The snow packed down on a footpath forms ice that is the last to melt in spring. Scenes like this are one of the superficial reasons for liking Russian movies. You can’t do something like this with fake snow in California.
The movie is Kalina Krasnaya. I just started watching it.
The Evil Spirit of Yambuy was enjoyable to watch even though the plot was nothing special. The scenery was good and would probably look even better if we had a high quality version of the film. Some of the characters are interesting, though there isn't much in ...
I just now submitted the following comment to WeeklyStandard.com in response to a review of "Beethoven and the World of 1824 by Harvey Sachs. The review, written by Lawrence Klepp, was titled: "Freedom's Symphony : The world of Beethoven's Ninth"
I challenge Mr. Klepp to watch Tengiz Abuladze's 1984 movie, Pokayanie ...
Well, that was a waste. Last October I quit watching Voditel dlya Vera at this point, where the tension was too much to take any more. I was waiting to get up enough nerve to watch the rest of it.
Myra and I just now watched the ...
When I first started watching Russian movies a few years ago I wondered to myself, Where do they get all these good child actors? I have since learned that Russia has plenty of not-so-great child actors, too, but about half way through this movie I found I was back ...
While watching Meri Poppins, do svidaniya, Myra commented that Miss Andrew looked like she was played by a man. I hadn't noticed that. But it turns out that she was -- by Oleg Tabakov, who we've also seen in several other movies. As in Mary ...
I've still been watching Russian movies almost every evening, some of them together with my wife, Myra. I just haven't been blogging about them.
Tonight I watched The Lady with the Little Dog (1960), a Chekov adaptation. One of the most superficial things I learned was at about ...
At this point I was puzzled. This can't be a Soviet movie from the 1960s, I thought. It's a good movie with good acting and good cinematography, not like a lot of American movie crap. But that kid, a sympathetic character, is acting like a kid ...
This fairy tale is fun, but it wasn't until the 4th or 5th watching that I understood this part. Now I recognize it. It's a custom I've seen in many other Russian movies where those leaving as well as those seeing the travelers off sit down quietly for luck before ...
I'm trying to figure out if this footage of Van Cliburn shown on the TV in Pyat Vecherov is really from his famous 1958 visit to Russia for the Tchaikowsky Competition, or if it's from some later visit in the 1960s. Nothing in the movie or the clip says outright ...
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