Russian Movies

[guzelle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the suggestions about Russian singers and songs, many of them were great!

Another question is about Russian movies. What Russian movies would you recommend for the Russian language student who loves good films?

He liked Ironia sud'by and Obyknovennoe chudo. He was able to understand about third of the dialogs in Russian and the rest with the help of English and Russian subtitles.

Thanks!

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[arashi-opera.livejournal.com]

Some nice Soviet comedies, particularly by Eldar Ryazanov and Leonid Gaidai: "Иван Васильевич меняет профессию" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0070233/), "Бриллиантовая рука" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0062759/), "На Дерибасовской хорошая погода" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0104962/) by Leonid Gaidai, "О бедном гусаре замолвите слово" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0081256/), "Служебный роман" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0076727/), esp. if you liked "Ирония судьбы", "Жестокий романс" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0090368/).

[wash-it-out.livejournal.com]

Now this I can contribute to! :) I took an awesome class in college called Russian film.

Here are some of the ones we watched, all of which I enjoyed:

The Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
Battleship Potemkin
The Cuckoo
The Cranes are Flying
Dark Eyes
East-West (it's actually a French movie, but it's about Stalinist Russia and it's amazing)
Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears
Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible
Andrei Rublev
Burnt by the Sun
Solaris
Oblomov
The Barber of Siberia

Even the ones that weren't really, really great were still informative and entertaining. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/arter_sr13_/]

Покровские ворота (http://imdb.com/title/tt0083465/)
Mark Zakharov (http://imdb.com/name/nm0952272/)'s movies.

[tlkh.livejournal.com]

Сказка странствий ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141830/ ) - quite dark medieval fairy tale & comedy, 1982
Кин-дза-дза ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091341/ ) - anti-utopia, sci-fi, comedy, a cult movie in Russia, 1986
Человек с бульвара Капуцинов (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092745/) - wild west comedy, 1987

[sherlock2040.livejournal.com]

I recently saw 'Mermaid' at the cinema but I don't know if it's out on DVD yet but it was an awesome film. The only other Russian films I've seen are 'Night Watch' and '9th Company', both of which are very good.

[cassandraclue.livejournal.com]

Вий--the first soviet horror film, based on a gogol story--might be interesting for him to watch.

i also like брат and груз 200, but according to wikipedia this director's films are often criticized by american film critics as being xenophobic/racist. the things you learn from wikipedia.

i was given a list by one of my friends of good russian movies for people who are really serious about film... i'll try to find it for you.

[voltaireontoast.livejournal.com]

I recommend both the ones we watched in our Russian class, The Return (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376968/), which is a really good modern Russian drama film and Russian Ark (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318034/), which is...interesting. I enjoyed it because I love Russian history and it was an original way of making a film (all done in one shot, first person perspective) and it's set in the Hermitage in St Petersburg and the whole film's in a very strange timewarp. I did enjoy it, though, if it is bizarre.

[gulidar.livejournal.com]

Kin-Dza-Dza is indeed a film to watch.

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

The series about Sherlock Holmes with Livanov as Holmes is totally great. You can find the titles here - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0515106/

[la-sincerite.livejournal.com]

"Вам и не снилось"
http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/71405/

[dp-maxime.livejournal.com]

Мимино (Mimino), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076391/
Джентельмены удачи (Gentlemeny udachy), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068519/ recommended as it's full of new russian proverbs (this film has introduced most of them).
Тот самый Мюнхаузен (Tot samyy Myunkhgauzen), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080037/

[from-somewhere.livejournal.com]

"Забытая мелодия для флейты"
"Стакан воды"
"Берегись автомобиля"

[smartkitty-86.livejournal.com]

Олигарх, if he likes mob movies. Even better, Брат & Брат 2.

[dekarmi.livejournal.com]

"Ostrov" ("Island") by Lungin is the best of recent Russian movies. Very strong.

[zverolov.livejournal.com]

"Формула радуги" - 1960's sci-fi robot comedy. Was banned in USSR because of satire about soviet bureaucracy.
"Приключения Электроника" - cult teenage movie, also about robot :)))

[ex-forest-l.livejournal.com]

There are the seven great Tarkovsky movies, but they are quite dark. They are the numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 here: http://imdb.com/name/nm0001789/#director (the others are TV or college works). I've seen 'Stalker' and never understood it, while 'Andrey Rublyov' and 'Ivan's childhood' are just superb. And I reckon they're good for learning Russian, because Tarkovsky's style is that the words are secondary to the picture, so there are fairly few of them, but they're well-chosen.

Of those that have already been mentioned - +1:
'Kin-Dza-Dza' ("Кин-Дза-Дза");
all the Gayday and Ryazanov films;
Dog's heart ("Собачье сердце");
The Autumn Maraphon ("Осенний марафон");
The White Sun of the Desert ("Белое солнце пустыни");
A Glass of Water ("Стакан воды").

[diello.livejournal.com]

I recently saw Дом дураков - House of Fools. I loved it (except I had that damn Bryan Adams song in my head for weeks afterwards.

[takaroyama.livejournal.com]

http://kermit73.livejournal.com/514713.html
Here's the list of 100 best Russian films.

[spiritrc.livejournal.com]

From the latest movies I would recommend watching "Двенадцать" by Никита Михалков and "Артистка" by Станислав Говорухин. I would also recommend "Остров" by Павел Лунгин. In my opinion those are the best (although very different in genre) films for the last like 10 years.