Russian cinema

[joanna bujes]

At 01:50 PM 02/24/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Country which has an amazing film industry, though I
>have no idea who's funding it, is Russia. Some great
>films (seen by practically noone in the west) have
>come out of there in the last five years. How is this possible?

I grew up watching Russian movies (in Romania)...the WWII movies were 
amazing and a couple of years ago I went to see the film version of "Lady 
and the Dog." It's really hard to believe that anyone could make a good 
movie of a very beautiful but fragile Chekhov story, but the movie was 
outstanding.

In the last five years, I've only seen "Prisoner of the Mountains"...which 
was pretty good. What else do you recommend?

Joanna