Editorial

  • To Hear Children Weeping in a Photograph

    To Hear Children Weeping in a Photograph

    PHOTOGRAPHY: The journalistic war photos that we have, unfortunately, seen so frequently in recent months are primarily meant to inform us about the conflict. However, they often strive to take on a subjective character and become political actors. Photographs of suffering children play a special role in this transformation. What role?

  • The displaced narrator

    The displaced narrator

    VIEWS: Personal essay films are growing in impact and meaning.

  • Blindspots: Michael Winterbottom’s ‘Dark Matter: Independent Filmmaking in the 21st Century’

    Blindspots: Michael Winterbottom’s ‘Dark Matter: Independent Filmmaking in the 21st Century’

    VIEWS: Beginning with a flawed premise, British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom's book of interviews does not provide the full picture.

  • Land for us all – or for no one?

    Land for us all – or for no one?

    Crossing Europe: Four films that take a multifaceted look at the economic, ecological, and social importance of land.

  • The warlike mindset

    The warlike mindset

    UKRAINE: What is it about our modern way of life that promotes such hostility and military - technological «solutions»?

  • NATO, Russia, and Ukraine in Modern Documentary

    NATO, Russia, and Ukraine in Modern Documentary

    With today’s news, Modern Times Review has put together an ongoing list of documentaries featured across our pages highlighting the conflict from all its angles. Put together over the years from our team of writers, we look at the film’s highlighting Ukraine dynamics on the ground and in a constant struggle, Russian justification for its…

  • A cruel game by Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, exposed

    A cruel game by Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, exposed

    HISTORY: Nina Gladitz’s film about Roma and Sinti survivors of Shoah has been hidden in the WDR archive since 1982. Reactions to her book show we live in times when searching for the truth and giving voice to the weakest in societysociety causes suspicion, not respect. But simply accepting that such are the times might…

  • Film editing – classical or not?

    Film editing – classical or not?

    Editorial: After 40 years as film editor, Niels Pagh Andersen now has written an inspiring book combined with video interviews with 8 filmmakers. What did he learn on this long voyage?

september, 2026

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