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Artavazd Peleshyan's space documentary to be screened in London
June 4, 2011 - 15:11 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The British Film Institute (BFI) is showing an
unprecedented retrospective of Russian and Soviet films featuring
classic and contemporary movies spanning more than a century of
cinema. Billed as ëiÉï (the half-Russian name given to the project is
pronounced Kino, meaning cinema in Russian), the six-month event is
big and bold, say the organizers, and brings the best of the past and
present to British screens, reported Russia Beyond The Headlines.
"Kino is huge and epic in its scope, and it covers the whole spectrum,
from classic icons of Russian heritage right the way through to
contemporary films," said the BFI's director, Amanda Nevill.
In a three-year project, the organizers of ëiÉï have collected,
restored and brought back to life not only the gems of Russian
cinematography but also the best original versions of the pictures,
from the classics of early silent movies to notable works from the age
of the auteur.
The flagship of the project is one of the all-time classics - Sergei
Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925), which has particular
resonance for its British fans: praised in Europe after its release,
it was banned in Britain until 1954.
The restored and digitalized version of the film has been released in
eight British cinemas and art centers and is accompanied by the music
Edmund Meisel played at its world premiere in Berlin in 1925.
The second part of the ëiÉï program, titled "Cosmos", is devoted to
the conquest of space by Soviet film-makers, and includes remarkable
film chronicles of man's first space flights, including the Armenian
director Artavazd Peleshyan's documentary Our Century , the stark and
challenging philosophical parables of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker and
Solaris , and Georgi Daneliya's satirical sci-fi film Kin-Dza-Dza.
June 4, 2011 - 15:11 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The British Film Institute (BFI) is showing an
unprecedented retrospective of Russian and Soviet films featuring
classic and contemporary movies spanning more than a century of
cinema. Billed as ëiÉï (the half-Russian name given to the project is
pronounced Kino, meaning cinema in Russian), the six-month event is
big and bold, say the organizers, and brings the best of the past and
present to British screens, reported Russia Beyond The Headlines.
"Kino is huge and epic in its scope, and it covers the whole spectrum,
from classic icons of Russian heritage right the way through to
contemporary films," said the BFI's director, Amanda Nevill.
In a three-year project, the organizers of ëiÉï have collected,
restored and brought back to life not only the gems of Russian
cinematography but also the best original versions of the pictures,
from the classics of early silent movies to notable works from the age
of the auteur.
The flagship of the project is one of the all-time classics - Sergei
Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925), which has particular
resonance for its British fans: praised in Europe after its release,
it was banned in Britain until 1954.
The restored and digitalized version of the film has been released in
eight British cinemas and art centers and is accompanied by the music
Edmund Meisel played at its world premiere in Berlin in 1925.
The second part of the ëiÉï program, titled "Cosmos", is devoted to
the conquest of space by Soviet film-makers, and includes remarkable
film chronicles of man's first space flights, including the Armenian
director Artavazd Peleshyan's documentary Our Century , the stark and
challenging philosophical parables of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker and
Solaris , and Georgi Daneliya's satirical sci-fi film Kin-Dza-Dza.