Matic Majcen

is film editor at the Slovenian journal Dialogi.

Articles

Abandoned cinema

Cancelling 21st century fossils

Roman Polanski's slow fall from grace

It took the film industry over four decades to oust Roman Polanski after he drugged and raped a child. The case, as well as other allegations, has long been known to the public, but a cultural shift was necessary for the director to face professional consequences.

Cover for: The second transition

The second transition

How Slovenia’s drivers reveal a deeper truth about their society

Perhaps selfish driving isn’t just an irritating character flaw. It could indicate the need for a wider change in social attitudes.

It will soon be 500 years since the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia and the birth of a concept that has retained its grip on the imagination ever since. Matic Majcen turns to the small village of Marinaleda in Andalusia, Spain in search of a contemporary utopian project.

Cover for: The importance of going to film festivals

A film critic without a film festival is no film critic at all, insists Matic Majcen, film editor for the Slovenian journal “Dialogi”. To be completely alone with the film and one’s opinion of it is a unique experience in a film world where advertising and promotion are becoming increasingly invasive.

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