God knows, I want to jump, like Liza, on one of my favourite authors… and if I were in Chita’s place, I’d love to be welcomed like that!...
Your response to the Valentine’s Day article featuring Shakespeare’s sonnet no. 22 in different languages prompted me to research the subject better… and, thankfully, I didn’t ...
El Poema de las Danzas, or The Poem about the Dance, is the title under which the famous Carmen Suite Ballet was transferred onto the screen in Russia. Here is the story of how the ballet had actually...
I don’t remember if I mentioned before that figure skating used for years to be my favourite sport, along with a few winter sports. Because the British are better during summer, in the last seve...
As the Oscars are imminent, I do hope that King’s Speech continues being the favourite at the ceremony. In the meantime, below is a famous extract from Vittorio de Sica’s 1963 tour-de-forc...
The passage from The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov that you are about to see in the video (in Russian, the English translation is below), has long been known by heart. When I was 16, I loved the ...
I‘ve just read the synopsis of The Diamond Arm (Brilliantovaya Ruka), a 1968 film by Leonid Gaidai, and it crossed my mind that it can be viewed as a comic improvisation on the theme of Hitchcoc...
I have translated this song previously into Russian, now it’s the turn for English rendition. I like this particular, romantic and tender, version. Once again, Polnareff gently attacks the socie...
I have noticed over the years that, unless someone who lives abroad is a serious Cinema student, Russian (and Soviet, especially) films are largely unknown in the West. Films by Andrei Tarkovsky will ...