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Win tickets for Aelita: Queen of Mars with Minima at Hackney Attic
Filmphonics presents Aelita: Queen of Mars You like your silent film screenings with a touch of rock’n'roll? No problem. Filmphonics presents silent movies with live soundtracks in the quirky Ha… more →
Silent London
Aelita: Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov, 1924)
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wrote 1 day ago: I first learnt about this film in an brilliant exhibition at the British Library entitled ‘Sci … more →
Mikhail Belikov's 'Raspad' ('Decay') (1990)
wrote 3 weeks ago: Review by Bastian Gottbehüt There is just one other film I’ve see more often than Tarkovky’s „Stalke … more →
Why leave Ukraine?
wrote 3 weeks ago: In the book, there’s a section about expats, and how they are the happiest occupants of Ukrain … more →
Aleksei German's 'Moy Drug Ivan Lapshin' (My Friend Ivan Lapshin) (1984)
wrote 2 months ago: Review by Bastian Gottbehüt As any other of German‘s (with a hard ‘G’) films, … more →
Larisa Shepitko's 'Voskhozhdeniye' (Ascent) (1977)
wrote 2 months ago: Review by Bastian Gottbehüt While the world seems to be wanking off to the newest shipment of medioc … more →
Akira Kurosawa's 'Dersu Uzala' (1975)
wrote 3 months ago: Review by Bastian Gottbehüt When in the 1930s Akira Kurosawa, Japan’s most famous and influent … more →
Soviet Comedy Movies
wrote 4 months ago: Soviet comedy movies are surprisingly awesome and funny. They also provide a window into a culture t … more →
Nostalghia
wrote 4 months ago: Films by the great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (probably best known for the original Solaris) … more →
Andrei Tarkovskiy’s 'Stalker' (1979)
wrote 4 months ago: Review by Bastian Gottbehuet The hardest reviews to write are those about films you deeply love, so … more →
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924)
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wrote 5 months ago: The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma) Yuliya Solntseva / Igor Ilyinsky / A … more →
the zone
wrote 1 year ago: [Guardian] Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1980) came second, behind Blade Runner, in a recent BFI … more →
New BRIGHT LIGHTS FILM JOURNAL
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wrote 1 year ago: “Your body is a microcosm of all existence.” – On Michelle LeBrun’s Death: A Love … more →
Light of Asia and Turksib with live scores at BFI Southbank, August 2011
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wrote 1 year ago: Light of Asia (1925) You live in London and you love silent film, so you’re probably a member … more →
Two steps forward, one step back...
wrote 1 year ago: Coen brothers fans out there will probably recognise immediately what the name of my blog alludes to … more →
Kosmos – Aelita, Queen of Mars at BFI Southbank, July 2011
wrote 1 year ago: Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) The BFI’s year-long celebration of Russian cinema is in full swin … more →
I am twenty and more causa, also briefly
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wrote 2 years ago: Saw Marlen Khutsiev’s I Am Twenty at the Cinémathèque yesterday. Nothing like ending your movi … more →
Man With a Movie Camera at the Barbican, 29 May 2011
wrote 2 years ago: Man with a Movie Camera (1929) You can’t throw a plate in London this month without hitting a … more →
We Are Nobodies: 13 Assassins and the Elegance of Miike
wrote 2 years ago: Elegance of Miike? The hell you say. The man who gave us Ichi The Killer? The man who shocked people … more →
The Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potemkin, USSR 1925)
wrote 2 years ago: USSR 1925. Black and white, silent with musical accompaniment, 1337 metres / 71 minutes. The British … more →
