Looking through my collection of downloads from Memocast I found this one that I haven’t yet watched: Ne khlebom edinym (Not by Bread Alone). I’ve just started but it looks good, like something Myra will enjoy watching with me.
And pictured here is another one of those desks I was talking about, with a table protruding at right angles from the front of the desk.
We finished watching Agoniya tonight. The film was somewhat of a letdown. You'd figure any film that was banned by the Soviet government for several years would be good, no? In this case, no.
At the part where we saw the screenshots shown here, a little ...
Pokayanie has some really strange musical references. Here Yelena breaks into a singing of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," in German. The effect is sinister. It comes after she tries to "comfort" Nino by saying the following:
Of course, the arrest of Sandro and Mikhail is a mistake. ...
Tonight I finished the first watching of Pokayanie.
If I hadn't been told that this film was produced in 1984, I would have guessed it was a production from the mid 1990s or so. It's that prophetic.
Most of the way through, while being surprised that such a film had been ...
I've started to watch Repentance (Pokayanie). Unfortunately, the language spoken is Georgian, not Russian. Nothing wrong with that, but I understand not a syllable of Georgian, so I'm listening to the Russian overdub while reading English subtitles. I've had a little practice in watching ...
In Dvenadsat (12), this juror is almost the last holdout to insist that the Chechen kid is guilty. He sarcastically criticizes the previous juror's emotional personal story, saying, "Uncle Vasya the city prosecutor turns a blind eye. And the criminal remains at large! And meanwhile the entire civilized world ...
Warning: The following contains a spoiler for the film Depuis qu'Otar est parti. Go away if you want to see the film first.
I've long been bothered by the part near the end after Eka learns that Otar is dead. I was content to just let it ...
Due to a Netflix accident, we're watching Depuis qu'Otar est parti again. We've not dropped Netflix entirely, even though it's gotten a lot more difficult to get Russian films from them. So many are now marked "short wait," "very long wait," and "unavailable." We hung on ...
My crusade to outlaw television in public places is not going very well -- certainly not as well as other crusaders' measures to outlaw smoking.
I figured it would probably be an issue when I took my wife in for outpatient surgery this morning. But I've been able to deal with ...
This Family Circus cartoon for March 22 reminds me of me when I'm reading anything in Russian. The little girl goes on for 7 frames reading her book -- sitting up, lying down, shifting positions, enjoying herself all the time. Then she reports to her mother: ...
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