StudioCine Live revue de press
Studio Cine Live, September-17-2013 (fr.)
"Ce voyage initiatique au coeur de la grande mise en scène dirigée par Tito, ce réalisateur sans caméra, prouve qu'il y a de bons restes dans ce qu'était le cinéma yougoslave. Le savoir-faire de Mila Turajlic en est la plus belle preuve. "
"Il était une fois en Yougoslavie : Cinema Komunisto" : souvenirs d'une dictature cinéphile
Le Monde, September-17-2013 (fr.)
Cinema Komunisto retrace, en un peu plus d’une heure et demie, l’histoire du cinéma yougoslave, c’est-à-dire l’histoire d’un art et d’une culture qui furent liés, de façon organique, au pouvoir politique. Mais la liaison du cinéma et de l’Etat aura été en Yougoslavie quelque chose de singulier, un peu comme le « socialisme » de Tito avait été une expérience un peu particulière, irréductible.
Telerama revue de presse
Telerama, September-18-2013 (fr.)
"En assemblant, dans un montage virtuose, extraits, archives inédites et entretiens avec les anciens protagonistes du « kino » des Balkans, la documentariste décortique l'édification d'un mythe politique en 35 mm."
The Times gives 4 stars to Cinema Komunisto
The Times, November-23-2012 (eng.) ★★★★
"This exhaustively researched and elegantly edited documentary explores the cinematic legacy of the former Yugoslavia."
Dazed.com; DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK
Dazed & Confused, November-23-2012 (eng.) "
Actors, producers, secret police and Tito’s personal projectionist describe eccentric, fact-meets-fiction stories – including using the country’s entire armed forces for celluloid battle scenes, and Tito’s hiring of Richard Burton to play himself in a biopic."
Cinema Komunisto Review
Little White Lies, Nov-23-2012 (eng.)
"The heady days of the Yugoslav film industry during the Tito years makes for a highly entertaining slab of social, political and cinematic history... An informative, funny and tragic account of a thriving national cinema that was killed off in its prime."
The Guardian review of Cinema Komunisto
Guardian, November-22-2012 (eng.)
"Her interviews are revealing: as industry survivors kick around the rusting, dusty infrastructure, what emerges is a region-specific form of nostalgia for a time when the Balkan states played on the very same soundstage."
Time Out review
Time Out London, Nov-21-2012 (eng.)
"a fascinating tale"
View London gives 4 stars to Cinema Komunisto
View London, Nov-21-2012 (eng.)
"A nostalgic, poignant documentary, Cinema Komunisto, with its stunning archival footage, is fascinating and enlightening...and a must-see for film fans"
A great documentary about the cinema of Yugoslavia
Total Film Magazine, Nov-19-2012 (eng.)
Yugoslavia, paradise on Earth, just a shame about the film
Guardian, Nov-16-2012 (eng.)
"the impressively succinct and comprehensive Cinema Komunisto earns laughs"
London Archive Film Festival: Cinema Komunisto
New Empress Magazine, May-14-2012, (eng.)
Jugoslavija je bila ilizuja
Kisobran, May-2012 (srp.)
In Serbian political past, filmmaker finds art
Yale Daily New, Mar-21-12, (eng.)
Cinema Komunisto - Mila Turajlić and Tito light up Berlin's silver screen
Berlin Goes Balkan, Mar-5-12, (eng.) Links to audio recording of audience Q&A
Balkans reclaim a place in cinema
International Herald Tribune, Dec-29-11, (eng.)
"While it might be premature to claim that there is a second New Wave of western Balkan cinema (the first new wave — or “Novi Film” — movement happened in Yugoslavia in the 1960s), it can be said that a large group of talented young filmmakers from the region are making an impact on the international film circuit." (click here to download pdf)
Cinema Komunisto: Living in Tito's Vision
Daily News Egypt, Dec-16-2011 (eng.)
"Turajlic’s powerful documentary excels in its task and will keep audiences riveted from start to finish."
This is a Story about a Country that Exists Only in Films
Stanfrod Arts Review, Oct-26-2011 (eng.)
"an insightful look into how tightly cinema was sown into not only the Communist identity of the Second Yugoslav republic, but its very existence."
A U.N. for Film
Metro, Oct-19-2011 (eng.)
"SHOW IT AGAIN, LEKA: Tito was constructing a Communist dream as sturdy as a movie set's false front. But we get a different angle as well—all cinematic Babylons, from D.W. Griffith's on down, seem doomed to rot. All that's left is what we see here: pageantry, epics, accordions and footage of Tito gleaming in his cult of personality, gilded with fool's gold."
