SUMMARY

Daniil Dondurei

Inevitability of reloading

System crisis in cinema.

For what sake have we united

Speeches at the Congress of new (KinoSoyuz): Film Union E.Ryazanov, A.Avdeev, A.German-jr., A.Konchalovsky, M.Razbezhkina, P.Finn, Yu.Norshtein, V.Matizen, R.Ibragimbekov, A.Mazurov, A.Plakhov.

Nina Tsyrkun

…And a lady calmed down as the tempest

Review of Julie Taymor's THE TEMPEST (USA).

Innovative moments of Julie Taymor's screen adaptation of the Shakespeare's latest play THE TEMPEST are investigated in comparison with Derek Jarman's and Peter Greenaway's versions. The daughter/mother relations without feminist touch are especially accentuated as well as peculiarities of Helen Mirren's performance as Prospera opposite the same role played by John Gielgud and Heathcote Williams.

THE TEMPEST, Julie Taymor, Derek Jarman, Peter Greenaway, daughter/mother relations, Helen Mirren, Prospera

Anjelika Artyukh

Blood and water

Review of Miaoyan Zhang's BLACK BLOOD (China — France).

Nina Sputnitskaya

A wild dog Klyck, or a tale of the first love for the close-by Review of Slava Ross' SIBERIA, MONAMOUR (Russia).

Veronika Chugunkina

Ordinary fantasy

Review of Stephane Lafleur's En terrains connus (Canada).

Analyzing Stephane Lafleur's Los-Angeles' festival winner EN TERRAINS CONNUS the critic sums up both some peculiarities of minimalist stories about everyday lives of contemporary suburbia's inhabitants and mechanisms of creating contemporary fantasy on this ground.

Minimalism, everyday lives, fantasy, family connection

 

Evgeny Maizel

No kidding

The important events which have recently taken place in three different countries — Germany, Russia and France — and concerned the historical past are analyzed through polar reactions of separate citizens, institutions and society in general. The author argues that these reactions are of special interest as shading undercover social consensus on such painful problems as nazism and Stalinism.

Nazism, Stalinism, reaction, social consensus

Sergei Medvedev

IKEA as the reserve of the middle class

Semyon Ekshtut

Apology of colonel Berg

 

Anton Dolin

Von Trier and Wagner

Pioneering investigation of the common and different in creation of the two prominent authors based on the fundamental knowledge of Trier's works, including MELANCHOLIA, Wagner's operas, writings of the Danish filmmaker and the German composer as well as the director's explication for the theatre staging of the cycle The Ring Of The Nibelung, which have not been accomplished.

Cinema, opera, Wagner, Lars von Trier, theatre staging, The Ring Of The Nibelung

 

Lars von Trier

Act of alienation

Notes on staging of The Ring Of The Nibelung.

Lars von Trier

Valkyrie. The director's explication

 

Myths must be kept exposed

Polish and Russian theatre: history, memory, oblivion.

The round table talk.

Sergei Erlikh

Gipsy encampment comes back to the wedding banquet

Review of Nap Toader's NUNTA IN BASARABIA.

Typology of social and cultural generality of the peoples of two countries and its contemporary transformation, conflicts and contradictions are considered on the example of the Romanian's filmmaker Nap Toader's NUNTA IN BASARABIA. Peculiarities of inheritance of the traditions of Emir Kusturica and Emil Loteanu in contemporary Romanian and Moldavian cinema are also analyzed.

NUNTA IN BASARABIA, Romania and Moldavia, cultural traditions, inheritance, Nap Toader, Emir Kusturica, Emil Loteanu

 

Inna Kushnaryova

James Benning: a man in the landscape

Various aspects of the unique contemporary auteur and artist James Benning, who calls his structural films 'installations for cinema theatres', are investigated. Detailed analysis of different components of Benning's poetics and technology: plan, editing; screen time in its connection with the real; landscape, plastic imagery, combination of visuality and sound.

Structural films, installations for cinema theatres, screen time, plastic imagery, visuality

 

Sergei Muratov

Longsight-vision for radio-viewers

The major milestones of the history of the Soviet Russian TV are considered. Practical experience and fundamental achievements of its theoretical reflection are summarized. The bygone and contemporary strategies of the Federal channels are compared and the deep connection of the real social processes and TV mythology is disclosed.

Soviet TV, history, fundamental achievements, contemporary strategies, TV mythology

 

Olga Gershenson

The Unknown Vinogradov

The commented interview of Valentin Vinogradov, the maker of the unfairly forgotten masterpiece of the Soviet poetic cinema of the 60s — that is THE EASTERN PASSAGE, shelved as the other filmmaker's works due to ideological reasons, that is Jewish theme, and for complicated metaphorical aesthetics. The unknown letter addressed to him by Vasily Shukshin is also published.

Valentin Vinogradov, THE EASTERN PASSAGE, forgotten masterpiece, the Jewish theme, metaphorical aesthetics

 

Irina Rubanova

Their Siberia

Preface.

Pavel Finn, Jerzy Hoffman

My Siberia

A script.