Review of Nanni Moretti’s film “The Great Magic” (Il sol dell’avvenire)
Nanni Moretti's film The Great Magic (Il sol dell'avvenire) has been released and premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival....
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Review of the film “Heist from the Future” by Bruce Wample
At the box office - "The Tomorrow Job" by Bruce Wample, not the first and, alas, not the last film...
“The film cannot be understood, it must be emotionally lived” – Weekend
July 14, 1918 was born Ingmar Bergman - one of the greatest directors of world cinema and one of its...
I’m bored, yes! – Weekend
All theorists of boredom, from Heidegger to Carlson, tried to find salvation from it: Carlson dressed as a ghost and...
Tear line – Weekend
One of the instantly recognizable features of late Soviet cinema is a strange tonality, at the same time extremely tense...
Spot Escape – Weekend
In modern theater, the absurd is a full-fledged character, a noun, not an adjective, an object, not an 'ism'. The...
Gingerbread man in hell – Weekend – Kommersant
The fourth installment of The Adventures of John Wick, the most important film franchise spawned by independent cinema in recent...
Bike ride from reality – Newspaper Kommersant No. 39 (7484) dated 03/09/2023
Anton Maslov’s road movie “The Ride”, based on the true story of blogger Anna Smolina, who in 2017, together with...
A crippled secret – Weekend – Kommersant
In late Soviet cinema, the Western world was a territory that was either inviting or threatening, and as a rule,...
Chapaev does not sink – Weekend – Kommersant
Released on screens in the mid-1930s, "Chapaev" became not just a folk cinema, one of the first blockbusters of sound...
Operation “Gag” – Weekend – Kommersant
January 30 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonid Gaidai, the most popular Soviet comedian, one of the...
In Moscow, they said goodbye to the former Minister of Cinematography Armen Medvedev
+ A - "I'm a movie boy" In Moscow, at the Cinema House, they said goodbye to Armen Medvedev, a...
In Search of the Murdered Past – Weekend – Kommersant
Alexei German's My Friend Ivan Lapshin is the first film in post-Stalin cinema that is entirely dedicated to the 1930s....
The Right to Utopia – Weekend – Kommersant
72 days of the Paris Commune is one of the most hushed up events in cinema: in the entire history...
“History needs a kind third-party look” – Weekend – Kommersant
The new film by Alexei Fedorchenko "Big snakes of Ulli-Kale" is a mockumentary about a sensational find, a pre-revolutionary film...
