Podcasts about Russian Ark

Corbin and Ellis talk about the new proliferation of tracking takes at the dawn of digital cinema, focusing in particular on "Children of Men,' Alfonso Cauron's movie about the whole world losing their minds when fertility ends. Also metioned: Timecode, Russian Ark, video games, Gravity, and 1917.  Matt reccomends an album. Corbin reccomends a movie.  Next week's episode is about APOCOLYPTO, which you can watch on Hulu. 

Statham. Handheld cameras. Offensive stuff. Insane continuity. Statham. Violence. Statham. Statham. Statham. Statham. It's Crank, baby.  Matt reccomends this article. Corbin reccomends this article. Next week's episode is about tracking shots, you could watch Children of Men and/or Russian Ark, but you don't have to, I don't think. 

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Send us a Text Message.From the famous speeding train of 1896 to the groundbreaking Russian Ark and iconic Berlin night-out-gone-wrong flick Victoria, this week we take you through the illustrious history of one-take movies - or should it be one-shot movies?ReferencesHot takes: a short history of the one-shot movie in 11 attempts by Matthew Thrift for BFIInterview with Medusa Deluxe director Thomas HardimanThe 10 worst Martin Scorsese movies by Joe Williams for Far OutIn One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (Making of) on YouTube-----------If you love what we do, please like, subscribe and leave a review!Original music by James BrailsfordLogo design by Abby-Jo SheldonFollow usEmail us

Movie of the Year: 2002Finale Part ThreeIt is time to finish picking 2002's Movie of the Year in our 2002 Finale Part Three!We work really hard on each of the seasons of this show. We do it because it means a lot to us and because that is what the movies deserve. The 2002 season was even more work than we usually do—it was intense. Yet, here we are, at the end of it, and it's hard not to be just a little sad. 2002 was a bonkers year and the movies are full of a sense of overwrought pride and mounting, undirected aggression. The movies are fun but sometimes in a way that seems manic. A smiling face turned away from a burning house.But we need to move on. A new season awaits us, full of promise, movies, and lost episodes. As we turn out the lights on this season, we say goodbye to some of our favorite films. Who can forget the pure entertainment of Chicago? The pluck and artistic courage of Russian Ark? And I know we will never forget all the things we said about this season's very special lost episode recipient, Unfaithful.And you know we have a sack full of Mooties to bestow! All this AND the stuff that I remembered but cheekily neglected to mention!Visit our websiteUse our Amazon page!Join our Patreon team! (to get the show early and hear bonus segments!)Like us!Follow us!While Americans overwhelmingly support the right of an individual to make their own decisions about abortion, unfortunately, that right is no longer protected everywhere in the U.S.The Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade on June 24th.Abortion is a basic healthcare need for the millions of people who can become pregnant. Everyone should have the freedom to decide what's best for themselves and their families, including when it comes to ending a pregnancy. This decision has dire consequences for individual health and safety, and could have harsh repercussions for other landmark decisions.Restricting access to comprehensive reproductive care, including abortion, threatens the health and independence of all Americans. Even if you live in a state where abortion rights are upheld, access to safe medical procedures shouldn't be determined by location, and it shouldn't be the privilege of a small few.You can help by donating to local abortion funds. To find out where to donate for each state, visit donations4abortion.com.If you or someone you know needs help, or if you want to get more involved, here are 5 resources:1. Shout Your Abortion is a campaign to normalize abortion.2. Don't Ban Equality is a campaign for companies to take a stand against abortion restrictions.3. Abortion.cafe has information about where...

Movie of the Year: 20022002 Avengers DraftWe take some time away from picking the 2002 Movie of the Year to pick our 2002 heroes in a 2002 Avengers Draft!The podcast hosts start by discussing the overall quality of 2002 action properties. They highlight which stuff stood out as being particularly innovative or effective at creating excitement, and which ones fell flat. They also discuss any notable trends or themes that emerged within their viewing of Russian Ark.The hosts then dive deeper into some of the individual characters, providing their own insights and critiques. They discuss the plot, characters, performances, cinematography, and overall atmosphere of each picture or whatever, as well as any standout moments or parts of the film that stuck with them.Throughout the episode, the hosts also touch on broader topics related to the movie, such as the role of drama in society, the psychology of identity, and the ways in which appreciation of the film has evolved over time.Ultimately, a "Movie of the Year" podcast episode about 2002's best movies aims to provide listeners with a comprehensive overview of the year's dramatic offerings , as well as thoughtful insights and analysis from knowledgeable and passionate hosts.Visit our websiteUse our Amazon page!Join our Patreon team! (to get the show early and hear bonus segments!)Like us!Follow us!While Americans overwhelmingly support the right of an individual to make their own decisions about abortion, unfortunately, that right is no longer protected everywhere in the U.S.The Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade on June 24th.Abortion is a basic healthcare need for the millions of people who can become pregnant. Everyone should have the freedom to decide what's best for themselves and their families, including when it comes to ending a pregnancy. This decision has dire consequences for individual health and safety, and could have harsh repercussions for other landmark decisions.Restricting access to comprehensive reproductive care, including abortion, threatens the health and independence of all Americans. Even if you live in a state where abortion rights are upheld, access to safe medical procedures shouldn't be determined by location, and it shouldn't be the privilege of a small few.You can help by donating to local abortion funds. To find out where to donate for each state, visit donations4abortion.com.If you or someone you know needs help, or if you want to get more involved, here are 5 resources:1. Shout Your Abortion is a campaign to normalize abortion.2. Don't Ban Equality is a campaign for companies to take a stand against abortion restrictions.3. Abortion.cafe has...

Movie of the Year: 2002Russian ArkRussian Ark has one shot to be our 2002 Movie of the Year!The podcast hosts start by discussing the overall quality of Russian Ark. They highlight which stuff stood out as being particularly innovative or effective at creating emotion, and which ones fell flat. They also discuss any notable trends or themes that emerged within their viewing of Russian Ark.The hosts then dive deeper into some of the individual things, providing their own reviews and critiques. They discuss the plot, characters, performances, cinematography, and overall atmosphere of each picture or whatever, as well as any standout moments or parts of the film that stuck with them.Throughout the episode, the hosts also touch on broader topics related to the movie, such as the role of drama in society, the psychology of identity, and the ways in which appreciation of the film has evolved over time.Ultimately, a "Movie of the Year" podcast episode about 2002's best movies aims to provide listeners with a comprehensive overview of the year's dramatic offerings , as well as thoughtful insights and analysis from knowledgeable and passionate hosts.Visit our websiteUse our Amazon page!Join our Patreon team! (to get the show early and hear bonus segments!)Like us!Follow us!While Americans overwhelmingly support the right of an individual to make their own decisions about abortion, unfortunately, that right is no longer protected everywhere in the U.S.The Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade on June 24th.Abortion is a basic healthcare need for the millions of people who can become pregnant. Everyone should have the freedom to decide what's best for themselves and their families, including when it comes to ending a pregnancy. This decision has dire consequences for individual health and safety, and could have harsh repercussions for other landmark decisions.Restricting access to comprehensive reproductive care, including abortion, threatens the health and independence of all Americans. Even if you live in a state where abortion rights are upheld, access to safe medical procedures shouldn't be determined by location, and it shouldn't be the privilege of a small few.You can help by donating to local abortion funds. To find out where to donate for each state, visit donations4abortion.com.If you or someone you know needs help, or if you want to get more involved, here are 5 resources:1. Shout Your Abortion is a campaign to normalize abortion.2. Don't Ban Equality is a campaign for companies to take a stand against abortion restrictions.3. Abortion.cafe has information about where to find clinics.4.

