I’ll be ranking them soon

yea i heard about that. I think it's wrong for that time period but guy changed. I guess you can trace the beginnings of that change in Underground tho.
There is a great article focusing on the political aspect of the film. https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc51.2009/Kusterica/
"the Balkan Wildman"
yeah this is a complex situation especially I think for a north American to fathom
interesting history on Yugoslavia that I didn't know helped make things clearer. Need to revisit Underground knowing this context.
propaganda machine for "yugoslavian unity" aka underground (still a great film), deep ties to serbian nationalists even though he's ethnically a bosnian muslim but converted to christianity (which is fine)
denies the bosnian genocide during the yugoslav wars (8300 dead)
he also held some kind of speech back in 2008 in serbia that caused a storming of the kosovo embassy
So he's rooting for all the countries that used to be under the Yugoslavian umbrella to get back there?
So he's rooting for all the countries that used to be under the Yugoslavian umbrella to get back there?
not sure, don't really think so. kosovo is a touchy subject for many balkan countries, but other than that I don't think anyone is seriously thinking of another yugoslavia.
in bosnia & herzegovina, there's a serbian federation (there are two more) and kusturica is politically involved with serbian nationalists in that area of bosnia as a political advisor to the president of that part. they want to become independent and merge together with serbia if im not mistaken
it's just that the trajectory of his filmmaking he went from being a universal voice of the yugos to serbs. underground came when the war was still going on to sort of remind people of the good ol "tito yugo days", which was the serbs wanted.
it's a tough subject and i don't know 10% about it. this is what happens when you have a pan-nationalist nation where you define yourself based on ethnicity or just religion even rather than nationality.
not sure, don't really think so. kosovo is a touchy subject for many balkan countries, but other than that I don't think anyone is seriously thinking of another yugoslavia.
in bosnia & herzegovina, there's a serbian federation (there are two more) and kusturica is politically involved with serbian nationalists in that area of bosnia as a political advisor to the president of that part. they want to become independent and merge together with serbia if im not mistaken
it's just that the trajectory of his filmmaking he went from being a universal voice of the yugos to serbs. underground came when the war was still going on to sort of remind people of the good ol "tito yugo days", which was the serbs wanted.
it's a tough subject and i don't know 10% about it. this is what happens when you have a pan-nationalist nation where you define yourself based on ethnicity or just religion even rather than nationality.
Yeah if you got 10% I probably have about 2%
It's hard to quantify or define but I noticed the later films had a sort of perceptible lack of heart and brains compared to the earlier stuff and, like arujis article said, played up the more ridiculous "Baltic Wildman" aspects of the culture maybe. Even from here I could notice the embracing of stereotypes and should have known there was maybe an agenda there.
F***in Bosnian Serbs always startin s***
word to the wise, remember pearl harbour
Interesting #1
People on Sunday bored me to tears but at least the brunette was cute
did they accidentally get a shot of a russian gangster tho
looks like a Vor

did they accidentally get a shot of a russian gangster tho
looks like a Vor

100% prison/vor tats
ayooo

My list for the year 1930
1. Zemlya
2. The Blue Angel
3. The Dawn Patrol
4. The Big Trail
5. L'Age d'Or
6. City Girl
7. Morocco
8. Little Lise
9. A propos de Nice
10. Abraham Lincoln
11. All Quiet On the Western Front
12. The Criminal Code
13. Animal Crackers
14. People on Sunday
15. Hell's Angels
HM: Virgin Lips, Men Without Women, That Night's Wife, Westfront 1918, Monte Carlo, Salt for Svanetia
Pretty much watched all of these except for Dawn Patrol which I still can't find
torrent won't finish rather
My 1930 faves:
1. Morocco
2. City Girl
3. Earth
4. "À propos de Nice"
5. L'age d'Or
6. The Blue Angel
7. Walk Cheerfully
8. Men Without Women
9. That Night's Wife
10. I Flunked, But...
Wish I had that silent ozu set
Pretty much watched all of these except for Dawn Patrol which I still can't find
torrent won't finish rather