Soviet Cinema

[joanna bujes]

At 11:28 AM 01/31/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>The Russian cinema was avant garde in 1920s (cf. Eisentsein or Vertov)
>when Hollywodd was a pile of dung (not that it is not now in a
>figurative sense) - but then of course much of it was destroyed by
>Stalin and his butchers.   Nonetheless, a few good things were made in
>1960s and 1970s cf. I'm Cuba, Shadows of the forgotten ancestors or
>Solaris - total anti-hollywood aesthetic and narrative.

Not to mention "Ballad of a Soldier," "The Cranes are Flying," "The Lady 
with the Dog" and, more recently, "Prisoner of the Mountains."

Joanna