In this meeting, we discuss Russian Ark (2002). Next time, we will be discussing Official Competition (2021).

In this meeting, we discuss Enchanted (2007). Next time, we will be discussing Russian Ark (2002).

Movie of the Year: 2002Introduction, Part 2 The 2002 Movie of the Year Introduction Part 2 is here; what eight movies will make up this season? 2002! Oh, how I wish that were the number of movies we got to watch and not just year that will make up this season. But that wouldn't be fair. Not to us. Not to you. And not to the most important part of the entire podcast: the movies. We swore a sacred oath to only have eight movies in a season. Hard decisions make this show what it is: a source of comfort to the entire nation. If we were going to expand the bracket, even a little, we would completely change everything about the show. So I guess we won't be doing that. However, you can see why we would be tempted. Talk to Her, a Spanish-language film, came out this year and it is maybe the best movie most Americans have never heard of. You got Russian Ark, another foreign film that is high-concept and exciting--movies like this are the reason we love doing the show. And that's not even mentioning the movies that are so big that we could never overlook them: Spider-Man, Minority Report, and Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. What's a show to do? Make sure to also: https://challonge.com/moty2002 (Check out the 2002 bracket) https://popfilter.co/ (Visit our website) https://popfilter.co/amazon (Use our Amazon page!) http://patreon.com/yourpopfilter (Join our Patreon team! (to get the show early and hear bonus segments!)) http://facebook.com/yourpopfilter (Like us!) http://twitter.com/yourpopfilter (Follow us!) While Americans overwhelmingly support the right of an individual to make their own decisions about abortion, unfortunately, that right is no longer protected everywhere in the U.S. The Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade on June 24th. Abortion is a basic healthcare need for the millions of people who can become pregnant. Everyone should have the freedom to decide what's best for themselves and their families, including when it comes to ending a pregnancy. This decision has dire consequences for individual health and safety, and could have harsh repercussions for other landmark decisions. Restricting access to comprehensive reproductive care, including abortion, threatens the health and independence of all Americans. Even if you live in a state where abortion rights are upheld, access to safe medical procedures shouldn't be determined by location, and it shouldn't be the privilege of a small few. You can help by donating to local abortion funds. To find out where to donate for each state, visit http://www1.donation4abortion.com/?tm=1&subid4=1657135324.0254620000&kw=Donate+To+Support+Abortion+Access&KW1=Donate%20To%20Support%20Abortion%20Access&KW2=Emergency%20Medical%20Funding&KW3=Find%20A%20Womens%20Health%20Clinic&searchbox=0&domainname=0&backfill=0 (donations4abortion.com). If you or someone you know needs help, or if you want to get more involved, here are 5 resources: 1.  https://shoutyourabortion.com/ (Shout Your Abortion) is a campaign to normalize abortion. 2. https://dontbanequality.com/ (Don't Ban Equality) is a campaign for companies to take a stand against abortion restrictions. 3. https://abortion.cafe/ (Abortion.cafe) has information about where to find clinics. 4. https://www.plancpills.org/ (PlanCPills.org) provides early at-home abortion pills that you can keep in your medicine cabinet. And five. 5. https://choice.crd.co/ (Choice.crd.co) has a collection of these resources and more. You can also find links to all of these resources and more info at https://www.podvoices.help/ (podvoices.help)

The Russian Ark Gallery presents emerging Russian figurative art. The works of St. Petersburg artists are bought by experienced collectors, mainly from Europe and the USA. The gallery is run from Sydney. This is a Russian language content. - Галерея "Русский ковчег" - The Russian Ark Gallery - представляет молодое российское фигуративное искусство. Работы питерских художников покупают опытные коллекционеры, в основном из Европы и США. А управляется галерея из Сиднея.

For the month of July, we will be discussing "one-shot" films (which are movies that emulate or successfully are in one long continuous shot).Join us this week as  we take a look at the 2002 experimental historical drama, Russian Ark!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/MediaDrome)

The Movie Amigos attempt to stump each other with a lump of trivia. We like movies and we're amigos. Join us and be our movie amigos. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/movieamigospodcast/ Find us wherever you listen to podcasts! Letterboxd profiles: Gila https://letterboxd.com/gilasantos1/ Josh https://letterboxd.com/joshman972/ Juve https://letterboxd.com/mrfalcon/ Movies mentioned this episode: The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) Parasite (2019) Captain America (1990) It's A Wonderful Life (1946) La Dolce Vita (1960) Toy Story (1995) Toy Story 2 (1999) Highlander (1986) Finding Nemo (2003) Coco (2017) Roma (2018) Y Tu Mamá También (2001) Amorres Perros (2000) How to Be a Latin Lover (2017) Machete (2010) La Misma Luna / Under The Same Moon (2007) Instructions Not Included (2013) Nosotros los Nobles / The Noble Family (2013) No Manches Frida / El Profesor Sustituto (2016) No Manches Frida 2: Paraíso Destruido (2019) Mirreyes contra Godínez / Mirreyes vs Godínez (2019) ¿Qué Culpa Tiene el Niño? / Don't Blame the Kid (2016) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Cinderella (1950) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Taxi Driver (1976) Some Like it Hot (1959) Midnight Cowboy (1969) The Graduate (1967) Kramer vs Kramer (1979) Meet the Fockers (2004) My Week With Marilyn (2011) The King's Speech (2010) The Iron Lady (2011) Shakespeare in Love (1998) Lincoln (2012) The Room (2003) The Passion of the Christ (2004) Halloween (1978) The Thing (1982) Titanic (1997) Schindler's List (1993) The Godfather (1972) Jaws (1975) The Kid (1921) City Lights (1931) Citizen Kane (1941) Casablanca (1942) The Night of the Hunter (1955) Courageous (2011) I Believe (2017) God's Not Dead (2014) Fireproof (2008) Left Behind: The Movie (2000) Left Behind (2014) Deadpool 2 (2018) Speed (1994) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Mary Poppins (1964) Stuart Little (1999) Osmosis Jones (2001) Mary Poppins Returns (2018) Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) Paddington (2014) Hop (2011) Peter Rabbit (2018) Tom and Jerry (2021) Air Bud (1997) Space Jam (1996) The Jungle Book (2016) Planet of the Apes (1968) Christopher Robin (2018) Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel / Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 (2009) Avatar (2009) Teenage Mutant Nunja Turtles (2014) Ted (2012) The Smurfs (2011) Bring It On: All or Nothing / Bring It On Yet Again (2006) 1917 (2019) Victoria (2015) Enter the Void (2009) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) Russian Ark (2002) Rope (1948) Macbeth / The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971) The Last Airbender (2010) Both intro and outro music: Beat provided by https://freebeats.io Produced by White Hot RELEASE CODE: 55514 For any inquiries: Email us at movieamigospodcast@gmail.com