Cinema Komunisto review
Agony and Ecstasy, Oct-10-2011 (eng.)
"One of the spriest documentaries about a film industry that I have seen, ...Cinema Komunisto as a whole is smart and insightful"
Cinema Komunisto finds life among the ruins
North Shore News, Oct-7-2011 (eng.)
Our guide to the 2011 Chicago International Film Festival
Chicago Reader, Oct-6-2011 (eng.)
Chicago's famous Chicago Reader features Cinema Komunisto in their festival review!
Film beogradske redateljice mogao bi bolje proći u kinima u Hrvatskoj nego u Srbiji
Jutarnji List, Oct-04-2011 (hr.) Review by famous Croatian film critic, Nenad Polimac.
Aplauzi za "Cinema Komunisto" u Zagrebu
Blic, Sep-30-2011 (srp.)
Redateljica Mila Turajlić: Moj film je bunt, a ne jugonostalgija
Vecernji list, Sep-29-2011 (hr.)
Cineaste reviews - Cinema Komunisto
Cineaste Magazine, Fall-2011 (eng.)
"...Turajlic stays off-screen and spins the story deftly through editing alone, never clarifying which images are documentary and which come from fiction films. This, after all, is the point: Yugoslavia, like all political entities, was never real. Rather, it was created and sustained through communal narratives, which found an outlet in the propaganda films supported by Tito’s regime. Nation building is an enterprise of the imaginary, and this might apply not only to a faraway federation that fell apart in the Nineties, but also to a public waiting breathlessly for Captain America to open. After all, we all need heroes". (Review by Geogre Carstocea)
Balade en Yougonostalgie
Le Monde diplomatique, August-2011 (fr.)
Que représente ce sentiment, où se mêlent le regret d’un Etat puissant, respecté sur la scène internationale, et les souvenirs idéalisés d’un socialisme « à visage humain » ? (click here for Cinema Komunisto paragraph)
Cinema Komunisto - Jugoslavija kao zemlja snova u filmu
Showtime, Jul-26-2011 (hr.)
Rabat, grand angle
Le Soir, Jul-4-2011 (fr.)
Cinema Komunisto review
Forum, Jul-1-2011 (mak.)
Tita i prošlost sagledati bez ideološke ostrašćenosti
Vrijeme, May-28-2011 (srb.)
Variety review
Variety, May-25-2011 (eng.)
SFIFF 54 - Cinema Komunisto
BeyondChron.org, May-4-2011 (eng.)
This delightful film recounts how [the] country’s film industry became both an instrument and a source of Yugoslavian pride.
Film Under a Dictatorship
Salon.com, May-2-2011 (eng.)
‘Cinema Komunisto’ brilliantly keeps Yugoslava alive on film
New Jersey Newsroon, April-27-2011 (eng.)
A movie whose very existence confirms and deepens its point, "Cinema Komunisto" brilliantly retells the story of a country through its films... This surprising documentary from first-time director, Serbian Mila Turajlić, has claimed its place among this year's strongest entries. Mila Turajlić and the Tribeca Film Festival are upholding what Bulajić calls the first law of the cinema, honesty. "Cinema Komunisto" keeps a time and place alive on film.
Anthems for Dead Nations
Capital New York, April-25-2011 (eng.)
Highlights from the Tribeca Festival
The Atlantic, April-25-2011 (eng.)
"In many ways Tribeca has snagged the ultimate festival film in Cinema Komunisto. Like [Cameron Crowe's] The Union, Turajlic's documentary has a deep fondness for a bygone era, but it's definitely worth "checking in" to.
TFF '11: Making Movies in Communist Era Yugoslavia
Screen Comment, April-23-2011 (eng.) "Cinema Komunisto” is still one of the most riveting, well-researched, elegantly-rendered chronicles of a fallen era to ever be captured on film—and a must-see for film aficionados.
Tribeca Q & A: Mila Turajlic on ‘Cinema Komunisto’
New York Times, April-21-2011 (eng.)
Better Movies, Less Hoopla - Tribeca Finds Its Footing
Village Voice, Apr-20-2011 (eng.)
Mila Turajlic eulogizes a defunct society by exhuming its once-thriving film culture in this elegantly constructed memory machine.. Cinema, like the state that commissioned it, was a magnificent illusion, but is mourned all the same.
Cinema Komunisto reviewSlant Magazine, April-14-2011 (eng.)
