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Tag Archives: Russian Cinema
Saturday Matinee: Hard To Be A God
Source: Kanopy When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by the Strugatsky brothers (authors of the source novel for Tarkovsky’s Stalker). Hard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleksei German, Hard To Be A God, Russian Cinema, Science fiction
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Saturday Matinee: Stalker
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, Philosophy, Saturday Matinee, society, Video
Tagged Andrei Tarkovsky, Arkady, Boris Strugatsky, cult movie, Dystopia, Roadside Picnic, Russian Cinema, Science fiction, Stalker
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LEVIATHAN: The end of history has arrived and it is in post-Soviet Russia
By Lauren Carroll Harris Source: Adbusters Within contemporary Russian film, it seems there is an ability to make the grandest statements from the smallest stories. From the insides of tiny flats, dying towns and treeless bays, directors like Andrey Zvyagintsev … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Corruption, culture, Economics, History, Philosophy, Social Control, society, Video
Tagged Adbusters, Andrey Zvyagintsev, capitalism, Leviathan, Neoliberalism, Russian Cinema
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