An Impossible Project. On this episode we are joined by Jens Meurer . Jens is a Berlin-based filmmaker who first directed documentaries in the Soviet Union, South Africa, Israel and the USA, and then produced the Oscar-nominated The Last Station; Paul Verhoeven's Black Book; Russian Ark; and Carlos, which received a Golden Globe in 2011. Please support the Mark and Me Podcast here https://www.patreon.com/Markandme

Because why the hell not? Marcus Bronzy presents 10 Movies Only Directed As Experiments...ENJOY!Follow us on Twitter:@MarcusBronzy@WhatCultureFor more awesome content, check out: whatculture.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

MDR KULTUR-Filmkritiker Knut Elstermann stellt drei Filme vor, die ins Museum führen: "Girls/Museum", "Das große Museum" und "Russian Ark".

Special: The Cinematography Podcast- War Stories Vol. 4 In our fourth War Stories Special, we feature eleven guest's harrowing, hilarious or heartwarming stories they had while on set, or a formative career experience that led them to cinematography. Find full interviews with each of our featured cinematographers in our archives! Cinematographer Quyen Tran on her life-changing experience after 9/11 in New York; Mike Figgis and a nearly disastrous screening of Timecode; Dan Laustsen tells the story of how his sister influenced him to go to film school; Abe Martinez serendipitously found the perfect house while staying in Kenya; Bill Wages was dissuaded early on from becoming a National Geographic Magazine photographer; Larry Fong talks about getting his big break with JJ Abrams on Lost; Vanja Černjul on his secret to decompressing after wrapping on a big shoot; Rachel Morrison's story of making a huge mistake as a set P.A. with Matty Libatique; Linus Sandgren on his early days working as a gaffer with a seasoned electrician; Stefan Ciupek talks about the blooper in the single-take film, Russian Ark; and finally, Matty Libatique on getting real concert footage for A Star Is Born. Do you have a War Story you'd like to share? Send us an email or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! Find out even more about this episode, with extensive show notes and links: http://camnoir.com/warstories4/ Sponsored by Hot Rod Cameras: www.hotrodcameras.com Website: www.camnoir.com Facebook: @cinepod Instagram: @thecinepod Twitter: @ShortEndz

Connor & Jon try to examine both 300 years of Russian history AND one of the most daring films in the 21st century with Russian Ark. They are both awed and mystified by the technicality of the film, but does it come at the cost of story elements?WARNING: Major spoilers for Russian Ark , The Sacrifice, & Birdman, Minor spoilers for FrancofoniaFollow us:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rulesoftheframe/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rulesoftheframe  Twitter: https://twitter.com/RulesOfTheFrameYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCII7_Fevn8na1ZkXyfUeTQA/featuredFilms mentioned in this episode:---------------------------------Russian Ark (2002) | Dir. Alexander SokurovRope (1948) | Dir. Alfred HitchcockBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) | Dir. Alejandro G. Inarritu1917 (2019) | Dir. Sam MendesChicago (2002) | Dir. Rob MarshallThe Blues Brothers (1980) | Dir. John LandisBattleship Potemkin (1925) | Dir. Sergei EisensteinStrike (1925) | Dir. Sergei EisensteinNostalghia (1983) | Dir. Andrei TarkovskyThe Sacrifice (1986) | Dir. Andrei TarkovskyDunkirk (2017) | Dir. Christopher NolanNosferatu (1922) | Dir. F.W. MurnauInception (2010) | Dir. Christopher NolanBoyhood (2014) | Dir. Richard LinklaterBaraka (1992) | Dir. Ron FrickeSamsara (2011) | Dir. Ron FrickeThe Qatsi Trilogy (1982-2002) | Dir. Godfrey ReggioPalm Springs (2020)| Dir. Max BarbakowO Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | Dir. Joel & Ethan CoenThe Room (2003) | Dir. Tommy WiseauSlumdog Millionaire (2008) | Dir. Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan127 Hours (2010) | Dir. Danny BoyleTouch of Evil (1958) | Dir. Orson WellesLast Year at Marienbad (1961) | Dir. Alain ResnaisHiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) | Dir. Alain ResnaisFrancofonia (2015) | Dir. Alexander SokurovMad Max: Fury Road (2015) | Dir. George MillerAndrei Rublev (1966) | Dir. Andrei TarkovskyGettysburg (1993) | Dir. Ron Maxwell

Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher!Send us a message!Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud.Matt and Gabe go into a thorough analysis of John Frankenheimer's Ronin.Discussed on the episode:TombstoneSnowman and the Art of EditingThe Silence of the LambsIce AgeOutrage CodaThe Killers (1946)Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers"John FrankenheimerDavid MametMichael LonsdaleBaby DriverRussian ArkThe Amazing Spider-man 2

Dan and Alonso record an episode in one take to explore two movies that tell their stories in what appears to be one uninterrupted shot -- Sam Mendes 1917 (2019) and Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE (1948).1917: https://www.amazon.com/1917-George-MacKay/dp/B082MQMWV7?tag=alonsoduralde-20Rope: https://www.amazon.com/Rope-Alfred-Hitchcock/dp/B009CGQHI2/?tag=alonsoduralde-20Alonso recommends:Russian Ark: https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Ark-Sergey-Dreyden/dp/B018DYKEGO/?tag=alonsoduralde-20Swoon: https://www.amazon.com/Swoon-Daniel-Schlachet/dp/B009YYRELG/?tag=alonsoduralde-20

Amiguinhos, hoje vamos falar do Nalgas Film Club. O NFC foi criado recentemente pelas Nalgas para potenciar o gosto pelas cinematografias obscuras e menos conhecidas. Cada semana uma Nalga sugere um filme para depois ser discutido. Alguns virão parar aqui, como esta Arca Russa.

