All articles by Michael Brooke
František Vláčil: out of the past
The late Czech director František Vláčil is best known in the West for his visionary medieval epics. But there was more to him than that, argues this feature from our September 2010 issue.
By Michael Brooke
Sophie: A Murder in West Cork presents the facts of an ongoing Irish investigation
By Michael Brooke
“I’m only interested in honest stories”: people watching with Márta Mészáros
By Michael Brooke
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time is a brainteasingly ambiguous surgeon-stalker chiller
By Michael Brooke
Dear Comrades! uncovers a Khrushchev-era Soviet state massacre
By Michael Brooke
Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts
By James Bell, Tom Charity and others
We Are Who We Are lifts the lid on teenage identity crises
By Michael Brooke
The Painted Bird and the cinema of Eastern Europe’s WWII bloodlands
By Michael Brooke
10 great modern black-and-white films from eastern Europe
By Michael Brooke
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
Ian Holm obituary: an actor of many facets
By Michael Brooke
Where to stream the best Eastern European films
By Michael Brooke
Terry Jones obituary: the world’s funniest medieval historian
By Michael Brooke
The Ear is listening: Karel Kachyna and the resurrection of a banned classic
By Michael Brooke
Film of the week: That Summer, a palimpsest of Grey Gardens memories
By Michael Brooke
Milos Forman obituary: the bohemian who conquered Hollywood
By Michael Brooke
Károly Makk obituary: Hungarian director of subtle, incisive films
By Michael Brooke
Andrzej Wajda obituary: Poland’s man of memory
By Michael Brooke
Where to begin with Jerzy Skolimowski
By Michael Brooke
Where to begin with Agnieszka Holland
By Michael Brooke
10 great films from 1966
By Samuel Wigley, Christina Newland and others