A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Reviews of films from Russia and from the Soviet period (1917 – 1991) including all films made during that time in countries that are now independent.
Julian Assange, “The World Tomorrow (Episode 8: Cypherpunks – Part 1)” (Russia Today, 5 June 2012) Yes, you read that right and it’s not a typo:…
Julian Assange, “The World Tomorrow (Episode 7: Occupy Movement)” (Russia Today, 29 May 2012) Unfortunately the transcript of this episode is unavailable so this review is…
Julian Assange, “The World Tomorrow (Episode 6: Rafael Correa)” (Russia Today, 22 May 2012) Halfway through the series, Assange must have read my mind telepathically as…
Julian Assange, “The World Tomorrow (Episode 5: Moazzam Begg, Asim Qureshi)” (Russia Today, 15 May 2012) At last Julian Assange gets a real cosy conversation with both…
Julian Assange, “The World Tomorrow (Episode 4: Nabeel Rajab, Alaa Abdal-Fattah)” (Russia Today, 8 May 2012) In this episode, Assange interviews two human rights activist revolutionaries,…
“The World Tomorrow (Episode 3: Moncef Marzouki)” (Russia Today, 1 May 2012) In this episode, Julian Assange interviews Moncef Marzouki, the President of Tunisia and a…
“The World Tomorrow (Episode 2: David Horowitz and Slavoj Zizek)” (Russia Today, 24 April 2012) For this episode, interviewer Julian Assange brought together two opposed public intellectuals,…
“The World Tomorrow (Episode 1: Hassan Nasrallah)” (Russia Today, 18 April 2012) First in a series of 12 interviews conducted by Wikileaks dissident Julian Assange and…
Ivan Maximov, “Provincial School” (1992) Amusing little animated short, running at under five minutes, about a most unusual country school where the kids resemble foetuses of…
Alexander Petrov, “Rusalka” (1996) Often referred to as “The Mermaid” in English, though mermaids and Russian rusalki are quite different creatures, this is a very beautiful…