Ally is joined Moscow resident and YouTuber Jonny Tickle to discuss this meandering, mysterious walk through Russian history and St Petersberg's Hermitage Museum, filmed in a single continuous take. Expect SPOILERS from about 38 minutes in until the end.Russian Ark stars Sergei Dreiden.If you enjoyed this episode, please follow and rate us on Podchaser: www.podchaser.com/russophilesunitemoviepodcast Find Jonny Tickle on Twitter at: @jonnytickleOr visit Jonny's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKvzrcnSazCp5gYNbEaFHyg Aleksandr Sokurov, Russian Ark by Birgit Beumers: hwww.intellectbooks.com/aleksandr-sokurov  Publish with Intellect Books: www.intellectbooks.com/why-publish-with-usThe show's intro music is Cold by Sasha Ilyukevich and the Highly Skilled Migrants. You can find more of their music at: https://thehighlyskilledmigrants.bandcamp.com/ Or: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1cXWmfhuDWyfKfsYADk96F If you'd like to get in touch and tell us what you thought of the film and/or the podcast episode, it would be great to hear from you! Here are some ways you can do that: Twitter: @RussophilesU Email: russophilesunite@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/russophilesunite Instagram: www.instagram.com/russophiles_unite/ Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/Ally_ Support the show/fund Ally's caffeine habit at: https://ko-fi.com/russophilesunite Find Ally's other podcast appearances at: https://www.podchaser.com/creators/alistair-pitts-107ZzmUqmI

The Cinematography Podcast Episode 68: Stefan Ciupek Stefan Ciupek became interested in film while growing up in East Germany, but his options were limited in what was then a Communist country. His family managed to escape to Poland, and movies became a refuge from difficult times. In fact, Stefan and his mother were able to pirate Western films and re-sell them as bootlegs. His family managed to move to West Berlin, and by the age of 16, Stefan had a videocamera and started studying film in Germany. Stefan became one of the first adopters of digital camera technology, and became an early digital imaging technician (DIT) and colorist. He helped pull off an amazing achievement with 2003's Russian Ark, a 90 minute film shot entirely in one take, in one location. After his accomplishments on Russian Ark, cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle found him and the two worked on several projects, including 127 Hours and Slumdog Millionaire, which became the first digital film to win an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Best Picture. As digital technology became more technical, Stefan decided he wanted to be more involved in the creative process and returned to cinematography. He shot director Lulu Wang's first film, Posthumous, as well as several episodes of the upcoming season of The Spanish Princess on Starz. For Guns Akimbo, Stefan read the script and immediately knew how he would shoot it. Everything in the action movie is highly exaggerated and over-the-top. Stefan used the Red Monstro camera, a variety of different lenses and high key lighting to highlight some of the humor. You can see Guns Akimbo streaming now on Vudu and Amazon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFatKD0Vzo Find out even more about this episode, with extensive show notes and links: http://camnoir.com/ep68/ LIKE AND FOLLOW US, send fan mail or suggestions! Website: www.camnoir.com Facebook: @cinepod Instagram: @thecinepod Twitter: @ShortEndz Brought to you by Hot Rod Cameras: Find your next camera, lens, light or accessory at https://hotrodcameras.com/ Hot Rod Cameras is giving away TWO professional, cinema quality Aputure MC lights! One for you AND a friend you tag! Go to http://hotrodcameras.com/giveaway to enter. Contest ends March 30, 2020.

The movies!  Normally they have a bunch of shots all edited together.  But sometimes it's just one shot going on forever, hoping an actor doesn't mess up and ruin everything!  Today on Adult Films, the first ever podcast about movies, tha boyz are joined by comedian and filmmaker Dan Garcia, to talk all about movies that get it all done in one shot - or at least trick us into thinking they do!  We're talking Rope, Russian Ark, Birdman, 1917, and so much more!  Plus a round of some game I forget which one we did and RECOMMENDATIONS!

In this episode we talk about Golden Globe winning and Academy Award nominated film "1917" by director Sam Mendes. Made to look as if it was shot in one take, we also talk about a true one take film, 2002's "Russian Ark"   Oh yeah, and we drink some beer. 

Check out our premium community, join hundreds of Catholics from all over thw world! www.coffinnation.com **************************************************************   Here is my review for the new Sam Mendes World War 1 drama, 1917. The movie showcases a wise blend of newcomers and veterans. Director Sam Mendes has decades of experience in the theater and went on to direct movies like American Beauty, Skyfall, and Road to Perdition I just read that he directed Dame Judi Dench on the stage in England at the age of 24. The Director of Photography is Academy Award winner, Roger Deakins, whose credits include Kundun, The Shawshank Redemption, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, and the underrated movie “The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford” based on a book by Deacon Ron Hanson. 1917 blends together all that experience to deliver a quiet wallop. While the subject matter is harrowing and mostly terrifying, one has to use the word beautiful to describe the visuals throughout. More on that in a moment. Two very well-known actors have small but critical roles as military commanders, Benedict Cumberbatch—who has one of the most magnificent speaking voices in the world—and Colin Firth. Both of these great actors seem born to play characters from the past. On the other hand, Mendes’ co-writer is a relative newcomer Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who has written a few short films and a TV series. There’s nothing green showing here, though. The dialogue is pithy and rings true to the context and the period. Almost unknowns in the two lead roles: Dean-Charles Chapman as Lance Corporal Blake and George MacKay as Lance Corporal Schofield. These are fine young actors who are mostly unknown to American audiences. and this is a good thing because, from the opening scene, they are a blank slate. The fact that both characters are a bit on the bland side is also a plus because they become “everyman” making it easier to vicariously follow their mission behind enemy lines and alert a British general to halt an invasion that intelligence has discovered is a German trap. The emotional stakes have to do with the fact that Lance Corporal Blake's brother is set to be unleashed into this trap along with 1600 other British soldiers. And this is where 1917 draws an easy comparison with “Saving Private Ryan.” The brutal depiction of what was called The War to End All Wars coupled with the emotional impact of saving a brother makes for a very watchable movie. But 1917 in its basic story components it's much more similar to Gallipoli, the 1981 World War One drama that proved to the world that Mel Gibson could you more as an actor than motorbike to the desert a black leather outfit and bad hair. Gallipoli and 1917 share the same trope of gung ho soldiers maybe or maybe not being stopped before going over the top into enemy fire. No spoiler alerts, so I’ll stop right there on that. 1917 opens and closes with bookend images that show how many physical and emotional miles the characters have undergone. Again, simple and unadorned. Everyone's talking about the single continuous shot which of course is not literally true, as was the case with the Oscar-winning Birdman, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu. It WAS the case with the 2002 movie Russian Ark, directed by Alexander Sokurov, and LITERALLY a 90-minute continuous steadicam shot. With 1917, Mendes and Deakins have pulled off a two-hour magic trick by seamlessly blending the cuts along the way to give the uncanny appearance of one single camera perspective, mostly handheld and mostly traveling backward which adds to the sense of disorientation. If you're wondering where they spent the estimated 100 million dollar budget, this is it. cameras mounted on dollies, on cranes, on steady-cam operators, and even on motorcycles, all to take the viewer on a dangerous and unpredictable adventure into hell. Unlike with most war stories that introduce the characters’ backstories, 1917 jumps right into the mission, we don't know who these men are, we're not sure where they came from, we're only half sure of where they're going, And we certainly don't know if they'll live through it. 1917  does not have the same explicit blood and guts visuals of a “Saving Private Ryan.” The obstacles met and the dangers faced by the two leads is more Hitchcock than Spielberg. The non-stop action includes a few stops for breathers, one of which is a beautiful scene involving a young French woman and a baby in the middle of a German-controlled village. I'll mention one more. Special mention here goes to a haunting rendition of a 19th-century gospel ballad called “Wayfaring Stranger,” which has been covered by Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Ed Sheeran, and Jack White. In 1917, we are treated to an angelic acapella version by actor Jos Slovick, who, standing in the middle of the clearing in the forest in front of absolutely exhausted sitting men—many of them teenagers—sings the song like a liturgical hymn. It's one of those memorable movie moments that provides a consoling elixir for both the characters and the audience. For a few moments, a war-torn forest becomes a cathedral. It reminded me of the montage scene with Jose Feliciano haunting version of “California Dreamin’” smack in the middle of Quentin Tarantino's Masterpiece black comedy, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” All this to say that 1917 is going to clean up at Oscar time. Finally, an Academy Award win that makes sense! _____________________________________________________________________  

