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Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts
Monday, 16 February 2015

THE ASCENT and WINGS - Reviewed By Greg Klymkiw - Susan Sontag called Larisa Shepitko's harrowing anti-war film THE ASCENT "the most affecting film about the horror of war I know." Shepitko focused on suffering, slaughter and senseless strife and did so in a stunning allegorical portrait of Christ and Judas during the German occupation of Belarus. The movie was miraculously rendered under Communist oppression in the Soviet Union. With WINGS, Shepitko delivered a powerful, romantic look at Russia's fighting women of the Second World War in a post-war world. Shepitko's eye, like a mad pit bull's jaws, always clenched furiously on its quarry and never, ever let it go.

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This is a perfect time to take another look at two films about war by the late Ukrainian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko (a protege of Dovzhenko a...
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, 4 January 2012

THE ASCENT (aka Voskhozhdeniye) - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Susan Sontag called Larisa Shepitko's harrowing anti-war film "the most affecting film about the horror of war I know." Shepitko focused on suffering, slaughter and senseless strife and did so in a stunning allegorical portrait of Christ and Judas during the German occupation of Belarus. The movie was miraculously rendered under Communist oppression in the Soviet Union. Shepitko's eye, like a mad pit bull's jaws, clenched furiously on its quarry and never let go.

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A CINEMATIC 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, EASTERN-RITE NATIVITY AND FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY: Join me in this special celebration of cinema as each day...
Friday, 30 December 2011

KRYLYA - Review By Greg Klymkiw - The Great Ukrainian Filmmaker Larisa Shepitko delivers this powerful, romantic look at Russia's fighting women in a post-war world

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A CINEMATIC 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, EASTERN-RITE NATIVITY AND FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY: Join me in this special celebration of cinema as each day...