It is no news that early Soviet films are well-known, treasured and studied in the West. Not only many of those films commemorated pivotal figures and moments in Russian history (Ivan the Terrible, Al...
Of course, you know this famous Beatles song. At least, I hope you do. And today you can add your own verse (or a passage in prose) to it by going here. History Matters is a campaign to raise awarenes...
This year I’ve read at least two legendary film makers predicting the end of cinema: Peter Greenaway and David Lynch. They obviously don’t say that cinema is going to die altogether. Simpl...
This year’s Laureate in Literature is to be announced on Thursday October 12, at 11 am GMT (1 pm CET). You can watch the live internet broadcast here. And today I was woken up in the most unusua...
Many thanks to an IMDb.com user who’s posted the link to this article, printed in The Moscow Times in February this year. Unfinished Business is about the process of completion of the last film ...
I shall start reading Murakami as soon as I finish Umberto Eco’s new novel, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. It is a story of a man in his 60s (very much resembling the Master himself), who ...
From now on, if you’re lazy or too busy with work but still want to further your education, you can do so with the help of the ever mighty Google. The Berkeley University in California has start...
‘Voxpops are not representative – it’s just a few people who stopped to talk to you on a rainy Friday afternoon‘ (an old journalistic adage). It’s Thursday, but it’...
I love research. I adore it. There is nothing better than to look for something and to find it in the most unexpected place. For example, I’ve been following the fate of the late Sergei Bondarch...
I don’t know if I told you but I do love the mystery of a name. I have already explored it once, but of course the problem of strange names doesn’t befall the humans only. They also befall...