Sva ludila su dragocenae-novine, April-6-2011 (srb.)
Meet the 2011 Tribeca Filmmakers | “Cinema Komunisto” Director Mila Turajlicindiewire, April-6-2011 (eng.)
Tribeca Features: Mila Turajlic - Cinema KomunistoTribeca Film Festival, April-4-2011 (eng.)
Komunistični film, ki to pravzaprav niDnevnik.si, March-31-2011 (slovenian)
Cinema Komunisto interviewfucinemute.it, February-14-2011 (it.)
Jugoslavija na velikom ekranu: 'Cinema Komunisto' ili film o jednoj nestaloj državiNacional, February-11-2011 (hr.)
Da nam živi živi sanpopboks.com, February-11-2011 (srb.)
Život i propast „Holivuda Istoka”Politika, January-30-2011 (srb.)
Cinema Komunisto: Više od istorijee-novine.com, January-30-2011 (srb.)
Cela država kao jedna kulisaBlic, January-29-2011 (srb.)
Mila Turajlić: San o Holivudu na istokuNovosti, January-29-2011 (srb.)
Il cinema di Tito fan di John Wayne
La Repubblica, January-25-2011 (it.)
E Tito fece «traslocare» Hollywood in JugoslaviaCorriere della sera, January-23-2011 (it.)
Interview with Serbian Director Mila TurajlicCinema-Redux, December-30-2010 (eng.)
Cinema Komunisto review
Screen International, December-9-2010 (eng.)
“The fascinating and absorbing documentary Cinema Komunisto is a must for film fans.. quite wonderfully tracks the history of former Yugoslavia through its cinema.”
Titov filmski insajderPolitika, November-26-2010 (srb.)
Priče koje moraju da budu ispričaneBlic, November-24-2010 (srb.)
Dispatch from Amsterdam | Madoff, Tito & the Ghost of Little Edie Mark IDFA DebutsindieWIRE.com, November 20-2010 (eng.)
Tito's Yugoslaviarivetingpictures.com, November 18-2010 (eng.)
Tito, la diva e l’italianoOsservatorio Balcani e Caucasso, May-18-2010 (it.)
Cinema Komunisto osvaja svetNovosti, 2006 (srb.)
Studio Cine Live, September-17-2013 (fr.)
"Ce voyage initiatique au coeur de la grande mise en scène dirigée par Tito, ce réalisateur sans caméra, prouve qu'il y a de bons restes dans ce qu'était le cinéma yougoslave. Le savoir-faire de Mila Turajlic en est la plus belle preuve. "
"Il était une fois en Yougoslavie : Cinema Komunisto" : souvenirs d'une dictature cinéphile
Le Monde, September-17-2013 (fr.)
Cinema Komunisto retrace, en un peu plus d’une heure et demie, l’histoire du cinéma yougoslave, c’est-à-dire l’histoire d’un art et d’une culture qui furent liés, de façon organique, au pouvoir politique. Mais la liaison du cinéma et de l’Etat aura été en Yougoslavie quelque chose de singulier, un peu comme le « socialisme » de Tito avait été une expérience un peu particulière, irréductible.
Telerama revue de presse
Telerama, September-18-2013 (fr.)
"En assemblant, dans un montage virtuose, extraits, archives inédites et entretiens avec les anciens protagonistes du « kino » des Balkans, la documentariste décortique l'édification d'un mythe politique en 35 mm."
The Times gives 4 stars to Cinema Komunisto
The Times, November-23-2012 (eng.) ★★★★
"This exhaustively researched and elegantly edited documentary explores the cinematic legacy of the former Yugoslavia."
Dazed.com; DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK
Dazed & Confused, November-23-2012 (eng.) "
Actors, producers, secret police and Tito’s personal projectionist describe eccentric, fact-meets-fiction stories – including using the country’s entire armed forces for celluloid battle scenes, and Tito’s hiring of Richard Burton to play himself in a biopic."
Cinema Komunisto Review
Little White Lies, Nov-23-2012 (eng.)
"The heady days of the Yugoslav film industry during the Tito years makes for a highly entertaining slab of social, political and cinematic history... An informative, funny and tragic account of a thriving national cinema that was killed off in its prime."
The Guardian review of Cinema Komunisto
Guardian, November-22-2012 (eng.)
"Her interviews are revealing: as industry survivors kick around the rusting, dusty infrastructure, what emerges is a region-specific form of nostalgia for a time when the Balkan states played on the very same soundstage."
