Annual film festival started in Vilnius
Spring has sprung and Kino pavasaris” (or Cinema spring) has begun. This year the motto of the Festival is “Reborn at the Cinema” and from March 18 to April 2 you are all invited to rediscover the...
View ArticleFilm directors to watch
Who are the film directors to watch for the future coming out of central and eastern Europe? That’s the question that the Kino Pavasaris jury will be asking as they evaluate the films of the film...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the Vilnius International Film Festival
Džiugas Matulevičius | The Lithuania Tribune Kino Pavasaris is beginning! Vilnius International Film Festival, the single biggest cinematic event of the year is once again upon us, and all of the...
View ArticleVilnius Film Festival opens with “Carnage” (“Kivirčas”)
Džiugas Matulevičius | the Lithuania Tribune This Roman Polanski film, quite openly based on a play, opens the Vilnius International Film Festival today. This comedy is quite dark, and yet very...
View ArticleVilnius Film Festival: Wild Bill / Pašėlęs Bilas (2011)
Džiugas Matulevičius | the Lithuania Tribune The new British drama Wild Bill had its premiere in Vilnius International Film Festival this Friday, displaying an impressive sensitivity to the subject...
View ArticleVilnius Film Festival: Another Earth / Antroji Žemė (2011)
Džiugas Matulevičius | the Lithuania Tribune Another Earth, thinly veiled in a science-fiction metaphor, is a very sensitive film about redemption. The thought experiment explored in this piece is,...
View ArticleVilnius Film Festival: Sidewalls / Gyvenimo sienos (2011)
Sidewalls is very genuinely touching, funny, and smart romantic comedy. The characters at one point watch Woody Allen’s brilliant film Manhattan during one scene, and the comparison is actually quite...
View ArticleVilnius Film Festival: Even the Rain / Jie parduoda net lietų (2010)
Džiugas Matulevičius | the Lithuania Tribune Even the Rain, a film about the making of a fictional film, does a great job at making film admirers question their passion. It ultimately is about the...
View ArticleVilnius Film Festival: Dimensions / Matmenys (2011)
Džiugas Matulevičius | the Lithuania Tribune There are different kinds of independent films. There is the kind that, despite not being made by an established studio, still take enormous resources. The...
View ArticleVilnius Film Festival — conclusion
Džiugas Matulevičius | the Lithuania Tribune So the festival is finally over. After two weeks of crying, laughing, and gasping at images on the screen, the filmgoers can finally exhale after such an...
View ArticleIn Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris” – a special gift for...
Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris”, that each year brings the carefully selected films, which won prizes in the best known film festivals, this year has a special surprise for the...
View ArticleVilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris” (“Cinema Spring”)
The Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris” is the biggest and most important cinema event in Lithuania. The festival was established in 1995 and now that seventeen years have passed it...
View ArticleKino Pavasaris Intro: My Top 10 Must-See Movies
Dziugas Matulevicius | The Lithuania Tribune Once again, Kino Pavasaris is right around the corner, and I, for one, couldn’t be more excited. The range of films offered at the festival, now in its 18th...
View ArticleRuby Sparks review – Kino Pavasaris festival
Džiugas Matulevičius | The Lithuania Tribune Taking on a genre which has been characterized primarily by male wish fulfillment, Ruby Sparks, written by the female lead of the film, Zoe Kazan, instead...
View ArticleDocumentary films at Kino Pavasaris
Džiugas Matulevičius | The Lithuania Tribune There are many interesting documentaries in the Kino Pavasaris program this year, and yesterday I saw three of them, that dealt with three very distinct...
View ArticleThe Master – Kino Pavasaris festival review
Džiugas Matulevičius | The Lithuania Tribune I can’t pretend to understand or appreciate The Master fully. What comes through immediately in viewing the film, however, is that it is a film of...
View Article“Lithuanian film industry is going through transformation, but the future is...
Linas Jegelevičius | the Lithuania Tribune Lithuania still needs to do a good deal of catching up with Latvia and Estonia in charting more foreign cinema waters, insists Algirdas Ramaška, executive...
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