Russian Film Masterpieces
Monday, January 28, 2008
Hear about Russia’s best films from the last century, from Aleksandr Sokurov to the 1925 film "Jewish Luck." "Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking" is now showing at the Walter Reade Theater by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and it runs until February 14, 2008. Alla Verlotsky co-programmed the series, and President of Russia's famous Mosfilm Studios, Karen Shakhnazarov, also directed two of the films in the series, "Jazzman" and "Courier."
Weigh in: What’s your favorite Russian film?
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Comments [9]
MUST SEE
I Am Cuba—Kalatazov (but don’t miss The Cranes Are Flying or The Letter Never Sent)
Trial in the Road (AKA Checkpoint) and Twenty Days Without War—Aleksei German
Come and See—Elen Klimov
Burnt By the Sun—Nikita Mikhailkov
Prisoners of the Mountains—Sergei Bodrov
My Name is Ivan—Tarkovsky
Commissar—Alexandr Askoldov
The Guard—Alexander Rogozhkin
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Let’s Part While You Are Kind—Vladimir Motyl
The Stroll--Aleksei Uchitel
The Irony of Fate—(The favorite Russian New Year’s Eve movie)
"Ostrov" (Island),directed by Pavel Lungin, is one of the best movies I've seen. And I love "Courier"! I've seen when I was about 20... but I think you have to know how it was to live in USSR to understand.
"Bed and Sofa" (Tretya meschanskaya)
I would like to know the name of a Russian film I watched on TV years ago.
Basic plot: an exuberant actress is imprisioned for blowing up an outhouse (as a prank with one of her dates, she later becomes involved with one of the officials and has his child. The big shot official commits suicide at the the end of the film.
anyone know of this film?
"Russian Ark"!!!
"Come and See" by Klimov
Films by Alexi German
Andrei Rublev
"The Cranes are Flying" by Mikhail Kalatozov
"The Stalker" by,Andre Tarkovsky
Aleksei Balabanov's 'Brother'
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