Time Out review
Time Out London, Nov-21-2012 (eng.)
"a fascinating tale"
View London gives 4 stars to Cinema Komunisto
View London, Nov-21-2012 (eng.)
"A nostalgic, poignant documentary, Cinema Komunisto, with its stunning archival footage, is fascinating and enlightening...and a must-see for film fans"
A great documentary about the cinema of Yugoslavia
Total Film Magazine, Nov-19-2012 (eng.)
Yugoslavia, paradise on Earth, just a shame about the film
Guardian, Nov-16-2012 (eng.)
"the impressively succinct and comprehensive Cinema Komunisto earns laughs"
London Archive Film Festival: Cinema Komunisto
New Empress Magazine, May-14-2012, (eng.)
Jugoslavija je bila ilizuja
Kisobran, May-2012 (srp.)
In Serbian political past, filmmaker finds art
Yale Daily New, Mar-21-12, (eng.)
Cinema Komunisto - Mila Turajlić and Tito light up Berlin's silver screen
Berlin Goes Balkan, Mar-5-12, (eng.) Links to audio recording of audience Q&A
Balkans reclaim a place in cinema
International Herald Tribune, Dec-29-11, (eng.)
"While it might be premature to claim that there is a second New Wave of western Balkan cinema (the first new wave — or “Novi Film” — movement happened in Yugoslavia in the 1960s), it can be said that a large group of talented young filmmakers from the region are making an impact on the international film circuit." (click here to download pdf)
Cinema Komunisto: Living in Tito's Vision
Daily News Egypt, Dec-16-2011 (eng.)
"Turajlic’s powerful documentary excels in its task and will keep audiences riveted from start to finish."
This is a Story about a Country that Exists Only in Films
Stanfrod Arts Review, Oct-26-2011 (eng.)
"an insightful look into how tightly cinema was sown into not only the Communist identity of the Second Yugoslav republic, but its very existence."
A U.N. for Film
Metro, Oct-19-2011 (eng.)
"SHOW IT AGAIN, LEKA: Tito was constructing a Communist dream as sturdy as a movie set's false front. But we get a different angle as well—all cinematic Babylons, from D.W. Griffith's on down, seem doomed to rot. All that's left is what we see here: pageantry, epics, accordions and footage of Tito gleaming in his cult of personality, gilded with fool's gold."
Cinema Komunisto review
Agony and Ecstasy, Oct-10-2011 (eng.)
"One of the spriest documentaries about a film industry that I have seen, ...Cinema Komunisto as a whole is smart and insightful"
Cinema Komunisto finds life among the ruins
North Shore News, Oct-7-2011 (eng.)
Our guide to the 2011 Chicago International Film Festival
Chicago Reader, Oct-6-2011 (eng.)
Chicago's famous Chicago Reader features Cinema Komunisto in their festival review!
Film beogradske redateljice mogao bi bolje proći u kinima u Hrvatskoj nego u Srbiji
Jutarnji List, Oct-04-2011 (hr.) Review by famous Croatian film critic, Nenad Polimac.
Aplauzi za "Cinema Komunisto" u Zagrebu
Blic, Sep-30-2011 (srp.)
Redateljica Mila Turajlić: Moj film je bunt, a ne jugonostalgija
Vecernji list, Sep-29-2011 (hr.)
Cineaste reviews - Cinema Komunisto
Cineaste Magazine, Fall-2011 (eng.)
"...Turajlic stays off-screen and spins the story deftly through editing alone, never clarifying which images are documentary and which come from fiction films. This, after all, is the point: Yugoslavia, like all political entities, was never real. Rather, it was created and sustained through communal narratives, which found an outlet in the propaganda films supported by Tito’s regime. Nation building is an enterprise of the imaginary, and this might apply not only to a faraway federation that fell apart in the Nineties, but also to a public waiting breathlessly for Captain America to open. After all, we all need heroes". (Review by Geogre Carstocea)
Balade en Yougonostalgie
Le Monde diplomatique, August-2011 (fr.)
Que représente ce sentiment, où se mêlent le regret d’un Etat puissant, respecté sur la scène internationale, et les souvenirs idéalisés d’un socialisme « à visage humain » ? (click here for Cinema Komunisto paragraph)
Cinema Komunisto - Jugoslavija kao zemlja snova u filmu
Showtime, Jul-26-2011 (hr.)
Rabat, grand angle
Le Soir, Jul-4-2011 (fr.)
