Camilla Grudova

Dec 1, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Camilla Grudova

Ways of seeing: an old cinema in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Credit: Alamy In the mid-2000s, the German author Esther Kinsky decided to reopen an old socialist cinema, or mozi, in a “half-abandoned” Hungarian town. She’d come across the building while travelling through the country; a famous projectionist, Deutsch Lászlo, used to visit and play films there for the locals. As Kinsky relates in Seeing Further, her book about the project and the demise of cinema across Europe – what she also sees...

Sep 5, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Camilla Grudova

Michel Houellebecq is one of France's best known and most controversial writers Credit: Andreu Dalmeu/EPA I first encountered Michel Houellebecq’s work through a film class in Montreal.

Aug 24, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Camilla Grudova

Pedro Almodóvar, Rossy de Palma and Verónica Forqué on the set of Kika (1993) Credit: EL DESEO SA I sometimes think of writers as film directors on smaller budgets. Their goal is much the same: to impart an image, a vision, to us.

Jun 2, 2024 | msn.com | Camilla Grudova

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Jun 2, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Camilla Grudova

Amy Twigg's debut is set in a commune in the North Downs Credit: Alamy Iris, our narrator, is a middle-class everywoman. She has broken up with a bland man called Nathan, and has suffered an average amount of family tragedy. She lives with her mother; she works in an off-licence.