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July 18, 2025 All Aboard 🚂 Ela Bittencourt reports from Karlovy Vary 2025; Peter Tscherkassky interviewed; and more View in browser   |   filmcomment.com July 18, 2025 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers, Trains have always had a special affinity with cinema. As Ela Bittencourt notes in her report from the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which opens today's Letter, both are 19th-century technological innovations that enabled "time and space travel." One of Ela's highlights from this year's edition of the Czech festival, Maciej Drygas's archival epic Trains , layers the histories of film and railways to explore the disillusionment of European youth facing unresolved cycles of historical violence. The recursions of a painful past also preoccupied many of her other favorites in the lineup, including Bill Morrison's latest found-footage film Ghost of the Past , experimental documentary Action... read