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Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts
Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Feature Story Interview with Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi Ukrainian director of THE TRIBE (followed by rewrite/repost of the REVIEW) - By Greg Klymkiw

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Feature Story My Conversation with Ukrainian Director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi By Greg Klymkiw The acclaimed Ukrainian filmmaker Myro...
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...
Saturday, 13 December 2014

TARAS BULBA (1962) - Blu-Ray Review By Greg Klymkiw - Glory Be to Kino: BULBA on BRD!

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On BRD at last! Thanks to KINO-LORBER Taras Bulba (1962) dir. J. Lee Thompson Starring: Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis Review By Greg Kly...
Monday, 8 September 2014

THE TRIBE (aka PLEMYA) - TIFF 2014 (TIFF Discovery) - Review By Greg Klymkiw

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Russia's continued oppression of Ukraine batters the most vulnerable members of society. The Tribe (2014) (aka Plemya/плем'я ...
Saturday, 6 September 2014

MAIDAN - TIFF 2014 (TIFF WAVELENGTHS) - Review By Greg Klymkiw

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To see  Maidan  is to see a great film. To see  Maidan  as a Ukrainian is to experience a series of epiphanies. Maidan (2014) Dir. Se...
Monday, 28 April 2014

UKRAINE AND WOMEN at HOT DOCS 2014 - Part One and Two Bundled Together Just For You. Reviews of Two Film Corner Hot Docs 2014 MUST-SEE Movies - By Greg Klymkiw of the two best films about Ukraine at #HotDocs14: LOVE ME and UKRAINE IS NOT A BROTHEL - PLUS below, find two special surprise bonus pieces. One is FOR UKRAINIANS (and non-Ukrainians) visiting Toronto for the HOT DOCS film festival who want to experience Ukraine in Canada and another piece (mostly) FOR UKRAINIANS ONLY.

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UKRAINE AND WOMEN at Hot Docs 2014 - PART ONE: LOVE ME Beyond the myriad of films focusing upon Ukraine that are screening in the Toronto H...