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A couple of recommendations for Turner Classic Movies viewers on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 20. Wild Oranges (1924) is an early King Vidor effort featuring Virginia Valli, a popular leading lady of the 1920s. In this drama set on an island off the Florida coast, Valli plays a young woman whose quiet life with her grandfather is disturbed following the appearance of an evil [...]

"Envisioning Russia" Schedule   Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking Alexandra / Aleksandra Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia 2007; 92m Sat Jan 26: 7:15 The Ascent / Voskhozhdeniye Larisa Shepitko, USSR 1976; 110m Wed Feb 13: 4:15 & 8:45 At Home Among Strangers, Stranger at Home / Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh Nikita Mikhalkov, USSR 1974; 97m Mon Feb 11: 4:15 & 8:20 Thu Feb 14: [...]

Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein "Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking" (January 25 — February 14, 2008) at New York City's Film Society of Lincoln Center: "Although early film shows took place in Russia soon after the invention of cinema (Maxim Gorky's book In the Kingdom of Shadows, published July 4, 1896, is one of the most beautiful early descriptions of cinema), continuous, serious film [...]