While acknowledging that " the politics of Underground have been assailed and dissected by international audiences ", she feels that " this debate is largely specious as there's no hidden agenda to this robust and not terribly subtle tale of duplicity with Mr. Kusturica's central idea being a daringly blunt representation of political chicanery that fools an entire society, and of the corruption that lets one man thrive at the expense of his dearest friend ".

Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence is Drvengrad, a town that was built for his film Life Is a Miracle, in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia.

Kamengrad is located only several kilometers from Kusturica's first town Drvengrad, in Serbia.

Describing the film as " manic, carnivalesque, and treating death as a minor ( and temporary ) inconvenience ", he enjoys Kusturica's portrayal of life on the Danube as " gritty, unforgiving and driven by a fully contemporary materialism " and furthermore commends " Kusturica's convincing portrayal of his homeland as a social and architectural ruin, where everything is either falling apart or overbuilt in misbegotten grandiosity ".

He went on to commend Black Cat, White Cats " earthy feel as well as its charm that lies in it lacking the polished glaze of most big budget features although being expertly filmed ", criticize its " tendency to run too long ", praise the performances of Bajram Severdzan " whose Matko is a likable rogue ", and Branka Katic " who has a luminous screen presence " before concluding that " while not a masterpiece, Kusturica's latest film is a real treat for those in search of a healthy dose of laughter set in a culture whose intricacies are rarely captured on film ".

One of the best examples is Maho, a father character in Emir Kusturica's 1981 coming-of-age drama Do You Remember Dolly Bell ?.

He is arguably best known for the role of the father in Emir Kusturica's 1985 film When Father Was Away on Business and as a tragic opportunist in 1995's Underground ( also by Kusturica ).

In the 1990s, Stojković cameoed in an ambitious, yet somewhat disappointing Crni bombarder ( The Black Bomber, 1992 ), and had minor roles in movies such as Emir Kusturica's Underground ( 1995 ) and Darko Bajić's Balkanska pravila ( The Rules of Balkan, 1997 ).

It was director Emir Kusturica's second such award after When Father Was Away on Business, making Kusturica one of only seven filmmakers to receive two Golden Palms.

Critics saw the characters Marko and Blacky as " Kusturica's idealization of Serbs trapped into desperate acts by history and others ' evil while the cowardly characters in the film were Croats and Bosnians, who chose betrayal and collaboration.

Geographically-challenged Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle embarrasses himself by summarizing Kusturica's movie as being about " a group of Gypsies in Slovenia on the banks of the Danube ".

The court case thus continued with Kusturica's lawyer Branislav Tapušković presenting details of the film's financing sources, most of which were French production companies.

On 11 December 2003, the municipal court ruled in Kusturica's favour, ordering Srbljanović to pay the damages as well as to cover the court costs.

The musician and composer Goran Bregović has created music for three of Kusturica's films: Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream, which featured Iggy Pop ; and Underground.

In 1998 the band composed the music for Emir Kusturica's film Black Cat, White Cat, which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival the same year.

Porizkova appeared in Emir Kusturica's 1993 film Arizona Dream, with Johnny Depp and Jerry Lewis, in a minor role as Lewis's young Polish fiancee.

Janet Maslin of the New York Times wrote a positive review, summing the film up as " a mad scramble through the Felliniesque realm of Mr. Kusturica's imagination ".

* In Emir Kusturica's movie Black Cat, White Cat, a character ( one of Dadan Karambolo's cronies ) reads Alan Ford throughout the film.

However, in 2004 he had the leading role in Emir Kusturica's Life Is a Miracle, some years after playing the role of a stutterer in the internationally acclaimed film Underground.

Writing in Sight & Sound in November 1996, British author Misha Glenny delivered a stinging attack on critics who view Pretty Village, Pretty Flame or Emir Kusturica's Underground through a simplistic, reductionist pro-or anti-Serb critical lens.

In 1993, he wrote an autobiography, J ' existe, je me suis rencontré, focusing on his youth, and in 2006 a more thorough one with journalist Gilles Verlant: Ma Vie-en-Vrac.

In the Magic Lantern autobiography Bergman writes of the film's iconic penultimate shot: " The image of the Dance of Death beneath the dark cloud was achieved at hectic speed because most of the actors had finished for the day.

Guerrero partly used this phrase in his autobiography Cheating Death, Stealing Life.

Höss wrote his autobiography while awaiting execution ; it was published in 1958 as and later as Death Dealer: the Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz ( among other editions ).

In Hart's autobiography, he noted that prior to his first major singles push, Pat Patterson asked if he could do a " Scorpion Death Lock ", which he did not know at the time.

Life and Death in Shanghai is an autobiography published in November 1987 by Nien Cheng () from exile in the United States which details Cheng's six-year imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution.

Yet he is right when he claims in his autobiography that he drew the real features of the man, his tender and selfless motives and his rugged fearless strength.

Kurosawa has commented on the lasting sense of loss he felt at his brother's death and the chapter of his autobiography that describes it — written nearly half a century after the event — is titled, " A Story I Don't Want to Tell.

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

An autobiography ( from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write ) is an account of the life of a person, written by its subject.

Closely associated with autobiography ( and sometimes difficult to precisely distinguish from it ) is the form of memoir.

John Henry Newman's autobiography ( first published in 1864 ) is entitled Apologia Pro Vita Sua in reference to this tradition.

Another autobiography of the period is De vita propria, by the Italian physician and astrologer Gerolamo Cardano ( 1574 ).

The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.

A memoir is slightly different in character from an autobiography.

One early example is that of Leonor López de Córdoba ( 1362 – 1420 ) who wrote what is supposed to be the first autobiography in Spanish.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a well-known modern example of fictional autobiography.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version.

*" The course of life is unpredictable ... no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Lerner wrote in his autobiography ( as quoted by The New York Times ): " All I can say is that if I had no flair for marriage, I also had no flair for bachelorhood.

Caligula's sister, Agrippina the Younger, wrote an autobiography that certainly included a detailed explanation of Caligula's reign, but it too is lost.

In his autobiography, Freedom In Exile, he states that if Tibet is not free, he " will reincarnate elsewhere.

His films include To Hell and Back, the autobiography of Audie Murphy, who is considered the most decorated soldier in the military history of the United States ; John Wayne's war film The Green Berets ( 1968 ), and opposite Gregory Peck in the space story Marooned about three stranded astronauts.

This is how Wright described, in his autobiography, the influence of these exercises on his approach to design: " For several years I sat at the little Kindergarten table-top.

Douglass ' best-known work is his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845.

* Robert Graves ' novel I, Claudius is written as a recently-discovered autobiography penned by the late Emperor.

With the help of a New York writer, he is working on an autobiography.

Helen reflects upon this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating " that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.