War and Peace movie directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. “You are never, ever, going to see anything to equal it … as spectacular as a movie can possibly be.” That’s Roger…
Sex education film The Irresponsibles. The British Film Institute’s “The Joy of Sex Education” – to be presented at London’s bfi Southbank – consists of a series of British-made sex…
The Irony of Fate with Andrey Myagkov and Barbara Brylska. Directed by veteran Eldar Ryazanov (Office Romance, A Cruel Romance), the 1976 romantic comedy-drama The Irony of Fate is one…
First, I saw the 2002 Steven Soderbergh version of Solaris, starring George Clooney. Then I read Stanislaw Lem’s novel. And then I watched Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 169-minute film version of…
Science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, 84, whose novel Solaris was made into a film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972, died today of heart failure at a hospital in Krakow. According to…
Vera Kholodnaya. Russian silent movie star remembered: Vera Kholodnaya Vera Kholodnaya, Russia’s top female movie star of the 1910s, will be brought back to the fore thanks to a Moscow…
4 movie: Long night’s journey into … where exactly? In his feature film debut, Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky dares audiences to keep watching his meandering, fragmented, relentlessly bleak tale about…
Soviet masterpiece Battleship Potemkin: Alongside Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, and Federico Fellini’s 8½, Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 classic is one…