In Soviet Russia, MosFilm posts YOU(tube)
May 6, 2011 2:11 AM Subscribe
"Legendary" Russian movie studio Mosfilm is posting some it's most famous films on its youtube channel. They will be posting 5 new legendary Soviet films per week. They expect to have 200 uploaded by end of year. Most have English subtitles.
For old school, there's Tarkovsky: Andrey Rublev Part I, Part 2
For something more light-hearted, try Ivan Vassilievich Changes Profession
Something later, say on the eve of Perestroika, more to your taste? ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR!!
Let NPR fill you in on more more of the story here
For old school, there's Tarkovsky: Andrey Rublev Part I, Part 2
For something more light-hearted, try Ivan Vassilievich Changes Profession
Something later, say on the eve of Perestroika, more to your taste? ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR!!
Let NPR fill you in on more more of the story here
Wha-wha-what? OMG this is such excellent news. I adore Ivan Vassilievich Changes Profession. If it wasn't two thirty in the morning in a house full of sleeping roommates, I'd be firing a few of these up right now - thank you so much for posting this!
posted by EatTheWeek at 2:25 AM on May 6, 2011
posted by EatTheWeek at 2:25 AM on May 6, 2011
Hello to my fellow protein crystallographers who did a double take when they saw this post..
posted by TheOtherGuy at 2:41 AM on May 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by TheOtherGuy at 2:41 AM on May 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
Speaking of the best of soviet comedies, check out The Diamond Arm (boy does that title sound better in Russian).
I grew up watching a lot of these on the Russian channels on Israeli cable, and they really did put up some masterpieces. The vast majority of the movies that are up there is really worth anyone's time.
Harald74: I was super disappointed to find out they haven't actually put up Kind-dza-dza! It's the one movie that has escaped me.
posted by anateus at 3:09 AM on May 6, 2011
I grew up watching a lot of these on the Russian channels on Israeli cable, and they really did put up some masterpieces. The vast majority of the movies that are up there is really worth anyone's time.
Harald74: I was super disappointed to find out they haven't actually put up Kind-dza-dza! It's the one movie that has escaped me.
posted by anateus at 3:09 AM on May 6, 2011
I can highly recommend Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (Wikipedia article). Brilliant comedy. I've watched it too many times, but every time I watch it again I find new and new things lo laugh at. It is literally stuffed with gags and references to soviet life of those times (which was certainly amusing at some points), and I consider it one of the pillars of Soviet film making.
posted by yes at 3:34 AM on May 6, 2011
posted by yes at 3:34 AM on May 6, 2011
Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession? Ooo, Mikhail Bulgakov!
/theater nerd
posted by kyrademon at 4:03 AM on May 6, 2011
/theater nerd
posted by kyrademon at 4:03 AM on May 6, 2011
anateus: I hope they get to it. Why this film evaded the censorship I don't know, but it's worth watching even now.
posted by Harald74 at 5:15 AM on May 6, 2011
posted by Harald74 at 5:15 AM on May 6, 2011
I'm going to start at the top of The LiveJournal Russian Top 100 as found on iCheckMovies.com, which I found in a MeFi comment the other day.
posted by Harald74 at 5:17 AM on May 6, 2011
posted by Harald74 at 5:17 AM on May 6, 2011
Bozhe moi, the 1972 Ruslan and Ludmila is on youtube. I'd given up hope of finding it and confirming whether it was really as weird as I remember.
posted by nonane at 5:49 AM on May 6, 2011
posted by nonane at 5:49 AM on May 6, 2011
Great news. It's always time for Tarkovsky.
posted by doctornemo at 6:04 AM on May 6, 2011
posted by doctornemo at 6:04 AM on May 6, 2011
Thanks very much for this. I've been wanting to watch some of these for ages.
posted by languagehat at 8:14 AM on May 6, 2011
posted by languagehat at 8:14 AM on May 6, 2011
What, how...why?!? Am I dreaming?
They've got Solaris, Ivan's Childhood, the Mirror...
And they aren't broken into 10 minute segments either. Someone pinch me.
posted by Wemmick at 8:19 AM on May 6, 2011
They've got Solaris, Ivan's Childhood, the Mirror...
And they aren't broken into 10 minute segments either. Someone pinch me.
posted by Wemmick at 8:19 AM on May 6, 2011
For some reason Andrei Rublev just doesn't feel right on YouTube.
posted by jettloe at 9:39 AM on May 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by jettloe at 9:39 AM on May 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
Oh jettloe, I weep. That was awful.
(Still, I have no shame, and hunt my Tarkovskian fix where I can find it)
posted by doctornemo at 12:23 PM on May 6, 2011
(Still, I have no shame, and hunt my Tarkovskian fix where I can find it)
posted by doctornemo at 12:23 PM on May 6, 2011
Okay, this is really excellent. Man, I have too many movies to watch and not enough time.
posted by mstokes650 at 2:22 PM on May 6, 2011
posted by mstokes650 at 2:22 PM on May 6, 2011
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