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| |  | NORTHERN GOLGOTHA
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PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION: SOLOVKI Project Description
LITTLE HISTORY
SOLOVKI is an archipelago of small more...islands in the White Sea of Russia, just 50 miles south of the Arctic Circle. 600 years ago it was chosen by a group of monks to establish a monastery and the biggest Orthodox Temple in Russia. For 500 years it was regarded as a Holy Land and visited by innumerous pilgrims from all classes, including peasants, noblemen and royalty. When the Revolution came the sanctuary was destroyed and converted into one of the severest prisons of the GULAG. The prisoners had to dismantle the domes crosses and put up stars instead. Over a million people lost their lives under these stars of the first concentration camp of the Soviet Russia. Many of those killed were from the Russian Intelligencia, men of science and culture. Only after the collapse of the Soviet Empire the monastery was re-established and the restoration work began. The site is now under the protection of UNESCO.
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Added: Mar 21, 08
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|  | CHASING A BUTTERFLY
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CHASING A BUTTERFLY 59 min. NTSC 2005
This is a film about post-Soviet Russia seen more...through the eyes of the filmmaker, as she returns to her home town (Vladivostok, Russian Far East) after a decade of absence with the intention of resettling there. Unusual places, unusual characters, unusual ways-about, unusual mentality becomes a colorful and contrasting carousel of her welcome-home. And she comes to the realization that there is no place for her in this drastically changed country. She decides to sell her apartment and come back to New York. The symbolic butterfly of fulfillment and happiness she was trying to find there lives neither in Russia or New York, but within.
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Added: Mar 21, 08
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| |  | REINCARNATION
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REINCARNATION 58 min. NTSC 2005
Reincarnation is a poetic documentary on one of the greatest more...American artists Isadora Duncan living through her followers at the present time.
Mysteriously, after over the century passed from the time she lived, Isadora imposes her art and philosophy on contemporary artists who are compelled to keep doing her movement and preserve her choreography, though it seems to be quite outdated.
One of the offspring of Isadora, one of her reincarnations is the founder and artistic director of Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation Lori Belilove. Through Loris life and work, through the art of her students and company members, through the lines of a theatrical play conceived by Lori, the image and entire persona of Isadora Duncan comes alive.
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Added: Mar 21, 08
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|  | COUSINS
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COUSINS 92 min. Comedy NTSC 2007
After a few years of separation a young Russian girl more...Olga comes to New York to reunite with her boyfriend Sasha who defected from his ballroom dance team at the International competition. Sasha lives with his American girlfriend Susan whom he tells that Olga, a circus artist, is his cousin. The situation becomes quite uncomfortable: Olga, who doesn?t speak English, is jealous, Sasha is confused and Susan is suspicious. She demands to place Olga somewhere else. Thus start Olga?s adventures in the US. She is placed with one person, then another and another, and every time something doesn?t work, until Susan decides to send her to her cousin Dave who once expressed a desire to be set with some Russian girl after learning that his cousin has a Russian boyfriend. Dave tries to start a relationship with Olga, but cultural differences and her feelings for Sasha prevent their romance from happening.
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Added: Mar 21, 08
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| |  | DANCE TO LIVE
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Dance to Live: Philadanco Dancemakers is essentially a sympathetic documentary about the well-known dance company based in Philadelphia. It passes up more...on filming formal dance numbers from the company?s repertoire ? though we do get a glimpse or two of the company in action ? in favor of presenting self-portraits of company members, mostly of the dancers themselves but also of a choreographer, a rehearsal assistant, and the company?s founder and director, the very impressive Joan Myers Brown. More than once we hear the soundtrack pontificate, ?Dance is thought made visible,? yet the film relies very much on the spoken word. The members? stories vary, and one or two of the stories are pitifully poignant (a man who dances in homage to his sister paralyzed from the neck down), but the message is always the same, some version of Gene Kelly?s wistful evocation in Singing in the Rain, ?Gotta Dance!? The film does supply images to go along with the message. The dancers exercise, rehearse, improvise. Sweat drips from their brows. Their deep rhythmic breathing is amplified on the soundtrack. A syncopated drum ? all we see are the drummer?s hands, the left hand regularly moving over to strike a minor chord on the nearby piano ? supplies most of the music. A few imaginative montages add to the artistic mix. In all, a worthy addition to the valuable group of films documenting different American dance companies.
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Added: Mar 21, 08
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|  | MR. BROWN
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MR. BROWN 88 min. Drama NTSC 2007
Mr. Brown is a middle-aged handicapped black man in more...a wheel chair. He endlessly listens to music, reads books and looks out the window to oversee the roofs of neighboring houses in Harlem. Nothing breaks his monotonous loneliness except for the visits of two helpers - a young Russian woman-social worker and a young black man-home attendant who merely do their duties. But in Mr. Browns imagination they all have a passionate affair. The home attendant loves the social worker but is very jealous of her because she is madly in love with Mr. Brown, and Mr. Brown himself is in love with the home attendant-boy. These relationships develop gradually over continuous visits of two helpers. And in Mr. Browns world their passion is expressed through the dance. Unable to withstand the energy of love and possession Mr. Brown kills the home attendant and sinks into a prison of his loneliness and wheel chair.
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Added: Mar 21, 08
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| |  | FORBIDDEN FOOT
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"A lonely misfit with a foot fetish embarks on a
passionate quest to discover the perfect instep in
director Natasha Guruleva's quirky tale of more...love
beneath the ankles."
Jason Buchanan, ALL MOVIE GUIDE
(movies.nytimes.com)
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Added: Mar 21, 08
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|  | Russian Bride
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"A young woman whose ad in a Catalog of Russian Brides was answered by a lonely New York City programmer finds that adjusting to life in the United States more...is more of a challenge than she ever anticipated in director Natasha Guruleva's soul searching drama. All Tanya wanted was to escape her bleak surroundings and experience love, happiness, and prosperity in a new land. When middle-aged programmer Blake answered her ad in the catalog, it seemed as if Tanya's future was finally coming into focus..." - Jason Buchanan, ALL MOVIE GUIDE less
Added: Mar 21, 08
Views: 136
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