In memoriam: David Lynch (1946–2025) 22.January 2025. Zoran Jankovic The king of the bizarre had to move on... Lynch was a man of ideas and impulses, above all the creative one, a light that unfailingly tends towards darkness as its true measure and true value, and flattering terms such as the one with which the media were often able to adorn him are still not enough to express his importance and unusualness
Dilemmas: character and/or work 22.January 2025. Bratislav Nikolic The lightness of condemnation, the gravity of sin Art is often seen as timeless, but the role of the author is never completely invisible. While some artists are "cancelled" permanently, others manage to keep part of the audience or even renew their careers. This is precisely what shows how slippery the issue of separating the character and the work of the artist is
Theater 22.January 2025. Marina Milivojević Madjarev Putting together the fragments of life Mina Petrić: Oblivion, brook, snake's eyes; directed by Tara Mitrović; Serbian National Theater
Books 22.January 2025. Ivan Milenkovic Ill-mannered, vile, genius brat Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Selected letters N. R. F.-u (1931–1961), translated by Bojan Savić Ostojić; Zepter, Belgrade, 2024. Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Steering, translated by Gordan Breberin; LOM/Laguna, Belgrade, 2024.
Cinema: Better man 22.January 2025. Zoran Jankovic Evolution in the guise of a chimpanzee Better man is certainly a huge step forward on the path to full authorial daring, which in turn cannot be an end in itself
Film premiere: A complete stranger (A Completely Unknown) 22.January 2025. Zorica Kojić and Dragan Ambrozić Sons and daughters are no longer under your command Bob Dylan is not a sinner, he is an irresistible righteous man. If he ever left anyone in the lurch, it was himself. But let's take a closer look! Those mental binoculars that he pointed at the strange tunes of imaginary bluesman Jesse Moffett (played by Big Bill Morganfield, son of the legendary Muddy Waters) on Pete Seeger's TV show Rainbow Quest - at least as the current film tells us A complete stranger directed by James Mangold - he was involved in it since its inception. Self-born and absolutely independent, Bob Dylan received this cinematic achievement - not a monument, but a living legend of himself as a folk deity who changed pop culture and rock 'n' roll forever.
The Ang Lee Phenomenon 15.March 2001. Bogdan Tirnanic The touch of a woman At the repeated call of his childhood fantasies, a "great artist", appreciated and celebrated all over the world, became an "author" in the ancient sense of the term - someone who makes films out of other films
Everyday life 15.March 2001. Mihajlo Pantić A shower of hypergeneralization Where is the desired harmony, where is the dreamed balance?
Theater 15.March 2001. Ivan Medenica Unpleasant confrontations Ljubomir Simović: Traveling theater Šopalović; director Kokan Mladenović, National Theatre
Controversies surrounding the collection from the Banovina building 15.March 2001. Nebojsa Grujicic Confirmation of the Balkan rules Out of almost three hundred works compared to the previous census, about forty paintings are missing. Among them are the works of Jovan Bijelić and Aleksandar Petrov, but there is no question that Paja Jovanović's paintings were stolen because they were not even in this collection.
15.March 2001. Miroslav Pantić, President of the Management Board of the Ivo Andrić Endowment Thanks to Miroslav Karaulac The letter sent to Miroslav Karaulac by the Management Board of the Ivo Andrić Endowment regarding the "Manuscripts from the Box" published in the magazine "Sveske" was sent to the address of "Vremena":
Overview of the week Special Forces Belly Dance Why is the belly dance of special forces at a show competition in Dubai so important in Serbia and similar authoritarian countries? It will have to do with media and other freedoms Philip Schwarm
Comment Happy New Year to everyone celebrating Manja Grcic comes to RTS with the image of a peasant - between journalism, loyalty to the regime and big capital, she always chose the other two Nemanja Rujevic
Overview of the week Life in a mafia state What are the similarities and differences between a classic mafia family and a mafia state? What role does Capo di tutti capi play in both cases? And where is Serbia? Philip Schwarm
