Kinokultura 26

[Birgit Beumers]

The October issue of KinoKultura is now available on line at
www.kinokultura.com/2009/issue26.shtml 
It contains coverage of the Moscow and Sochi film festivals, as well as
reviews of the latest Russian films.

Articles
Evgenii Margolit: “Monumental Sculptures in Soviet Cinema of the 1920s”
Festival Reports
Birgit Beumers: “A Return to Folklore?—Suzdal 2009”
Birgit Beumers, “Kinotavr 2009: The Victory of New Drama”
Christina Stojanova: “Characters and Circumstances: Notes on the Competition
Program of the 31st Moscow International Film Festival”

Film Reviews
Pavel Bardin: Russia 88 by Petre Petrov
Fedor Bondarchuk: Inhabited Island 1 and 2 by Muireann Maguire 
Petr Buslov, Ivan Vyrypaev, Kirill Serebrennikov, Aleksei German Jr, Boris
Khlebnikov: Crush: Five Love Stories by Joshua First
Ivan Dykhovichnyi: Europe-Asia by Alyssa DeBlasio
Sergei Govorukhin: Nobody but us by Susan Corbesero
Boris Khlebnikov: Help Gone Mad by Marcia Landy
Nikolai Khomeriki: Tale about Darkness by Christina Stojanova
Aleksei Mizgirev: Buben, Baraban by Olga Surkova 
Vasilii Sigarev: Wolfy by Mark Lipovetsky
Sergei Snezhkin: Bury me behind the Baseboard by Tatiana Moskvina 
Sergei Soloviev: Anna Karenina by Anindita Banerjee
Sergei Soloviev: 2-Assa-2 by Lilya Kaganovsky
Igor Voloshin: Olympius Inferno by Stephen Hutchings
Ivan Vyrypaev: Oxygen by Sergei Oushakine

Double View: Ivan Bortko’s Taras Bul’ba, reviewed by Ian Appleby and Stephen
Norris

Television
Anton Borshchevskii: Heavy Sand (TV) by Peter Rollberg

Ukraine, Caucasus, and Central Asia  
Kira Muratova: Melody for a Barrel-Organ (UKR) by Nancy Condee 
Georgi Ovashvili: The Other Bank (GEO) by Julie Christensen
Harutyun Khachatryan: Border (ARM) by Karla Oeler
Yolkin Tuychiev: Silence (UZB) by Tom Welsford
Zulfikar Musakov: The House with a Curved Moon (UZB) by David MacFadyen
Zhanna Isabaeva: Oipyrmai (KAZ) by Joe Crescente
Sabit Kurmanbekov: Seker (KAZ) by Jane Knox
Ermek Tursunov: Kelin (KAZ) by Seth Graham

Hope you enjoy the issue!
Your KiKu Team
Dr Birgit Beumers
kinokultura at hotmail.co.uk

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