Enki Bilal in Belgrade

26.July 2001 Zoran Penevski

Ash blue color

At the exhibition in the French Cultural Center, visitors had the opportunity to see boards, drawings and frames of Bilal's comics from all periods of his creativity. One of the world's greatest comic authors tells "Vreme" that Belgrade resembles the characters he likes to describe and portray in his comics. These are people who have stories that are difficult, violent, passionate, that are full of contradictions, but that are also developing, progressing, so - these are stories that change, without even seeing it."

Interview - Drago Senić, Qrve

18.July 2001 Anica Bojović

Defeat yourself

"The measure of the freedom of each of us is how much we are enemies of the system. The system does not want us as people, but as machines. Each person, by expressing his personality that is unfathomable, always new, original and imaginative, proves that the system can be defeated," says the singer and bassist of a cult Belgrade band

The New Life of Woody Allen

18.July 2001 Bogdan Tirnanic

Poor little swindler

The famous New York clarinetist, a hero of world culture, knew how to translate every detail of his intimate life into a film. Now the situation has changed: the films he makes return to his own life to be imitated

The awakening of domestic film

18.July 2001 Nebojsa Grujicic

Big save in the jungle

Can Serbia be made Hollywood? Apparently - difficult. But for consolation, it seems that the current government has decided to make our film a serious export item, at least to the extent that it is a sport.

Background of a dispute

12.July 2001 Biljana Srbljanović

Case number 008

Not even a day has passed since the forum was held in the Center for Cultural Decontamination on the occasion of the brutal beating of the participants of the gay parade, and already the favorite social game of transmission and interpretation, forgery and invention, searching for secret meanings and discovering the hidden motives of the participants in the conversation was heating up. Biljana Srbljanović's words about women on the public stage who advocate something that for her is "on the verge of prostitution and on the other hand advocate for physical extermination, or a pseudo-philosophical advocacy of a return to Christianity which implies the destruction of those who are not Christians or those who do not follow the dogma that are they have drawn for themselves" are twisted in the style of the mentioned party game as if one of the aforementioned was declared a prostitute. The call to "put people who advocate that kind of hatred on the pillar of shame" was easily interpreted as a call for lynching and stoning in the 21st century. As usually happens in similar situations, lawsuits, threats of lawsuits, threats, disclosure of secret membership cards and invasion of private life ensued. "I hear a lot more these days," Biljana Srbljanović describes for "Vreme". That I demand the lynching of single mothers, that I am an opponent of Serbia and Serbian Orthodoxy, that I endanger women without husbands, that I am pale and have thin lips. On the street, in passing, I also hear: "You're Serbian too, your mother's cunt, now I'm going to step on you!", and then: "See, I really didn't know you were a lesbian?" , also "What do you care about fags, mind your own business."

Interview - Michael Ignatieff

Light in the eyes

"I'm sure that there are many difficulties behind the smile. I think that this is the best Belgrade in the last fifteen years. I'm not saying that because I think the current government is wonderful, I don't think that it shouldn't be criticized..."

EXIT 2001

12.July 2001 Slobodan Vujanovic

Kozaracki road & rage

Until another exit is established, this one should be properly perceived as an already seen fair attraction of Eastern European countries. Finley Quaye is not Tricky, Tony Allen is not Fela Kuti, Max Romeo is Max Romeo as much as Joe Strummer & The Mescaleiros - The Clash, while Kosheen is not Basmenet Jaxx and Luke Slater is not Underworld, even though they are meant to be.

Film

04.July 2001 Maja Uzelac

Little Nicky

Director: Steven Brill; Cast: Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel

Theater - end of season

04.July 2001 Ivan Medenica

Account balance

In the season that just ended, hints of the separation of artistic from entertainment theater could be seen; this second type - commercial theater - is completely legitimate, but it has to slowly get used to the fact that in the coming period it will lose, in addition to financial aid from the state, intellectual support among the professional public

The shadow over Zdravko Čolić's concert

04.July 2001 Dragan Kremer

The triumph of the eternal bridegroom

The Good Boy of our scene, the all-Yugoslav City Neighbor, repeated his peak, but so did the pop scum that always goes along with it in the Balkans. It's easy to blame this scandal, if there's any accountability at all, on the soft drink vendors around here because they profited

Summer jazz festivals

27.June 2001 Vojislav Pantić

The sound of legends

Every festival with a long tradition has long since acquired a dominant profile, which determines the audience in the selection more than the list of participants

The new generation of Novi Sad Academy

27.June 2001 Sonja Ciric

An open soul

On the stage of the Belgrade Drama Theater with a play Visa Vida Ognjenović's class recently graduated. New names are coming to the domestic theater

Nick Hornby, writer Harmless egg

27.June 2001 Teofil Pančić

How to be mature

It was certainly worth stepping into Novo, escaping self-indulgent clichés, burning the remaining fossil traces Laddism, and try their hand at unobtrusively satirical observation of profound changes in society

Ksenija Radulović, director of the Museum of Theater Arts of Serbia

27.June 2001 Nebojsa Grujicic

It's easy to be cynical

There are times when, if you see yourself as even a responsible and thinking being, you no longer have the right to say that you really don't care and that it's none of your business

Branislava Anđelković, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art

27.June 2001 SK

We will bring back the audience.

"It is difficult not to exaggerate when describing the extreme neglect of this once key institution for modern art in the entire former Yugoslavia"