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Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Wednesday, 6 April 2016

HARDCORE HENRY - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Russian Vid-game-as-movie delivers the gore

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Hardcore Henry (2015) Dir. Illya Naishuller Prd. Timur Bekmambetov Starring: Haley Bennet, Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Tim Roth,...
Wednesday, 23 April 2014

OLGA, TO MY FRIENDS - Review By Greg Klymkiw - HOT DOCS 2014 - Visually sumptuous contemplations.

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Olga - To My Friends (2013) Dir. Paul Anders-Simma *** Review By Greg Klymkiw Life in Lapland's Russian district has its own speci...
Monday, 21 April 2014

THE CONDEMNED - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Hot Docs 2014 - Russian Prison Doc a Hot Docs 2014 MUST-SEE

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The Condemned (2014) ***** Dir. Nick Read Review By Greg Klymkiw The screen is pitch black and the sickening sounds of a metal door cla...
Monday, 24 February 2014

TARAS BULBA (2009) - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Sub-Par Russian Version of classic Ukrainian tale of revolt is little more than a pallid made-for-tv-miniseries-styled slab of propaganda that might stir the loins of Putin-lovers-and-apologists, but it doesn’t come close to mining the stirring potential of Gogol's great story.

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Taras Bulba (2009) ** dir. Wolodymyr Bortko Starring: Bohdan Stupka, Ihor Petrenko, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Magdalena Mielcarz, Sergei Dr...
Saturday, 15 February 2014

PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Important Documentary details protests against Russia and Vladimir Putin's blending of patriarchal Eastern Rite religious Dogma with the heinous strategies of Joseph Stalin.

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The Threat to Putin Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013) **** Dir: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin Starring: Nadezhda (Nadia) Tolokonnikov...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

ANNA KARENINA - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Of all people, the Russians can never get Anna Karenina right.

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Anna Karenina (2009) **½ dir. Sergei Solovyov Starring: Tatyana Drubich, Oleg Yankovskiy and Yaroslav Boyko Review By Greg Klymkiw H...
Thursday, 12 September 2013

THE MAJOR - Review By Greg Klymkiw - #TIFF 2013 - Did you know corruption exists in Russia? Now you do!

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The Major (2013) *** Dir. Yuri Bykov Starring: Denis Shvedov, Yuri Bykov, Irina Nizin Review By Greg Klymkiw Did you know corruption ...
Monday, 13 May 2013

IVAN'S CHILDHOOD - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Perhaps the greatest film about war and childhood ever made, Andrei Tarkovsky's first feature film is indelibly presented on Blu-Ray via the visionary Criterion Collection

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Ivan's Childhood (1962) ***** Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky Starring: Nikolai Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Va...
Wednesday, 1 May 2013

WINTER, GO AWAY - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Klymkiw HOT DOCS 2013 HOT PICK

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Winter, Go Away (2013) ***1/2 Producer: Marina Razbezhkina Dir: Sofia Rodkevich, Anton Seregin, Madina Mustafina, Elena Khoreva, Anna Mo...
Sunday, 3 February 2013

THE EDGE - Review By Greg Klymkiw

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The Edge (2010) *** dir. Alexey Uchitel Starring: Vladimir Mashkov, Yulia Peresild, Anjorka Strechel and Sergey Garmash Review By Greg...
Monday, 5 November 2012

PUTIN'S KISS - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Love, Russian Style

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Doc earns marks for sticking with its subject for four years, but ultimately feels like it's been overly contrived to present a full n...