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Warsaw 2017 Review: A BALKAN NOIR Delivers What It Promises
Bosnian-born and Swedish-based filmmaker Dražen Kuljanin delivers exactly what the title promises.
THE SAMURAI IN AUTUMN (JESEN SAMURAJA): Action RomCom From Serbia
Director Danilo Backovic may very well have delivered the first fight film from Serbia with The Samurai In Autumn (Jesen Samuraja), a film that aims to blend realistic karate and MMA action with comic melodrama and action. The story follows...
Charges against Sitges Festival & director Ángel Sala dropped
In 2010, the Sitges Film Festival and its director Ángel Sala were charged with exihibiting child pornography in connection with the screening of A Serbian Film. Today, newspaper El País is reporting that the charges have been dropped. The charges...
A SERBIAN FILM Review (DVD and MUFF11)
A Serbian Film has just been released on DVD in Australia and will be the opening night film at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF).An aging porn star agrees to participate in an 'art film' directed by an insane man,...
A SERBIAN FILM Due On Limited Edition Blu-ray From Invincible Pictures 10/25
Here we go. After it's brief theatrical run and appearance on VOD through FlixFling in the US, A Serbian Film is coming to home video on Blu-ray and DVD from independent distributor, Invincible Pictures. Invincible haven't made a formal announcement...
A Conversation With The US Distributors Of A SERBIAN FILM
[Our thanks to Dan Tabor for the following interview.]A few weeks ago there was a free screening of A Serbian Film in Philadelphia at the Prince Theater of the uncut festival print of the film being held by Invincible Pictures...
A SERBIAN FILM U.S. Release Details & Red Band Trailer
The most controversial movie of the last year is finally getting a US release. A Serbian Film was first shown at SXSW in March of 2010. Since then is has scarred audiences at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film...
A SERBIAN FILM Shocks Its Way Into Australian Retail
Accent Film brings to Australia one of the most controversial movies of the year. Surprisingly cleared by the OFLC, A Serbian Film is obviously R18+ and will be available to rent and buy this August.A retired porn actor who desperately needs money in...
The Sitges Festival And Director Angel Sala Charged With Exhibition Of Child Pornography For Screening A SERBIAN FILM
Some disturbing news out of Barcelona today with word that the Sitges Film Festival - one of the oldest, largest and most respected genre film events in the world - and its director, Angel Sala, have been charged with the...
A SERBIAN FILM Review
I've long been devoted to the notion that how you watch a film is as important as what you watch. Recommending films to other people is often far trickier than you may have bargained for - what you really...
A SERBIAN FILM Banned In San Sebastian
And the controversy continues around A Serbian Film, with word coming out that a judge in Spain has blocked a planned screening of the film at the San Sebastian Horror Festival. What makes this particularly peculiar is that the film...
Boozie Movies at PFF 2010: A SERBIAN FILM REVIEW
As you've probably read in a dozen other reviews of this already notorious film, one doesn't simply watch A Serbian Film passively, they experience it. It seems redundant at this point to post a detailed synopsis. So, what exactly is...
FrightFest And UK Distributor Revolver Comment On The BBFC's Demand Of Cuts To A SERBIAN FILM
In light of A Serbian Film being pulled from the Film4 FrightFest lineup at the last minute after the BBFC demanded nearly four minutes of cuts, UK distributor Revolver and FrightFest organizers have released a brief statement on the situation....
A SERBIAN FILM Pulled From Frightfest After BBFC Demands Cuts
Our own James Dennis is currently attending the Film4Frightfest, from whence he sent out this tweet via the official Twitch Twitter account (which you really should be following):A Serbian Film pulled from Frightfest after BBFC seek nearly 4 mins of...
Fantasia 2010: A SERBIAN FILM Review
[Certainly one of the most talked about films of the year amongst programmers other folks of extreme cinema, and very likely the reason that the Serbian Sidebar exists at Fantasia this year. Here is Todd's breathless account of the film...
Cannes 2010: A SERBIAN FILM Claims A Victim.
Cult sensation A Serbian Film has broken a distributor here in Cannes. While I'm still looking for specific details, I'm told that at this morning's screening in the Cannes market, one distributor was so disturbed by what they saw on...
SXSW 2010: A SERBIAN FILM Review
There is a part of me that feels sorry for Srdjan Spasojevic. He has, you see, just created a debut film that will linger in infamy. No matter what lies in the future for Spasojevic he will always be the...
Fantasia 2010 Announces SUBVERSIVE SERBIA!
Though Montreal's Fantasia Festival normally waits another month or two before announcing any titles this year they're jumping to it early with an announcement of their first spotlight program. And get ready because they're bringing A Serbian Film to Canada...
SXSW 2010: A SERBIAN FILM Theatrical Trailer Only Hints At The Depravity That Lurks Within ...
Does anybody else recall the uproar triggered by David Cronenberg's explicit meshing of sex and violence in 1996's Crash? Well, strap in kids, because Srdjan Spasojevic's debut feature A Serbian Film is about to take its North American bow at...
SXSW 2010: Sex And Violence In SERBIAN FILM
[At the Cannes festival in 2009 I stated publicly that I couldn't imagine a more transgressive film than Lars Von Trier's Antichrist coming down the line any time soon. Having had the chance since then to witness Serbian Film I...
