Although the majority of the audiences at the Transilvania Film Festival can scarcely remember communism, the appeal of films from the Soviet era is remarkable, say organizers of the Back in the Ussr.
Screening five Russian films from the 80s, including the 1980 foreign lingo Oscar winner “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears,” the fest has drawn crowds of young and older audiences to cinemas in Cluj all week. Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, who selected the films along with Transilvania artistic director Mihai Chirilov, makes the case that much of the cinema from the Soviet Union at the time has lasting social and artistic merit.
Referring to the last generation of Russian filmmakers before the Iron Curtain came down, Gusyatinskiy says these creatives “managed to create what might be called a Soviet Hollywood.”
Exploring many of the same themes as 1980s directors such as John Hughes were taking on in the U.S.
Screening five Russian films from the 80s, including the 1980 foreign lingo Oscar winner “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears,” the fest has drawn crowds of young and older audiences to cinemas in Cluj all week. Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, who selected the films along with Transilvania artistic director Mihai Chirilov, makes the case that much of the cinema from the Soviet Union at the time has lasting social and artistic merit.
Referring to the last generation of Russian filmmakers before the Iron Curtain came down, Gusyatinskiy says these creatives “managed to create what might be called a Soviet Hollywood.”
Exploring many of the same themes as 1980s directors such as John Hughes were taking on in the U.S.
- 5/31/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Above: Mondo poster for The Graduate (Mike Nichols, USA, 1967); artist: Rory Kurtz; lettering: Jay Shaw.On my daily movie poster Tumblr I don’t make a habit of posting fan art or art prints—call them what you will—because I’m most interested in the intersection of commerce and art that is the theatrical movie poster. But I make an exception when something stands out, and nothing stood out last year quite like Rory Kurtz’s beautiful, elegant and unexpected Mondo illustration for The Graduate, which quite rightly racked up over 200 more likes than even its nearest competitor. But its nearest competitor was fan art too: a brilliant poster for Badlands by the insanely talented Adam Juresko, whose art poster for In the Mood for Love (featured in my Maggie Cheung article) was also in the top four. What makes art posters easy to like—beyond their extraordinary artistry...
- 1/7/2017
- MUBI
Toronto -- Veteran Russian director Sergey Solovyev's "Anna Karenina," a film adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy novel, received its North American premiere Thursday night at the KinoArt Festival in Toronto.
The veteran director and "Karenina" lead Tatyana Drubich were on hand for Toronto's homage to Russian film, which includes two other Solovyev pics, the 80's cult-classic film "Assa" and its long-awaited sequel "Assa 2."
KinoArt founder and executive director Alla-Ani Poliakova said the festival aims to "chronicle the evolution of Russian films, past and present," by bringing that country's feature films, documentaries and shorts to North America.
Also unspooling in Toronto is Vladimir Bortko's $20 million period drama "Taras Bulba" from Russian studo Central Partnership, and a North American premiere for Liza Listova's "Metro," part of a Soviet Empire documentary cycle that in its latest installment chronicles the 1930s Stalin-era construction of the Moscow subway system.
Listova said she used animation,...
The veteran director and "Karenina" lead Tatyana Drubich were on hand for Toronto's homage to Russian film, which includes two other Solovyev pics, the 80's cult-classic film "Assa" and its long-awaited sequel "Assa 2."
KinoArt founder and executive director Alla-Ani Poliakova said the festival aims to "chronicle the evolution of Russian films, past and present," by bringing that country's feature films, documentaries and shorts to North America.
Also unspooling in Toronto is Vladimir Bortko's $20 million period drama "Taras Bulba" from Russian studo Central Partnership, and a North American premiere for Liza Listova's "Metro," part of a Soviet Empire documentary cycle that in its latest installment chronicles the 1930s Stalin-era construction of the Moscow subway system.
Listova said she used animation,...
- 11/6/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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