Cinema Komunisto review
Forum, Jul-1-2011 (mak.)
Tita i prošlost sagledati bez ideološke ostrašćenosti
Vrijeme, May-28-2011 (srb.)
Variety review
Variety, May-25-2011 (eng.)
SFIFF 54 - Cinema Komunisto
BeyondChron.org, May-4-2011 (eng.)
This delightful film recounts how [the] country’s film industry became both an instrument and a source of Yugoslavian pride.
Film Under a Dictatorship
Salon.com, May-2-2011 (eng.)
‘Cinema Komunisto’ brilliantly keeps Yugoslava alive on film
New Jersey Newsroon, April-27-2011 (eng.)
A movie whose very existence confirms and deepens its point, "Cinema Komunisto" brilliantly retells the story of a country through its films... This surprising documentary from first-time director, Serbian Mila Turajlić, has claimed its place among this year's strongest entries. Mila Turajlić and the Tribeca Film Festival are upholding what Bulajić calls the first law of the cinema, honesty. "Cinema Komunisto" keeps a time and place alive on film.
Anthems for Dead Nations
Capital New York, April-25-2011 (eng.)
Highlights from the Tribeca Festival
The Atlantic, April-25-2011 (eng.)
"In many ways Tribeca has snagged the ultimate festival film in Cinema Komunisto. Like [Cameron Crowe's] The Union, Turajlic's documentary has a deep fondness for a bygone era, but it's definitely worth "checking in" to.
TFF '11: Making Movies in Communist Era Yugoslavia
Screen Comment, April-23-2011 (eng.) "Cinema Komunisto” is still one of the most riveting, well-researched, elegantly-rendered chronicles of a fallen era to ever be captured on film—and a must-see for film aficionados.
Tribeca Q & A: Mila Turajlic on ‘Cinema Komunisto’
New York Times, April-21-2011 (eng.)
Better Movies, Less Hoopla - Tribeca Finds Its Footing
Village Voice, Apr-20-2011 (eng.)
Mila Turajlic eulogizes a defunct society by exhuming its once-thriving film culture in this elegantly constructed memory machine.. Cinema, like the state that commissioned it, was a magnificent illusion, but is mourned all the same.
Cinema Komunisto reviewSlant Magazine, April-14-2011 (eng.)
Sva ludila su dragocenae-novine, April-6-2011 (srb.)
Meet the 2011 Tribeca Filmmakers | “Cinema Komunisto” Director Mila Turajlicindiewire, April-6-2011 (eng.)
Tribeca Features: Mila Turajlic - Cinema KomunistoTribeca Film Festival, April-4-2011 (eng.)
Komunistični film, ki to pravzaprav niDnevnik.si, March-31-2011 (slovenian)
Cinema Komunisto interviewfucinemute.it, February-14-2011 (it.)
Jugoslavija na velikom ekranu: 'Cinema Komunisto' ili film o jednoj nestaloj državiNacional, February-11-2011 (hr.)
Da nam živi živi sanpopboks.com, February-11-2011 (srb.)
Život i propast „Holivuda Istoka”Politika, January-30-2011 (srb.)
Cinema Komunisto: Više od istorijee-novine.com, January-30-2011 (srb.)
Cela država kao jedna kulisaBlic, January-29-2011 (srb.)
Mila Turajlić: San o Holivudu na istokuNovosti, January-29-2011 (srb.)
Il cinema di Tito fan di John Wayne
La Repubblica, January-25-2011 (it.)
E Tito fece «traslocare» Hollywood in JugoslaviaCorriere della sera, January-23-2011 (it.)
Interview with Serbian Director Mila TurajlicCinema-Redux, December-30-2010 (eng.)
Cinema Komunisto review
Screen International, December-9-2010 (eng.)
“The fascinating and absorbing documentary Cinema Komunisto is a must for film fans.. quite wonderfully tracks the history of former Yugoslavia through its cinema.”
Titov filmski insajderPolitika, November-26-2010 (srb.)
Priče koje moraju da budu ispričaneBlic, November-24-2010 (srb.)
Dispatch from Amsterdam | Madoff, Tito & the Ghost of Little Edie Mark IDFA DebutsindieWIRE.com, November 20-2010 (eng.)
Tito's Yugoslaviarivetingpictures.com, November 18-2010 (eng.)
Tito, la diva e l’italianoOsservatorio Balcani e Caucasso, May-18-2010 (it.)
Cinema Komunisto osvaja svetNovosti, 2006 (srb.)