Kinokultura 24

[Birgit Beumers]

KinoKultura is pleased to announce that the latest issue, 24: April 2009 is
now out. It contains a range of film reviews and some fascinating articles
and festival reports. Hope you enjoy.

Articles
Nikolai Izvolov: Designed Sound in the USSR
Jane Knox-Voina: New ‘New’ Wave Filmmakers Welcome Their Audiences’
Discomfort: Kazakh and Kyrgyz Youth Films
Gulnara Abikeeva: Central Asian Documentary Films of the Soviet Era as a
Factor in the Formation of National Identity
Festival Report by Gulbara Tolomushova: The Secret Sense of the Tashkent
Messages

Film Reviews
Aleksei German Jr: Paper Soldier by Julian Graffy
Arkadi Iakhnis: The Horror Which is Always with You by Lars Kristensen
Filipp Iankovskii: Rock Head  by Dawn Seckler
Tigran Keosaian: Mirage by Elena Monastireva-Ansdell
Pavel Lungin: Lilac Branch by Tim Harte
Aleksandr Mel'nikov: Terra Nova by Kevin M. F. Platt
Sergei Mokritskii: Four Ages of Love by Anthony Anemone
Sergei Ovcharov: The Garden by Stephen M. Norris
Andres Puustusmaa: The Red Pearl of Love by Sasha Razor
Katia Shagalova: Once upon a Time in the Provinces by Gerry McCausland
Vadim Shmelev: S.S.D. by Olga Mesropova
Peeter Simm: Georg by Marko Dumančić
Elena Suni: Veronika isn’t Coming by Emily Hillhouse
Aleksei Uchitel': The Captive by Joe Andrew
Marius Vaisberg: Hitler kaput! by Elena Prokhorova

Double View: Andrei Kravchuk's Admiral
•    by Denise Youngblood
•    by David MacFadyen

Documentaries, Animation and Television Serials
Sergei Loznitsa: The Siege (doc) by Polina Barskova
Vladimir Pozner: One-Storey America (TV) by Alexander Prokhorov
Natal’ia Bondarchuk: The One Love of My Soul (TV) by Peter Rollberg
Georgii Gitis: The Adventures of Alenushka and Yerioma (animation) by Lora
Mjolsness

Central Asian Cinema
Rustem Abdrashev: A Gift to Stalin (Kaz) by Jamie Miller

Video
Trailer of Alisa’s Birthday by Sergei Seregin, Masterfilm 

Dr Birgit Beumers, Department of Russian Studies
University of Bristol, 17 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TE, United Kingdom
Tel +44 117 928 7596
Editor, www.kinokultura.com
Editor, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 

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