In this episode we discuss the job of the trailer assistant editor, and the many things we learned on the job. What does an assistant editor do? What are their day to day tasks, and how many varieties of tea do they need to keep track of? We also discuss the trailers for 6 Underground, The Gentlemen and Free Guy. Trailers Discussed: 6 Underground, The Gentlemen, Free Guy, 1917 Featurette, Russian Ark, They Shall Not Grow Old, Boyhood, The King's Man. If you have questions or comments please send them to cutdown@idlethumbs.net. Join us in the Idle Forums to discuss this week's episode!

This episode Stephen goes to Russia, and looks at two films that push cinema in different places. He starts by looking at how Andrei Tarkovsky laughs at silly concepts such as linear time in "Mirror", and then sees how Alexander Sokurov’s “Russian Ark” gives a history lesson in a single take. Email the show via thingsfallapart@hotmail.co.uk, or visit and contribute on the facebook page

A review of Alexander Sokurov's 2002 film Russian Ark Theme music: Finn Talisker Music

Episode 12 and we delve into Middle Earth with Frodo and The Hermitage with... a... ghost? Story, visuals, acting... none will escape our critique! Mwa haha! Movie - 5 Film - 7 Tune in next week for: Ghostbusters vs The Celebration

Russian Ark is a cinematic masterpiece. Dozens of sets, thousands of actors, years of planning. It’s a perfectly executed work of art. Almost. In this episode, Jonathan sets off to find the one guy who ruined it for everyone. Credits Heavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein. This episode was also produced by Stevie Lane, Peter Bresnan, and Kalila Holt. Editing by Jorge Just, with additional editing by Alex Blumberg. Special thanks to Emily Condon, Sruthi Pinnamaneni, and Chris Neary. The show was mixed by Bobby Lord.  Music by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Blue Dot Sessions, Michael Hearst, Bobby Lord, Y La Bamba, Michael Charles Smith, Graham Barton, Hakan Eriksson, Katie Mullins, and Virginia Violet and the Rays. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records, and our ad music is by Haley Shaw.

Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe" Ken - "Intro" Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe" [Layers] Vangelis - "Tears in Rain" - Blade Runner s.t. Jerry Lewis - "You have to follow your instinct" - Interview by Dick Caviett Saint-Saens - "The Aquarium" Stone Roses - "It takes time for people to fall in love with you, but it's inevitable" - Made of Stone documentary Manhattans - "Shining Star" Taylor Kitsch - "Absolutely everything around me was false" - The Grand Seduction [Everybody was telling me lies] Jerry Lewis - "Can't improvise like you used to" - Interview by Dick Caviett [We live in too bright a society, and the economy is such that you can't even wing a show and look to find marvelous things like you used to do, for fear you might impair the show. You're just taking a chance. I love to improvise, but in the context of what I know is solid. I used to jump away from what I had planned and just go totally insane. And two out of maybe four of those would work. But you just can't do that today.] Shane Carruth - "Trade Days" - Primer s.t. Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Walk Directly Into Fear" - Show #507 from 8/8/16 Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Thank You For Making Noise" - Show #306, from 4/17/04 [Includes Nico] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The hello MS regurgitation loop" - Show #245, from 3/24/01 [Includes Microsoft Windows sound] Taylor Kitsch - "Why can't anyone just tell me the truth?" - The Grand Seduction Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "This Mess Is True" - Show #285, from 12/20/03 [Includes This Much Is True] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Other Shapes Are Possible" - Show #461 from 7/14/16 [Maybe includes Beach Boys loops, Alan Watts, Tupelo Honey looping, Ken on fish dances, THX 1138 on the new environment, and perhaps Waking on a Pretty Day, Mark Mothersbaugh's Canon from Royal Tenenbaums, Donald Sutherland from Little Murders, Bruce Dern from Silent Running] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Conduct the Symphony of Your Life" - Show #452 from 3/14/13 [Includes Moondog, Jeff Daniels from Chasing Sleep, Betsy Cohen on doing it yourself, later zombies rising from the dead PSA, something modern, Terms of Endearment Debra Winger, Lou Reed Street Hassle, Ken on this being the only way things can be] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Welling Up (like a crab you could walk backward)" - Show #485 from 11/13/2013 [Includes W.G. Snuffy Walden's My So-Called Life (versions from theme as well as an alternate from the pilot), something related to Sigur Ros] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Perhaps only briefly, then returned to Welling Up] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "I want to step across" - Show #470 from 9/4/2013 [Includes Kraftwerk, TV lecture from Michael Crichton movie about models (Looker), Neil Diamond, woman about TV/drug, Ken wanting to know fewer things, you're not here] W.G. Snuffy Walden - "My So-Called Life Theme" [Loops, of course] Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat" Vangelis - "Tears in Rain (I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...)" - Blade Runner s.t. [With Rutger Hauer] Russian Ark actors and musician - "Music and voices" - Russian Ark Bryan Adams - "Everything I Do I Do it For You" [Not even looped! Mutt Lange] Bryan Adams - "Summer of 69" [Loops] Joe Frank - "Night Ride" - Work in Progress [With Gavin Bryars - Sinking of the Titanic] Kate Bush - "Hounds Of Love (Alternative)" [Loops] Ken - "You can try to make sense. You can conform to your shape. You can repeat your stories." [You're unsure all the time, and it doesn't matter] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Conduct the Symphony of Your Life (this is your last chance. This is everywhere that you know. Everything that you are)" - Show #452 from 3/14/13 [Ken's thing on life] Lou Reed - "Street Hassle" - Street Hassle [Loops] Ken - "Nothing is true anymore" Lou Reed - "Street Hassle" - Street Hassle [Loops] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The hello MS regurgitation loop, by Brian Eno" - Show #245, from 3/24/01 Joe Frank - "Night Ride (the history of confessions)" - Work in Progress [With Gavin Bryars - Sinking of the Titanic] Lou Reed - "Street Hassle" - Street Hassle [Loops] Brian Eno - "Variation No. 2 on Canon in D Major" [Erik Satie variation. Layered] Live phone call - "Running water, mountains, 40 sunsets at once" Ken - "Identification" Brian Eno - "Variation No. 2 on Canon in D Major" Joe Frank - "Night Ride" - Work in Progress Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Walk Directly Into Fear" - Show #507 from 8/8/16 [With Lykke Li, Black Mirror ("when you suspect something, it's always better when it turns out to be true"), Jack Kornfield ("maybe I'm too old"), Beth Orton ("alive"), The Big Lebowski ("strong men also cry"), Albert Brooks from Lost in America, Meg Ryan from When Harry Met Sally ("you're going to have to figure out how to not express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them")] W.G. Snuffy Walden - "My So-Called Life Theme" [Loops] Liane Balaban - "You know nothing about people. They've all lied to you." - The Grand Seduction Gene Wilder - "I'm only interested in the preservation of life" - Young Frankenstein Taylor Kitsch - "What I can't comprehend is how I didn't realize..." - The Grand Seduction Chi-Lites - "Have you Seen Her?" [Loops] Taylor Kitsch - "Everybody was telling me lies" - The Grand Seduction Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Our Jill (Latter Day Sainthood)" - Show #353, 2/1/05 Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Pure Imagination (Inaugural)" - Show #350, 1/18/05 [Incl. 80's 8-bit video game music, Bright Eyes An Attempt to Tip the Scales looped and backwards] Pink Floyd - "My memory of it is just this room full of tapes running 'round" - Classic Albums: The Making of "The Dark Side of the Moon" (documentary) Richard O'Brien - "Super Heroes" - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack Mogwai - "Friend of the Night" Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" [Loops (fish in the sea...)] Charlie Kaufman - "Failure is a badge of honor, it means you risked failure" Gene Wilder - "It teaches us to accept our failures as well as our successes with quiet dignity and grace" - Young Frankenstein Young MC - "Bust A Move" [Loops!] Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe" Lara Flynn-Boyle - "She loves him (you have to know these things when they happen. It might have been her only chance.)" - Equinox [He sensed it. But she never did. (Dir. Alan Rudolph)] Sergei Yevtushenko - "Closing piano music" - Russian Ark Nickelback - "Gotta Be Somebody" [Loops. Robert John "Mutt" Lange] Young MC - "Bust A Move" [Speed shifted] Ken - "I love sleep" [With Sergei Yevtushenko from Russian Ark, Tori Amos, Primer music by Shane Carruth] Ken - "A great big chain of things I have made all coming together" Live stream feedback - "Live stream" Ernest Thomas - "You say I push this for record, right?" - What's Happening!! (Season 2, episode 16: Doobie or Not Doobie: Part 1) Velvet Cactus Soceity - "The Eclipse (It's a social gathering but no one can look into the sky)" Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever" [Loops] Richard O'Brien - "Super Heroes" - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack [Loops. Incl. epilogue by Doctor Scott] Ken - "Seven minutes wasn't as long as I thought it wasn't going to be (Coming up next)" Richard O'Brien - "Super Heroes (Epilogue)" - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack [(This is where the 2017 show climaxed)] Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever" [Loops in 2018] Ken - "In the future, we've used it all up, it's over. You can go away forever." [It's 2018] Set: Drahomira Song Orchestra - "Argentine" [(Not in archive)] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/80288

Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe" Ken - "Intro" Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe" [Layers] Vangelis - "Tears in Rain" - Blade Runner s.t. Jerry Lewis - "You have to follow your instinct" - Interview by Dick Caviett Saint-Saens - "The Aquarium" Stone Roses - "It takes time for people to fall in love with you, but it's inevitable" - Made of Stone documentary Manhattans - "Shining Star" Taylor Kitsch - "Absolutely everything around me was false" - The Grand Seduction [Everybody was telling me lies] Jerry Lewis - "Can't improvise like you used to" - Interview by Dick Caviett [We live in too bright a society, and the economy is such that you can't even wing a show and look to find marvelous things like you used to do, for fear you might impair the show. You're just taking a chance. I love to improvise, but in the context of what I know is solid. I used to jump away from what I had planned and just go totally insane. And two out of maybe four of those would work. But you just can't do that today.] Shane Carruth - "Trade Days" - Primer s.t. Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Walk Directly Into Fear" - Show #507 from 8/8/16 Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Thank You For Making Noise" - Show #306, from 4/17/04 [Includes Nico] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The hello MS regurgitation loop" - Show #245, from 3/24/01 [Includes Microsoft Windows sound] Taylor Kitsch - "Why can't anyone just tell me the truth?" - The Grand Seduction Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "This Mess Is True" - Show #285, from 12/20/03 [Includes This Much Is True] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Other Shapes Are Possible" - Show #461 from 7/14/16 [Maybe includes Beach Boys loops, Alan Watts, Tupelo Honey looping, Ken on fish dances, THX 1138 on the new environment, and perhaps Waking on a Pretty Day, Mark Mothersbaugh's Canon from Royal Tenenbaums, Donald Sutherland from Little Murders, Bruce Dern from Silent Running] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Conduct the Symphony of Your Life" - Show #452 from 3/14/13 [Includes Moondog, Jeff Daniels from Chasing Sleep, Betsy Cohen on doing it yourself, later zombies rising from the dead PSA, something modern, Terms of Endearment Debra Winger, Lou Reed Street Hassle, Ken on this being the only way things can be] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Welling Up (like a crab you could walk backward)" - Show #485 from 11/13/2013 [Includes W.G. Snuffy Walden's My So-Called Life (versions from theme as well as an alternate from the pilot), something related to Sigur Ros] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Perhaps only briefly, then returned to Welling Up] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "I want to step across" - Show #470 from 9/4/2013 [Includes Kraftwerk, TV lecture from Michael Crichton movie about models (Looker), Neil Diamond, woman about TV/drug, Ken wanting to know fewer things, you're not here] W.G. Snuffy Walden - "My So-Called Life Theme" [Loops, of course] Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat" Vangelis - "Tears in Rain (I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...)" - Blade Runner s.t. [With Rutger Hauer] Russian Ark actors and musician - "Music and voices" - Russian Ark Bryan Adams - "Everything I Do I Do it For You" [Not even looped! Mutt Lange] Bryan Adams - "Summer of 69" [Loops] Joe Frank - "Night Ride" - Work in Progress [With Gavin Bryars - Sinking of the Titanic] Kate Bush - "Hounds Of Love (Alternative)" [Loops] Ken - "You can try to make sense. You can conform to your shape. You can repeat your stories." [You're unsure all the time, and it doesn't matter] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Conduct the Symphony of Your Life (this is your last chance. This is everywhere that you know. Everything that you are)" - Show #452 from 3/14/13 [Ken's thing on life] Lou Reed - "Street Hassle" - Street Hassle [Loops] Ken - "Nothing is true anymore" Lou Reed - "Street Hassle" - Street Hassle [Loops] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The hello MS regurgitation loop, by Brian Eno" - Show #245, from 3/24/01 Joe Frank - "Night Ride (the history of confessions)" - Work in Progress [With Gavin Bryars - Sinking of the Titanic] Lou Reed - "Street Hassle" - Street Hassle [Loops] Brian Eno - "Variation No. 2 on Canon in D Major" [Erik Satie variation. Layered] Live phone call - "Running water, mountains, 40 sunsets at once" Ken - "Identification" Brian Eno - "Variation No. 2 on Canon in D Major" Joe Frank - "Night Ride" - Work in Progress Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Walk Directly Into Fear" - Show #507 from 8/8/16 [With Lykke Li, Black Mirror ("when you suspect something, it's always better when it turns out to be true"), Jack Kornfield ("maybe I'm too old"), Beth Orton ("alive"), The Big Lebowski ("strong men also cry"), Albert Brooks from Lost in America, Meg Ryan from When Harry Met Sally ("you're going to have to figure out how to not express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them")] W.G. Snuffy Walden - "My So-Called Life Theme" [Loops] Liane Balaban - "You know nothing about people. They've all lied to you." - The Grand Seduction Gene Wilder - "I'm only interested in the preservation of life" - Young Frankenstein Taylor Kitsch - "What I can't comprehend is how I didn't realize..." - The Grand Seduction Chi-Lites - "Have you Seen Her?" [Loops] Taylor Kitsch - "Everybody was telling me lies" - The Grand Seduction Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Our Jill (Latter Day Sainthood)" - Show #353, 2/1/05 Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Pure Imagination (Inaugural)" - Show #350, 1/18/05 [Incl. 80's 8-bit video game music, Bright Eyes An Attempt to Tip the Scales looped and backwards] Pink Floyd - "My memory of it is just this room full of tapes running 'round" - Classic Albums: The Making of "The Dark Side of the Moon" (documentary) Richard O'Brien - "Super Heroes" - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack Mogwai - "Friend of the Night" Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" [Loops (fish in the sea...)] Charlie Kaufman - "Failure is a badge of honor, it means you risked failure" Gene Wilder - "It teaches us to accept our failures as well as our successes with quiet dignity and grace" - Young Frankenstein Young MC - "Bust A Move" [Loops!] Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe" Lara Flynn-Boyle - "She loves him (you have to know these things when they happen. It might have been her only chance.)" - Equinox [He sensed it. But she never did. (Dir. Alan Rudolph)] Sergei Yevtushenko - "Closing piano music" - Russian Ark Nickelback - "Gotta Be Somebody" [Loops. Robert John "Mutt" Lange] Young MC - "Bust A Move" [Speed shifted] Ken - "I love sleep" [With Sergei Yevtushenko from Russian Ark, Tori Amos, Primer music by Shane Carruth] Ken - "A great big chain of things I have made all coming together" Live stream feedback - "Live stream" Ernest Thomas - "You say I push this for record, right?" - What's Happening!! (Season 2, episode 16: Doobie or Not Doobie: Part 1) Velvet Cactus Soceity - "The Eclipse (It's a social gathering but no one can look into the sky)" Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever" [Loops] Richard O'Brien - "Super Heroes" - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack [Loops. Incl. epilogue by Doctor Scott] Ken - "Seven minutes wasn't as long as I thought it wasn't going to be (Coming up next)" Richard O'Brien - "Super Heroes (Epilogue)" - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack [(This is where the 2017 show climaxed)] Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever" [Loops in 2018] Ken - "In the future, we've used it all up, it's over. You can go away forever." [It's 2018] Set: Drahomira Song Orchestra - "Argentine" [(Not in archive)] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/80288

