experience with Ruscico

[Michael Denner]

Ben!
In what capacity? If you're talking about purchasing films from them,
I've never ordered films directly from them (I didn't know one could
until your email). I've always bought their films via RBCMP3.com, which
has, in my experience, been superlative in their selection and service.
(In fact, I often buy films from rbcmp3.com over eBay:
http://stores.ebay.com/russianDVD-com_W0QQsspagenameZl2QQtZkm -- the
prices are better.)

If you're asking about the quality of the films, RUSISCO's films have
always struck me as extraordinarily fine -- I always use their videos in
my cinema class if Rusisco has released the film. 

The "extra features" are standard, but excellent. I'm looking at the
Sibiriada disc: Three discs, with interviews with the director, art
director, screenplay writer, composer and with the lead actor.
Overdubbed in French, English (and of course you can listen to the
Russian flavor, too). Subtitles in 13 languages, included Arabic,
Chinese and Portuguese. The soundtrack has been remastered into Dolby.
Pretty impressive -- I just listened to it.  All this for under $50. (I
notice that the Rusisco site has it marked as "forthcoming" -- it was
released a couple of months ago.)

Finally, you have to respect their turn-around -- typically less than a
year (e.g., they already have Otets I syn available). 

I'd say that Rusisco is Russia's analogue to the American Criterion
Collection. Higher praise would be harder to gather.

mad


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Dr. Michael A. Denner
Russian Studies Program
Stetson University
Campus Box 8361
DeLand, FL 32724
386.822.7381 (department)
386.822.7265 (direct line)
386.822.7380 (fax)
http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner
http://russianpoetry.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Rifkin [mailto:brifkin at WISC.EDU] 
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:40 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] experience with Ruscico

Dear SEELANGers:

Does anyone have experience with the company Ruscico?

URL is http://www.ruscico.com/

Thanks for any feedback.

With best wishes to all,

Ben Rifkin

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Benjamin Rifkin
Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706 USA
Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic

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