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Top 10 Soviet movies and cartoons that found audiences beyond the Iron Curtain Elem Klimov/Mosfilm, 1985 “Don’t teach me how to live, help me financially instead,” Lyudmila, the go-getter character in ‘Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears’ famously said with a winning smile. In case you missed it, we’ve come up with a list of Soviet movies and animated classics that have won the hearts and minds of international audiences. 1.‘Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!’ (19...

Print Neither agonizing nor ecstatic, but solidly cinematic, Andrei Konchalovsky’s Michelangelo biopic “Sin” sees the veteran Russian filmmaker tackling the mystery of genius with what might be described as sumptuous grit. It’s a Renaissance-era recreation that looks both lavish and hard, bracketed in a sense by the infinite gaze from the Italian alps at one extreme and at the other, the everyday dodge in Florentine or Roman streets of emptied waste buckets; in between, amidst popes and...

Based on a memoir by famous Russian explorer Vladimir Arseniev, Dersu Uzala (1975) is a heartwarming adventure tale exploring the unlikely friendship between a man of civilization and a man of the wilderness. On a mission to map the Russian Far East, Arseniev encounters Dersu Uzala, a hunter and member of the Goldi people, from whom he learns much about the strange courtesies of life in the wild, based on a respect for all beings. But while this heartfelt friendship is not defeated by profound...

International Film Festival of Rotterdam: In Dear Comrades!, Andrei Konchalovsky’s record of the Novocherkassk massacre What is the real “truth” behind the Novocherkassk massacre? Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovskys latest film — premiering at International Film Festival of Rotterdam — explores this in detail. Baradwaj Rangan February 06, 2021 13:41:28 IST Andrei Konchalovsky has ha...

© Sergey Bogomyakov/Dreamstime.com Moscow’s documented history reaches back to the 12th century, though there is evidence of prehistoric habitation of the site. These seven paintings are just a small sampling of the city’s equally rich and varied cultural heritage. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. The Old Testament Trinity (c. 1410...

Of course, arch-conservative leanings are hardly unusual for Russian cultural figures who get exported abroad, though they are rarely recognized as such in different social climes further West. The problem is that Konchalovsky, who peaked as a director around Runaway Train in 1985, no longer displays the talent to back them up. This is how he articulates the ambitions of Dear Comrades!: It’s in black and white and Academy ratio. If it looks like an award-winning art film, then, by golly, it...

Last modified on Sun 17 Jan 2021 04.48 EST Veteran film-maker, screenwriter, theatre and TV director Andrei Konchalovsky’s career is nothing if not eclectic. He co-wrote Tarkovsky’s 1966 classic Andrei Rublev, while his directorial CV ranges from an acclaimed 1970 adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya to Venice prize winners The Postman’s White Nights and Paradise, Runaway Train Tango & Cash, from which he was removed mid-shoot. Konchalovsky’s latest (once again feted...

“You’ve got to pick what you think is important in this world and make sure it survives”: Richard Linklater on sharing the gospel of cinema For our My Dream Palace campaign, the Austin, Texas filmmaker remembers his life at the movies, from his formative film-going experiences to the generations of congregants he has brought in to the Austin Film Society. 30 December 2020 Richard Linklater on stage at the Austin Film Society © Charles Ramirez-Berg I’m not a super religiou...

We invest so much energy cleaning up before and after holiday festivities. This year, we have also invested an exceptional amount of effort and energy sanitizing ourselves and things with which we come into contact. Perhaps there are even moments as we clean and sanitize during this holiday season in our secular age that we unconsciously yearn for the sacred domain of seemingly primitive times, reminiscent of Mircea Eliade’s book All this stood out to me as I have been reading through Leviti...

Today. Tuesday, 22 December 2020. I had a brief exchange on social media over a tweet I put out. It was a delightful exchange among friends. Someone mentioned Sylvia Plath, the confessional poet. My thoughts ran like a rhizome, as thoughts do, about my own writing, about all the times I have sat down to write, and just how difficult it is to write in what is essentially my second language – one which I effectively taught myself in my very late teens. Also, the main formal university instructi...