Episode 2: Inspirations Youtube: https://goo.gl/tLmHHqPodcast: https://goo.gl/1DHR3fAlternative Link: http://featureinaday.podbean.com/ Twitter, FB@FeatureInADayItems discussed: Russian Ark, Victoria, Birdman, Everybody Loves Raymond, Being Sold, Woody Allen, The Revenant, Tarantino, Harry Reems

Tessa Skara (Pop Roulette) watches the single take Russian Ark in a single sitting!

Francofonia is the latest film by Russian director Alexander Sokurov, who is perhaps best known for his 2002 documentary Russian Ark, an ambitious and awe-inspiring one-take trip through St Peterburg’s Hermitage museum during the Russian Revolution. In Francofonia, Sokurov once more returns to the themes of art and war and museums, this time focussing on the Louvre during the Nazi occupation of France. As someone who doesn’t get on terribly well with documentaries, I found Francofonia rather intriguing as it played with the documentary form and fused narrative with truth and reconstruction, past with present. We see Napoleon wandering the halls of the museum, we see the German officer in charge of dealing with the Louvre meeting with the then head of the museum. Sokurov himself narrates the documentary and appears on screen as one of the film’s central figures, talking to the characters while also being depicted as trying to piece the film together and not knowing how because the nature of culture is too overwhelming. But the film itself is not a failure – the nature of culture is overwhelming, and this is intentionally presented in the daunting and elusive way that it is. The fragments of history are all woven together in a way that urges us to draw our own conclusions in the way that Sokurov tries to over the course of the film. While at times disappointingly Eurocentric in its analysis of culture and the significance of culture, Francofonia still provides plenty of food for thought. What is culture? How much is it worth and who needs it? Who has a right to it? Perhaps the most interesting facet for me was the parallel drawn between Germany capturing the Louvre during its invasion in WWII and Napoleon invading other countries during his reign and bringing back countless artefacts to be displayed in the Louvre. Plus there’s a lot of fascinating snippets about the museum’s formation and the particulars of what it went through during the Second World War. Complex and at times confusing – in a good way – Francofonia has a lot to offer, even if we have to do a bit of work to piece it all together. Francofonia opens October 6.Written by Ben Volchok.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Francofonia is the latest film by Russian director Alexander Sokurov, who is perhaps best known for his 2002 documentary Russian Ark, an ambitious and awe-inspiring one-take trip through St Peterburg’s Hermitage museum during the Russian Revolution. In Francofonia, Sokurov once more returns to the themes of art and war and museums, this time focussing on the Louvre during the Nazi occupation of France. As someone who doesn’t get on terribly well with documentaries, I found Francofonia rather intriguing as it played with the documentary form and fused narrative with truth and reconstruction, past with present. We see Napoleon wandering the halls of the museum, we see the German officer in charge of dealing with the Louvre meeting with the then head of the museum. Sokurov himself narrates the documentary and appears on screen as one of the film’s central figures, talking to the characters while also being depicted as trying to piece the film together and not knowing how because the nature of culture is too overwhelming. But the film itself is not a failure – the nature of culture is overwhelming, and this is intentionally presented in the daunting and elusive way that it is. The fragments of history are all woven together in a way that urges us to draw our own conclusions in the way that Sokurov tries to over the course of the film. While at times disappointingly Eurocentric in its analysis of culture and the significance of culture, Francofonia still provides plenty of food for thought. What is culture? How much is it worth and who needs it? Who has a right to it? Perhaps the most interesting facet for me was the parallel drawn between Germany capturing the Louvre during its invasion in WWII and Napoleon invading other countries during his reign and bringing back countless artefacts to be displayed in the Louvre. Plus there’s a lot of fascinating snippets about the museum’s formation and the particulars of what it went through during the Second World War. Complex and at times confusing – in a good way – Francofonia has a lot to offer, even if we have to do a bit of work to piece it all together. Francofonia opens October 6. Written by Ben Volchok.

