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 No.5298

I think Soviet/Russian cinema is sometimes overlooked compared to countries like France and Italy. How about a dedicated thread here at /film/?

Russia has more to offer than the dozen titles that everyone knows about. Talk about your faves here, but also the films below the radar in the West. New releases and former Soviet states are welcome too.

A couple links to get the ball rolling…

Russian Guild Top Films: https://mubi.com/lists/russian-guild-of-film-critics-100-best-russian-films-1908-2000

Mosfilm on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Mosfilm

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 No.5303

Well, current Russian cinema is kinda in the shitter. Outside of few select filmmakers (and even those are slowly becoming mad due to aging) there's just nothing interesting going on compared to 80's - 90's burst of creativity. Partly that's because of old guard dying out, partly because of old guard not dying out but struggling to find funding (whereas in Soviet era their movies were government-funded). And of course, can't forget that part of directors who've firmly embedded themselves into positions of power and have been sucking financial aid while churning out complete shit (Mihalkov and most of the current Cinematographers' Union members).

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 No.5304

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I'm excited for sokurovs New film shot in the louvre.

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 No.5305

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>>5303

> Well, current Russian cinema is kinda in the shitter.

Disappointing to hear that. The few I've seen lately made a good impression, but maybe I was lucky.

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 No.5309

I've wondered about Russian Hamlet since it gets cited a lot. Does Shakespeare even work in a foreign language? Aren't you just reading the entire play via subtitles?

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 No.5311

>>5309

The best Shakespeare adaptions are Japanese.

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 No.5316

File: 1437768849489.jpg (35.95 KB,601x345,601:345,Восхождение.jpg)

OK, well I was pleased with The Ascent which I just watched. The tone was kind of like Come and See, which makes sense because the directors were husband and wife. It's tragic that Larisa Shepitko died early in life. But I will try to see her other films sometime.

Can anyone speak about Elem Klimov's filmography besides Come and See?

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 No.5757

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I recommend a nicely photographed hidden gem Babylon XX from Ivan Mykolaichuk

Villagecore about commies vs farmers with cool folk music and qt Ukrainian hausfraus

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080083

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 No.9382

>>5757

This one is great. Has anyone seen more from this director?

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 No.9383

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>>9382

His only other film (no subs though)

Такая поздняя, такая теплая осень aka Such a Late, Warm Autumn (1981)

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 No.9428

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Here's one with potential

Сибириада AKA Siberiade (1978)

imdb 8.2

running time 275 min (4-part)

Might be the best version: https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4976903

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 No.9437

>>5316

The only other of his films I've seen is Larisa which is obviously dedicated to her. It was quite good.

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 No.9507

File: 8bdcd38a0661fcc⋯.mp4 (11.78 MB,698x460,349:230,agony1.mp4)

>>5316

> Elem Klimov's filmography

Agony is about Rasputin and the Romanovs in the months leading up to the Revolution. Soviet authorities did not like the finished product so the film was shelved for almost a decade

Rasputin is a pretty crazy character. I uploaded an intense scene here. I like how the hanging glass catches his image for the camera

sample it on mosfilm youtube

pt 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll1Wdob2P1E

pt 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meag8p7S66c

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 No.9513

>>9507

Looks intense, this film has been on my backlog for a while now. Klimov captures the best faces and expressions.

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 No.9518

>>9513

It's generally more subdued than Come and See but things get frantic in the second half

By the way I'd love to hear opinions on other Russian Revolution films....or Tolstoy adaptations for that matter

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 No.10635

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Russia's biggest cinema chain has cancelled screenings of a controversial film about the love life of the last tsar Nicholas II after Orthodox Church activists strongly condemned it.

Matilda explores his love for ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya before he came to the throne, and includes erotic scenes.

The Cinema Park and Formula кино group said it had to "protect cinemagoers from risks" in light of recent threats.

The film is due to go on general release in Russia on 26 October.

The cinema chain's spokeswoman Alexandra Artamonova told BBC Russian that the cancellation "is a necessary measure - we have very many cinemas in 28 Russian cities and we're responsible for them".

The chain noted that there had been "extreme actions by opponents of the film" and threats made against cinemas.

Matilda's director Alexei Uchitel could not be reached for comment. But the producer, Alexander Dostman, shrugged off the cinema chain's move, saying, "There's no point worrying - people will still watch the film anyway".

On Monday two cars were torched outside the Moscow office of a lawyer acting for Uchitel, a director who has picked up several Russian awards for previous films.

Lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin posted Facebook photos of burnt-out cars and notes left at the scene saying "Burn for Matilda".

Nicholas II was canonised in 2000 by the Orthodox Church, so campaigners see the exposé of his love affair as an insult.

MP Natalia Poklonskaya, a staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin, has been campaigning to get the film's release blocked.

An early showing of Matilda went ahead in the far eastern city of Vladivostok on Monday, amid tight security. But a Moscow cinema decided to cancel its showing for "technical" reasons.

Early on 31 August some petrol bombs were thrown at a St Petersburg building housing Uchitel's studio, but the interior was not damaged.

The Kremlin has condemned letters that warned cinemas they would "burn" if they dared screen Matilda. There have been protests by a group calling itself "Christian State, Holy Russia".

On 4 September a man was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg after crashing his jeep into a cinema, setting the entrance ablaze. The attack was linked, by officials, to Matilda.

After the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917, the imperial family was summarily executed by communists the following year. Nicholas II had already abdicated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41237820

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 No.11541

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Google is honoring Eisenstein today, his 120th birthday

https://www.google.com/doodles/sergei-eisensteins-120th-birthday

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 No.11542

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I really enjoyed this film although ive heard other people describe it as preachy

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 No.11545

>>11542

I still have to watch that. I think I DL'd it way back when it was released.

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 No.11848

>>5298

Studio "Earth" expresses gratitude to entrepreneurs, state cooperative and civil organizations, as well as thousands of Ukrainians and compatriots in the United States, for material and moral help in creating the film.

I do not know Ukrainian. Curve translation from Russian.

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 No.11849

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>>11848

Here's what he's talking about >>11845

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 No.12258

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 No.12259

Indeed, I'd recommend you to watch "The Green Elephant" (most critically acclaimed movie film in Russia)

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 No.12260

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>>12259

ha ha, do you actually like it?

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 No.15400

File: adb5596b2681b2d⋯.mp4 (12.88 MB,688x576,43:36,raspad.mp4)

I'd like a refresher on Chernobyl and I'm not sure I want to watch the HBO series. I thought about Geyrhalter's Pripyat or Babushkas of Chernobyl but I'm open to other suggestions.

Raspad recounts some of the story with a few great scenes (like this one).

However as the film goes on, the fictionalized drama about societal collapse is less connected to the disaster itself.

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 No.15401

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>>15400

Not russian or ukranian but i found the hour-long BBC dramatization in one of their tax write off series Surviving Disaster to be very compelling if somewhat trying to push a few fictional/simplified facts. The acting is particularly decent, especially for the comedic-prone history of the cast, and the visuals with their respective camera portrayal fits with the use of the classic slavic sepia tone and locations set around the big gray 60's-era dilapidated social housing projects in Britain.

A good example too that sometimes the ending scene should be at the end. And also an example that HBO "Original" Productions usually grab someone else's script and call it their own if they were mere interns or didn't register their work.

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