The Friday Circle

The third annual Hungarian film festival in London has begun at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. The theme of this year’s festival is migration. For more information, visit the website Check the Gate.

Posted on June 25th, 2010 under Events, Film. Comments: None

Csaba Bollók’s 2007 film ‘Iska utazása’ (Iska’s Journey) is being screened at 7 pm on Saturday 25 April at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, as part of the East End Film Festival. The double bill screening also includes a Q&A with the director, and Valeriya Gai Germanika’s 2008 film ‘Everybody Dies But Me’. ’Iska utazása’ is a documentary-like [...]

Posted on April 20th, 2009 under Events, Film. Comments: None

The Hungarian Cultural Centre’s first film festival, ‘Check the Gate: Our 21st Century’ begins today, at the Curzon Mayfair. Coinciding with the centenary of the birth of Hungarian cinema, the festival celebrates the best of contemporary Hungarian cinema, and showcases features by Kornél Mundruczó, Bendek Fliegauf, György Pálfi, Csaba Bollók, Ferenc Török, Diana Groó, and [...]

Posted on June 26th, 2008 under Arts, Events, Film. Comments: None

KinoKultura, the online journal of Russian cinema, dedicates its February 2008 issue to Hungarian cinema. Edited by Catherine Portugues, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, it includes interviews with István Szabó and Gyula Gazdag, thematic essays, and reviews.

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 under Film, General. Comments: None

On 2 November, students and teaching staff watched Károly Makk’s 1971 film Szerelem, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year, and arguably one of the greatest Central European films of all time. Two short stories by Tibor Déry (1896-1977) form the basis of Szerelem, for which Déry also wrote the [...]

Posted on December 3rd, 2007 under Arts, Film, Hungarian studies, Literature. Comments: None