Sometimes you just don't have enough dough to go to the museum, preferably the Russian art and history museum. And sometimes you don't have the transportation to get there, or the means to grab a hold of a book of Russian history (not that there isn't Wikipedia, but you want something that makes you feel *immersed* in the last 300 years of what Russia's gone through). However, if you have Netflix, or access to a DVD player, and you want to also soak in one of the only films in existence to pull off a feature-length tightrope walk of doing it ALL in one unbroken take, then RUSSIAN ARK is certainly a work of art to at least attempt if not watch once or many times over. To this point, Andrew goes so deep into this film he nearly becomes one of the paintings! Here he is discussing his Cinema Immersion Tank challenge with this Aleksander Sokurov film from 2002. wagesofcinema@gmail.com

Labyrinth of Lies, Chemsex and Russian Ark are reviewed. With Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Cerise Howard, Thomas Caldwell and Josh Nelson.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant. A complex, visionary masterpiece deserving of all the acclaim, or a pretty decent movie with a somewhat flat story bogged down in hype? Today our Revenant-enthusiasts are doing battle with our hosts who think it was just pretty good.Featuring: Garrett Holmes, Josh Porter, Matt Hughes, Patrick Porter, and Tyler Hanns.Spoilers: The Revenant, and the Michael Punke novel on which it was very loosely based. Babel, 21 Grams, Birdman, Multiplicity, Up, the Pixar short Lava, Water World, Apocalypse Now, Gremlins, The Exorcist, Russian Ark, Rope, Children of Men, Avatar, Pocahontas, Fern Gully, the Indiana Jones series, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Die Hard, Columbo, Romeo and Juliet, The Dark Knight Rises, Ex Machina, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, About Time, Frank, Tree of Life, Thin Red Line, The Master, Interstellar, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, I Am Legend, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Evil Dead, and the Weird Al song, “Smells Like Nirvana.”

One rad to rule them all… This week Kyle and Matthew have a wide-reaching conversation about the Lord of the Rings with their expert guests Clifford Broadway and Justin Sewell from TheOneRing.Net. Clifford has read all the books a zillion times over, while Justin got into it by watching the movies. They join forces to talk about the films from the first Hobbit movie to the modern-day remakes (with a detour to discuss Ralph Bakshi). They also discuss Professor J. R. R. Tolkien and his invention of languages, as well as The Silmarillion, and of course, the Beatles movie that never was. Watch Clifford and Justin on "TORn Tuesday" every Tuesday afternoon at 5pm PST on theonering.net or call them anytime at 1-530-6-4FRODO. You can also catch Clifford on ShopXSN.com. Weekly Rads: Jonathan Blow’s Witness, Games Magazine, The Jackie and Laurie Show podcast Raddendums: Leonard Nimoy's "Bilbo Baggins," The Frighteners, The Hobbit by Rankin/Bass (1977), Ralph Bakshi & J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, David Carradine, John Howe's preconceptual artwork, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, The Silmarillion, George R. R. Martin, Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Scandinavian death metal bands, the Air New Zealand safety video, What We Do in Shadows, Howard Shore, The Fellowship documentary, The Ring Squad on YouTube, Russian Ark, The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Vorgeplänkel Begrüssung Gründe für Verzögerung Fragezeichen im Kopf der Hörers Wie beim guten Schnitt augenommen wird und wie wir publishen Das Thema: Birdman Dirk war nicht geflasht Neues Genre? “Victoria” von Sebastian Schipper Hitchcock hat das auch schon gemacht “Russian Ark” … Continue reading → The post DGS 045 – Birdman appeared first on Der gute Schnitt - Podcast.

On this episode we spend a NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, three times! Just not with a comprehensive review of that Ben Stiller trilogy. Instead Patrick McGill of Role Play Craft joins us on a tour with two different films set in museums with RUSSIAN ARK and MUSEUM HOURS. But first a mini-review of the third and presumably final film in the series NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB.

This week, in celebration of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the great film archivist, curator and programmer Henri Langlois, Sean and Mike take a tour of some cinematic libraries and museums with Alain Resnais's 1956 short film Toute la mémoire du mode about the Bibliothèque nationale and Alexander Sokurov's 2002 Russian Ark about the Russian State Hermitage Museum. They'll also talk about Langlois, Orson Welles, Princesses, the Internet and more.

Music video steadicam operator and producer Ari Robbins (aka the Steadi Jew) joins the podcast to talk about the commitment to pain that is steadicam operation, that Coachella shot in the Arcade Fire "We Exist" video, and how everyone asks him about Russian Ark.

The boys file two by two into this week's pairing of Darren Aronofsky's "Noah", and the single take extravagana "Russian Ark" from 2002. More importantly, Ian reveals just how Jewish he is. 

Movie Meltdown - Episode 166 This week, we do in fact... talk about movies. And, at a coffee shop. That’s right The Caffeinated Movie Geeks mix things up a little this week, as we convene for our first caffeinated session at Green Room Coffee & Espresso Bar. There we meet our host Allen and continue with our usual level of movie geekery.   And while we figure out our individual orgin stories, we also mention... a traumatic head injury and a Hillary Duff concert, Alphaville, motorcycle gang movies, John Carter, Dwayne “Not the Rock” Johnson, hipsters laughing at you, Anonymous, Russian Ark, David Lynch public service announcements, Wrath of the Titans, Hugo, narrated by a ghost, meet the man who runs the Nicolas Cage costume, Mr. Popper's Penguins, heroin chic, Tom Hardy, Jules Verne spinning in his grave, Aubrey Plaza, Anna Karenina, Jonathan Rhys Meyers vs. Jonathan Rhys-Davies, Sterotype Estates, the future of Back to the Future 2, hipsters moving in... there goes the neighborhood, Gnomeo and Juliet 2, Christopher Lloyd IS Venom, SyFy Channel presents..., Fat Dylan, Roland Emmerich, missing Halloween and peppermint candies, Hillary Duff IS Hillary Swank, not a fan people, the little funny-looking guy in Deuce Bigalow and the heavy kid from SuperBad, Reanimator, Journey 3, just put a Manson cover in your trailer and... someone needs to finish their cookie. “It’s got CGI, you don’t need acting.”For more on Green Room Coffee & Espresso Bar, go to:  http://www.greenroomcoffee.com/

A 2nd episode in a week? We're too generous. As Paul moves house, Jon and Jennifer help sift through his DVD box, unearthing treasures from Swingers to Top Secret to Russian Ark to Chums with Ant & Dec. Desert Island Flicks is your Most Watched Film, and there's a chat about the first 18-rated films we saw.