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Articles by Daniel Witkin
Festival of 'Good and Justice' Visits Moscow
The Message to Man film festival is currently in full swing in St. Petersburg, but Muscovites also get a chance to see a selection of high-quality...
Silent Comedy Masterpiece 'Trubnaya' Returns
Muscovites were treated to a rare screening of the 1928 silent comedy "The House on Trubnaya," directed by Boris Barnet, a film little known but ranked...
Silent Soviet Comedy Gets New Music Show
A 1920s Soviet silent film classic, "The House on Trubnaya," by Boris Barnet, a raucous slapstick comedy, will be shown Tuesday, with live music specially...
Russian Films Take Spotlight in Finland
The Midnight Sun Film Festival in the Finnish town of Sodankylä has been welcoming Russian films since it was founded in 1986, with the help of Aki...
'Erwartung' Honors Schoenberg's Modernist Masterpiece
Issuing from the sophisticated, doomed world of pre-war Vienna, Austrian-Jewish composer Arnold Schoenberg's one-act opera "Erwartung," or "Expectation"...
Star Wars Party Brings Cosplay Fans to Moscow
On a chilly Saturday afternoon, like-minded Muscovites converged to share their enthusiasm for the Star Wars franchise, George Lucas' incredibly successful...
'Cinema of Change' Takes Viewers Back to the Final Years of the USSR
A sleeping man is taken for a corpse by a policeman. A Russian rock icon demands change. Civilization as we know it is wiped out by a nuclear blast. These...
Supermarket Opera Gives a Melodious Voice to Cashiers
Throughout its history, opera has taken audiences to many exotic locales, from ancient Egypt and Babylon to the Valhalla of Teutonic mythology.
In 'Hard to Be God,' the Past is Another Planet
"This is not Earth," begins "Hard to Be a God," the posthumous new film of Russian director Alexei German. Arriving in Moscow about a year after...
Khrzhanovsky's 'Dau' Stuck in Production After Eccentric Shoot
In a replica of 1930s Moscow raised outside the Ukrainian city of Kharkov, a boyish filmmaker and his comrades worked for five years to recreate...