Russian Movies on YouTube: MosFilm

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An article in the Wall Street Journal today (May 10, 2011) reports about a partnership between MosFilm and YouTube:

An excerpt:

The array of movies viewers can explore includes not only masterworks by Tarkovsky, such as his complex, dreamlike meditation on memory, "The Mirror" (1974), but also comedies, live-action and animated fantasy films, musicals, melodramas and action and adventure films. Seagull Films has shown hundreds of Mosfilm titles, many in collaboration with New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center. "It looks like a sketch of all the programs we've done," Ms. Verlotsky said, citing a string of examples. They include Mr. Shakhnazarov's perestroika-era "Zero City" (1988), a surreal allegory laced with absurdism, which screened in a series on Russian fantastic cinema. "Nine Days of One Year" (1961), Mikhail Romm's ambivalent tribute to technological progress, appeared in a retrospective of Soviet films from the 1960s. And Vladimir Motyl's folktale-western mash-up "White Sun of the Desert" (1969), a favorite among cosmonauts, recently ran in a series on Soviet "Easterns."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703992704576307440339280056.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5

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I found something of interest while investigating the Russian movies now available on YouTube: somebody has put together Arvo Pärt's Mirror in the Mirror with parts of Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror.


http://www.youtube.com/v/dweiGyjxhHs