by jkylegregory | Feb 19, 2025 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Highlights From the Gothenburg Film Festival 2025 Films from more than 80 countries were shown at this year’s film festival in my hometown Gothenburg. This year’s theme was defiance, the power of civil resistance. Filmmakers have taken risks sharing their story...
by jkylegregory | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles, Film, Rinus
My Best Films of 2024 I still owe you my list of the best films of the past year. It contains the films that I truly care about and continue to carry with me. The ones that I believe will stay relevant, because they open up important reflections and discussions in...
by jkylegregory | Dec 6, 2024 | Articles, Film, Rinus
The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky In May 2019 I made an attempt on the Nexus website to introduce the films of the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986). I presented a list of seven masterpieces he made between 1962 and 1986 and focused then on his film The...
by jkylegregory | Oct 23, 2024 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Green Border – Our humanitarian crisis Green Border by the Polish director Agnieszka Holland was awarded with the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Filmfestival. I had to wait till last week to watch this movie at our local cinema, where the film had its...
by jkylegregory | Sep 27, 2024 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Vengeance as a Dead-End Street – Two films of Robert Guédiguian ”The man who seeks vengeance is like a fly banging into a window failing to see that the door is wide open.” This old Armenian proverb comes on the screen at the end of the 2008 film Lady Jane from...
by jkylegregory | Jun 20, 2024 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Imagining Another World Every now and then I’ve written earlier about films that dramatize the working-class struggles when humanness is sacrificed on the altar of corporate and capitalist interests. The ones that come to mind are Two Days, One Night from 2014...
