Summary

Editor-in-chief address

Vadim Abdrashitov, Sitora Aliyeva, Yury Arabov, Bakur Bakuradze, Roman Balayan, Harry Bardin, Yury Bogomolov, Anatoly Vasilyev, Artyom Vasilyev, Alexandre Gelman, Alexey German, Alexandre Gonorovsky, Elena Gremina, Alla Demidova, Anton Dolin, Denis Dragunsky, Tatyana Drubich

Noted filmmakers and cultural professionals congratulate IK on occasion of 80-year jubilee.

Conversation about contemporary role of film criticism. Contributors: Zara Abdullayeva, Daniil Dondurei, Oleg Zintsov, Alexey Medvedev, Xenia Rozhdestvenskaya.

Andrey Zvyagintsev, Alexandre Zeldovich, Nina Ignatyeva, Alexandre Kabakov, Naum Kleiman, Viktor Kosakovsky, Maxim Kurochkin, Sergey Loznitsa, Oleg Lukichov, Dmitry Mamulia, Vitaly Mansky, Viktor Matizen, Anna Melikian, Alexey Mizgiryov, Alexandre Mindadze, Vladimir Mirzoyev

Noted filmmakers and cultural profes-sionals congratulate IK on occasion of 80-year jubilee.

American film theorists on film theory and film criticism in Russia.

Vladimir Padunov. How we discovered Russian cinema

Vida Johnson. Without cross-fertilization

Russian and Western film theory through Tarkovsky's creation.

Nancy Condee. On «regional raw product»

Rimgaila Salis. Film criticism in crisis?

Alexander Prokhorov. Public sphere: film theory in the realm of discussion

Noted filmmakers and cultural professionals congratulate IK on occasion of 80-year jubilee.

Internet-criticism: perspectives, problems, dead ends and advantages

Andrey Stempkovsky, Mikhail Trofimenkov, Maya Turovskaya, Pavel Finn, Chulpan

Khamatova, Boris Khlebnikov, Nikolai Khomeri, Andrey Khrzhanovsky, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Pavel Chukhrai

Noted filmmakers and cultural professionals congratulate IK on occasion of 80-year jubilee.

Memoirs of the former IK editor-in-chief, later Chairman of Goskino USSR.

Nina Zarkhi — Tatyana Iensen — Lev Karakhan. Speaking frankly

Elena Paisova and Anastasia Dementyeva converse with the critics who entered IK in 1975.

Elena Stishova. Stitch-up

About openness in criticism

The film critic recalls the case of one of the most scandalous IK publications — Bogomolov's article about Georgian cinema and its discussion with participation of Georgia's film leaders

Rakhman Badalov. What use of «Film art»?

The Azerbaijanian film theorist and critic on connections with Russian colleagues and cooperation with IK.

Sergey Trimbach. Film artization

The Ukrainian film theorist and critic recalls some periods of cooperation with the magazine.

Vyacheslav Shmyrov. Romancing transperancy

Editor-in-chief of Film Process magazine on his master, former IK editor-in-chief Evgeny Surkov.

One-act piece