The legacy and inspiration of Soviet director Sergei Parajanov is at the center of I Will Revenge This World With Love – S. Parajanov, a new documentary from director Zara Jian, which premieres at ...

When I was an undergrad in film school, one of the pillar courses was a two-semester film history class that would act as a broad survey to give us a foundation as aspiring filmmakers and workers.

In 1945, the Soviet Army seized the film archive of the Third Reich, the so-called Reichfilmarchive, and brought it from Berlin to Moscow. The archive contained thousands of movies from various ...

Dustin Condren's research builds on his book on Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, whose 1925 film Strike uses animal symbolism to portray human suffering and political violence. University of ...

Cinema had long been hailed by Bolshevik party leaders as a crucial ally of the Soviet mass enlightenment project. By the mid-1920s, however, Soviet psychologists, educators and practitioners of ...

Boxoffice revenue in Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet states grew 30.4% in 2006 to reach $455 million, according to industry magazine Russian Film Business Today. By Nick Holdsworth, The ...

When thinking of Armenian cinema, the names of Sergei Parajanov and Artavazd Peleshyan come to mind. These two titans are influential not only for Armenian or Soviet cinema but world film heritage.

Bill Morrison, the poet laureate of lost films, turns the story of footage found near Iceland into a history of a slice of Soviet cinema. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Zara Jian's documentary on Sergei Parajanov premieres in the Venice Classics section of the 2024 Venice Film Festival. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The legacy and inspiration of Soviet ...