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Back in the USSR: February 2013
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Back in the USSR. Excursions Through Soviet Cinema. Monday, February 25, 2013. In December, I blogged about Lev Kuleshov. S The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks. As entertaining as this work is, it must be noted that it was used as a means for Kuleshov to experiment with previously used techniques (as seen in popular American films) and to forge and devise a language of cinema all his own. A film whose plot is based on the short story The Unexpected. Are hardly apparent ...
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Back in the USSR: January 2013
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Back in the USSR. Excursions Through Soviet Cinema. Sunday, January 20, 2013. A Journey to Soviet Armenia:. The Red Flag at Ararat. The Red Flag at Ararat. Yes, this is another non-film-related post. However, it is Soviet-related and is totally worth reading – I promise! On the shelves now is the new republication of the 1932 book The Red Flag at Ararat. Printed by the London-based Gomidas Institute. As part of its Sterndale Classics. The Red Flag at Ararat. And a founding member of the National Associat...
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Back in the USSR: By the Law
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Back in the USSR. Excursions Through Soviet Cinema. Monday, February 25, 2013. In December, I blogged about Lev Kuleshov. S The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks. As entertaining as this work is, it must be noted that it was used as a means for Kuleshov to experiment with previously used techniques (as seen in popular American films) and to forge and devise a language of cinema all his own. A film whose plot is based on the short story The Unexpected. Are hardly apparent ...
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Back in the USSR: The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
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Back in the USSR. Excursions Through Soviet Cinema. Saturday, December 29, 2012. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks. Every student of film is no doubt familiar with the name Lev Kuleshov. And his famous Kuleshov effect. Less well known among film students, however, are Kuleshov's actual films. When many think of 1920s Soviet cinema, the great Eisensteinian classics, like the Battleship Potemkin. The film, co-written by Nikolai Aseyev. Mr John S. West. His wife, Madge, ...
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Back in the USSR: October 2012
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Back in the USSR. Excursions Through Soviet Cinema. Thursday, October 18, 2012. From Perestroika to Pizza Hut. Okay, so this post is not exactly about Soviet film per se. But it does involve Russia, an ex-Soviet leader, and visual media. I was doing some research on Mikhail Gorbachev and glasnost. Recently when I happened upon this:. Yes, it's Mikhail Gorbachev's all-too-famous pitch for Pizza Hut. Gorbachev's spokesman, Karen Karagezian, told the AP. It's an important part of life," he said. "It's n...
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Back in the USSR: December 2011
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Back in the USSR. Excursions Through Soviet Cinema. Monday, December 19, 2011. In Memoriam: Václav Havel (1936-2011). Yesterday, on December 18, I was saddened to read. That Václav Havel had passed away. Havel in Prague, 1989. By the late 1980s, with the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost. A visionary artist and a courageous activist, Havel was a true nonviolent revolutionary. May he rest in peace and continue to serve as an inspirations to others. After all, as history has shown, pravda vítězí! Russia...
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Back in the USSR: June 2011
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Back in the USSR. Excursions Through Soviet Cinema. Thursday, June 9, 2011. Setting the East Ablaze. Thanks to British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen ( Borat. Map of Post-Soviet Central Asia. This brings us to the film that I will be focusing on today. Set in the Central Asian front of the Civil War, it is a prime example of a popular genre known as the "Ostern," a Soviet spin on the traditional American Western, set in Samarkand as opposed to Santa Fe. Soviet audiences were being captivated by stories of ho...
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Back in the USSR: March 2013
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Back in the USSR. Excursions Through Soviet Cinema. Sunday, March 31, 2013. The House on Trubnaya. Ah, Soviet film in the 1920s. It is truly the best of all worlds: an art form coming of age in one of the most fascinating places in the world in perhaps one of the wildest and creative decades in world history. In keeping with the 1920s Soviet film kick, I've decided this month to discuss Boris Barnet's The House on Trubnaya. And the almost tacked-on ending trial of the hairdresser Golikov ( Vladimir Fogel.
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Back in the USSR: December 2012
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Back in the USSR. Excursions Through Soviet Cinema. Saturday, December 29, 2012. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks. Every student of film is no doubt familiar with the name Lev Kuleshov. And his famous Kuleshov effect. Less well known among film students, however, are Kuleshov's actual films. When many think of 1920s Soviet cinema, the great Eisensteinian classics, like the Battleship Potemkin. The film, co-written by Nikolai Aseyev. Mr John S. West. His wife, Madge, ...
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Back in the USSR: The House on Trubnaya
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Back in the USSR. Excursions Through Soviet Cinema. Sunday, March 31, 2013. The House on Trubnaya. Ah, Soviet film in the 1920s. It is truly the best of all worlds: an art form coming of age in one of the most fascinating places in the world in perhaps one of the wildest and creative decades in world history. In keeping with the 1920s Soviet film kick, I've decided this month to discuss Boris Barnet's The House on Trubnaya. And the almost tacked-on ending trial of the hairdresser Golikov ( Vladimir Fogel.
