Russia
What happens to those without resources to evacuate a dying world? John Stanford Owen examines life and humanity in High Life.
The White Crow boasts an excellent lead performance from Oleg Ivenko, but the central character remains cold and distant throughout.
This is a preview of four films that will play during Russian Film Week in New York 2018, which kicks off Saturday, December 8 at the SVA Theater and runs through December 14.
Our New President lets the Russian news about Trump tell its own story, but a bit more structure would have made it clearer and stronger.
Despite a strong beginning and strong performances, Siberia is ultimately a confounding mess of genres and tone.
The Color of Pomegranates offers an experience of careful, questioning celebration that combines appreciation of artistic beauty with cognizance of worldly suffering.
A Gentle Creature is a divisive film, too exaggerated to be a realistic condemnation of the corrupt bureaucracy it seeks to lampoon.
Red Sparrow is solidly engaging, a blistering and intense film with Jennifer Lawrence’s skill and Francis Lawrence’s well-crafted atmosphere.
Featuring one of the coldest mother-child relationships of the year, the harrowing but heavy handed Loveless truly lives up to its title.
Russian sports documentary Make them Believe brilliantly uses the lofty dreams of a college wrestler to examine how we chase our goals.
Icarus is a somewhat messy if also interesting look at the doping practices in Russian sports, with a director who gets in over his head.
There isn’t a single original narrative element in this inspirational drama- but the insight into post-WWII Estonian life is fascinating.
We had a chance to talk with Johnny O’Reilly, director of the upcoming drama Moscow Never Sleeps, a film that’s very politically relevant.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker is ripe with philosophical connotations; here, we discuss some of the film’s more prominent ideas.
The Student is an effective political drama, which satirizes the rough intensity of Russia’s draconian laws in the context of a school.