Tag: Ilya Stewart
Limonov: The Ballad | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Wild at Heart: Serebrennikov Oversimplifies Odyssey of Soviet Dissident
If one were to dilute a Molotov cocktail enough to make its destructive capabilities null and...
Billionaire Boys Club: Andrey Zvyagintsev Tackles Power & Corruption with “Jupiter”
He had a couple of projects in the works (English language project What Happens and a “psychological mood” of Russia’s society) and then had...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #26. Kirill Serebrennikov’s Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie
Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie
The critic elite in Cannes might not have been big (we were) on his Tchaikovsky's Wife, but Kirill Serebrennikov is...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #124. Yuriy Bykov’s The Owner
The Owner
A film title that we've been tracking, anticipating and have been in wrong for several years now and what we do know is...
Monster Dash: No Escaping Serebrennikov’s “The Disappearance” for August Diehl
A long-gestating project that was perhaps put on hold while Kirill Serebrennikov was fighting to not have to rot in a Russian jail, production...
Petrov’s Flu | Review
Delirium Tremens: Serebrennikov Maddens with Post-Soviet Magical Realism
Historically, Russian cinema (and literature) always tends to go for broke. Challenging narratives, endless characters, and opulent...
Tchaikovsky’s Wife | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Lady Beard: Serebrennikov Delivers Extravagant Recuperation of a Woman Undone
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the 19th century’s most prolific composers, whose music remains an...
2022 Cannes: Pietro Marcello’s L’envol (Scarlet) to Open the Directors’ Fortnight
A film that we wholeheartedly thought was going to be in the competition for the Palme, will instead be the highlight opening film for...
The World to Come | Review
Pitch Rider to Perdition: Fastvold Fans Flames of Forbidden Desire in Masterful Period Drama
Few and far between are cinematic narratives which attempt to, much...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #64. Yury Bykov’s The Owner
The Owner
Russian director Yury Bykov continues a prolific streak with sixth feature The Owner, a Russian-Swiss-UK co-pro with Ilya Stewart, Pavel Buria and Murad...
Sputnik | Review
This Time It’s Cold War: Abramenko Revamps a Xenomorph with Effective Potboiler
Just when you think a familiar formula might have run all its potential...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #99. Persian Lessons – Vadim Perelman
Persian Lessons
Director Vadim Perelman looks to have his most notable project in over a decade make the festival rounds in 2020 with Persian Lessons,...
