Film genres

Festival brings film soleil, rediscovered horror film

Ljubljana – This year’s Festival of Genre Film, dedicated to film soleil, an offshoot of film noir, will get under way tonight with a screening of John Sturges’s Bad Day at Black Rock at Kinodvor cinema in Ljubljana. Another highlight will be a screening of The Amusement Park, a rediscovered film by the horror visionary George A. Romero.

All-Black ‘The Harder They Fall’ busts Western cowboy myths

Jay-Z has said that his new Western movie "The Harder They Fall" aims to correct misconceptions that all cowboys were white, wore ponchos and listened to "Italian guitar music."

The U.S. rap superstar is a producer on the Netflix revenge drama starring Idris Elba and Regina King among an all-Black ensemble, as real and once-famous characters from the Old West.

Ethnographic Film Festival | To December 6

In its 11th edition, the now-online Ethnographic Film Festival brings 40 fiction and documentary films from around the world that offer glimpses into little-known societies and communities, address hot-button issues - such as Brexit, which is one of the sections, and climate change - push the boundaries of the medium or show us what young filmmakers are up to.

Experimental | Athens | March 15-17

Eight acts from the experimental music scenes of Athens and Berlin have been invited by the Goethe Institute in Athens to provide musical accompaniment for a selection of avant-garde films from the 1910s and 20s by Ernst Lubitsch and Walter Ruttmann. The screenings on March 15, 16 and 17 start at 8.30 p.m. and admission is free of charge.

'Bask?n:' A genre-bending breath of fresh air in Turkish horror cinema

"Fulci on crack!" was the verdict by Eli Roth, the cult American horror director, of Turkish director Can Evrenol's debut feature "Bask?n" (Raid), comparing Evrenol to Lucio Fulci, the late Italian director, the so-called "Godfather of Gore." The Lincoln Center Film Society said, "A wildly original whatsit that reconfirms Turkey as the breakout national cinema of the moment."