Whenever my native country’s people win awards and receive accolades, I feel immensely proud and happy. Alexander Sokurov has won the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival f...
These films have long been deemed classical, and their directors are counted among the geniuses of modern cinema – but nothing stopped the Novosibirsk authorities to close down a local film thea...
The 4-mins short about a man whose life quite literally spirals downwards at a neck-breaking speed was once selected for Sundance Film Festival programme. This appears to be a story of a suddenly inad...
I continue showing you Russian films, songs, and the work of outstanding Russian actors and directors that are available online. Previously I already told the story of El Poema de las Danzas that was ...
Before Paris, Je T’Aime was ever conceived, Claude Lelouch declared his love for all three at once – a city, the cinema, and a woman. As the note at the start of his short film says, the f...
Ray Bradbury It may be coincidental or not, but Russians must have a particularly soft spot for the American sci-fi classical author. How can you otherwise explain the fact that yet another screen ada...
The crisis that has befallen Russian cinema since the late 1980s is about to get deeper. Certain secret documents have surfaced that indicate that Lenfilm, Russia’s oldest and world-famous film ...
Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’ to Open 49th New York Film Festival – indieWIRE by Brian Brooks The North American premiere of Roman Polanski’s latest film, “Carnage,” will open the...
I have recently discovered one of Roman Polanski’s earliest works – it is a 1959 short, Gdy Spadają Anioły (When Angels Fall). You may already notice his interest in the neurotic, the funn...
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn’t an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole wor...