KINOKULTURA 12 (April 2006)

[Vladimir Padunov]

The April issue of Kinokultura (#12) is now available on line.
www.kinokultura.com
This issue features festival reports and articles based on a roundtable at 
AAASS in 2005, as well as film reviews. This issue's video has been awarded 
two top awards at recent festivals!

Contents:
Bauyrzhan Nogerbek: "The Eurasia-2005 Film Festival: Ambitions and 
Realities"
Vladimir Padunov: Storing and Restoring History: Gosfil'mofond and the 10th 
Belye Stolby Archival Film Festival
Thomas Campbell: Five Theses About Timur Bekmambetov's Day Watch

Russian TV-Serials: AAASS Roundtable 2005: "Russian TV: Past Issues of 
Present Concern"
Birgit Beumers: "The Serialization of the War"
David MacFadyen: "The Significance of Brezhnev for Russian TV Drama Today"
Alexander Prokhorov: "Size Matters: The Ideological Functions of the Length 
of Soviet Feature Films and Television Mini-Series in the 1950s and 1960s"

Film Reviews:
Tony Anemone on Aleksei German Jr.'s Garpastum
Anindita Banerjee on Pavel Ruminov's Silent Man
Eva Binder on Aleksandr Strizhanov's 180 and Taller
Stephen Hutchings on Valerii Akhadov's Greenhouse Effect
David MacFadyen on Zul'fikar Musakov's Boys in the Sky 2
Natalya Rulyova on Elena Nikolaeva's Pops
Dawn Seckler on Fedor Bondarchuk's Company 9
Christina Stojanova on Oleg Stepchenko's Velvet Revolution
Denise Youngblood on Aleksei Karelin's A Time to Gather Stones

Video:
Anastasiia Zhuravleva: Caution, the Doors Are Opening!


...And finally we are happy to announce that KinoKultura received a Special 
Diploma from the Guild of Russian Film Scholars and Critics!!! Thank you 
all!

Birgit Beumers and Vladimir Padunov


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Vladimir Padunov
Associate Director, Film Studies Program
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1433 Cathedral of Learning          voice: 1-412-624-5713
University of Pittsburgh               FAX: 1-412-624-9714
Pittsburgh, PA 15260                       padunov at pitt.edu

Russian Film Symposium        http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu

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