admin | Cinema of the World

January 25, 2025

1 2,275

Yakov Protazanov – Chelovek iz restorana aka The Man From Restaurant (1927)

Based on story by Ivan Shmelev. The movie action starts very close before February democratic revolution in Russia in 1917.…

November 17, 2025

2 2,968

Amazon.com— This ambitious 1979 Russian film attempts no less a feat than the encapsulation of the tumultuous history of Russia…

July 17, 2022

2 2,793

Richard Harris stars as a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental…

April 7, 2024

1 2,617

Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson (from allmovie.com)Nikita Mikhalkov examines the plight of the filmmaker operating in an uncertain political climate…

October 30, 2023

1 2,584

Synopsis:St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps…

March 22, 2024

0 2,781

Vincent Canby @ The New York Times, Feb 17, 1972 wrote: Probably no man, not even Norman Mailer, will ever…

July 28, 2025

2 4,276

Quote: Documentary film-maker Bob Saunders and his wife Carol attend a group therapy session that serves as the backdrop for…

June 23, 2026

0 4,191

Cult “pink” director Hisayasu Sato’s films typically focus on unusual relationships among the alienated dregs of urban society, and this…

February 7, 2019

0 2,255

Review (by Jamie Russell,) : Life is cheap in this searing Brazilian documentary about the real-life hijacking of a bus…