#Russian films

[vintage-russia]

Still from the movie "Дочь купца Башкирова|Merchant Bashkirov's daughter" (1913)

[russianfolklore]

Baba Yaga portrayed by Soviet actor Georgy Millyar.

Georgy Frantsevich Millyar was a Soviet and Russian actor, best known for playing evil spirits in Soviet fairy tale films, including the witch Baba Yaga in films such as Vasilisa the Beautiful, Jack Frost, Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes and The Golden Horns.

[timotheescloset]

The Living End (1992) dir. Gregg Araki

[cinema-enigmatic]

UNDER ELECTRIC CLOUDS (Aleksey German Jr., 2015)

[tasianacat]

Староватая хрень, но тоже тут выложу Сериал "Кухня"

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

Aelita, Queen of Mars / Yuliya Solntseva as Aelita

Coeli's comment: "Aelita: Queen of Mars has some magnificently weird Constructivist costumes in the Martian sequence (contrasting with the dull Soviet realism of the rest of the movie!)."

The Martian costumes in this film, by Aleksandra Ekster, are indeed quite something! Here, Aelita wears a hat that's something like an umbrella spine or perhaps a radio antenna. And is the design of that bodice meant to hint that she has three breasts, or is it just a stylistic thing?

There's a cool writeup and summary of the movie here.

I featured a costume Ikhoshka, Aelita's servant (who dresses like a bumblebee in a birdcage), in a previous post.

[film-o-teka]

Займемся любовью, 2002

[ninjadeathmedia]

Брат 1997

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching

HARD TO BE A GOD Aleksey German Russia, 2013

[rameenf]

The Tree and the Cat (1983)

[vintage-russia]

Polaroids from the set of "Nostalghia" by Andrey Tarkovskiy,Italy (1983)

[alightinthelantern]

film reviews: The Vanished Empire

Synopsis: A Russian coming-of-age film set in 1970s USSR. A handsome young devil-may-care spends his time seducing women, listening to contraband Western music, and getting into fights with his friends instead of studying and being responsible. But when his feelings for one girl become deeper, and his mother becomes sick, he’s forced with the tough decision of whether to grow up or continue in his carefree ways.

Review: I don’t like protagonists like this guy very much, but the film was very well-made, with nice cinematography and a good script and good acting, so I enjoyed it a lot. The protagonist’s grandfather was an archaeologist who worked on Khorezm, the City of the Winds, and he bids his grandson travel there someday for his grandfather’s and mother’s sakes; this adds an artistic depth to the film. The ending is also artful, shifting to two of the characters thirty years later, meeting in an airport or train station (I’m not sure which). It’s a good film that really makes you feel like you’re in 1973, and I recommend watching it. It’s on YouTube, and you can watch it here.

[timotheescloset]

Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

[cinema-enigmatic]

THE SNOW QUEEN (Gennadi Kazansksy, 1967)

[tasianacat]

Скетчи по кухне

[ryuki-draws]

That's all that's left. Fifty-seven pages of research, two bottles of morphine and one ticket back to the Capital. The train departs at dusk.

An illustration for a Patho AU inspired by Bulgakov I'll probably never write properly but it's been worming in my brain for over two years now.