Mike Downey’s time as chairman of the European Film Academy comes to an end this weekend at its 38th European Film Awards in ...

Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat’s romantic comedy “No Good Men” has been set as Berlin Film Festival opener. The ...

Grigori Kromanov’s 1979 sci-fi film Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel will screen at Berlinale Classics, a rare honour for Estonian ...

The Russian filmmaker discusses his biopic on the Russian poet, the nature of dissidents, and the heightened poetics of his ...

The News-Gazette Film Series begins this year with Orson Welles’ 1941 masterpiece, “Citizen Kane.” This groundbreaking, ...

Also: Bang on a Can and St. Vincent in Richard Foreman’s “What to Wear,” the celestial folk of Cassandra Jenkins, Jennifer ...

Revolutionary and perfectly aged movies like The General and The Adventures of Prince Achmed are all celebrating their 100th ...

What exactly was the Space Race? Why did we care so much? The Space Race grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most powerful countries after World War II. For a ...

Singer Tatiana Daskovskaya, whose voice became recognizable to several generations of viewers thanks to Soviet cinema, passed away in November at the age of 80. This was announced on December 29 by ...

The Soviet government ordered the film, produced by Mosfilm, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1905 Potemkin uprising, which Lenin regarded as proof that sections of the armed forces could side ...

Soviet cinema has long been an integral part of New Year's holidays: these films are loved and watched on a festive night, New Year's holidays, or in the background while cooking olivier. Watching ...

People crowd together in the sun. All smiles and waves. Joyous. Pandemonium erupts. Panic hits like a shockwave as those assembled swivel and bolt, spilling down a seemingly infinite flight of steps.