mizoguchi's "Russian/Soviet films i've been meaning to see (but shamefully neglected)"

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In honour of MestnyiGeroi’s mammoth list of 1000+ Quintessential Russian Films, the War and Peace of individual list-making

  2. 2.
    Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka)(1925)
    by Vsevolod Pudovkin & Nikolai Shpikovsky
  5. 5.
    Bed and Sofa (Tretya meshchanskaya)(1927)
    by Abram Room
  7. 7.
    Zvenigora
    by Aleksander Dovzhenko
  8. 8.
    The Sixth Part of the World (Shestaya chast mira) (1926)
    by Dziga Vertov
  9. 9.
    The House on Trubnaya (Dom na Trubnoi)(1928)
    by Boris Barnet
  10. 10.
    The General Line (Old and New) (Staroye i novoye) (1929)
    by Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
  11. 11.
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    Enthusiasm (Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa) (1931)
    by Dziga Vertov
  12. 12.
    Ivan (Dovzhenko, 1932)

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  15. 15.
    ?
    By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
    by Boris Barnet
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  17. 17.
    Don Quixote
    by Grigori Kozintsev
  19. 19.
    Lady with the Dog / Dama s sobachkoj
    by Iosif Heifits
  20. 20.
    ?
    The Enchanted Desna (Zacharovannaya desna) (1964)
    by Yuliya Solntseva
  21. 21.
    July Rain (1967)
    by Marlen Khutsiev
  22. 22.
    ?
  23. 23.
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    Asya's Happiness

  24. 24.
    Brief Encounters (Korotkie vstrechi) (1967)
    by Kira Muratova
  25. 25.
    The Beginning [Nachalo] (1970)
    by Gleb Panfilov
  26. 26.
    ?
    Long Farewells (Muratova)

  30. 30.
    Siberiade (Complete and Uncut Version)
    by Andrey Konchalovskiy
  31. 31.
    ?
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    ?
  35. 35.
    ?
    The Days of Eclipse/Dni Zatmeniya
    by Aleksandr Sokurov
  36. 36.
    Little Vera
    by Vasili Pichul
  37. 37.
    ?
    The Shock (Ishmukamedov)

  39. 39.
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    Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)
    by Aleksei German
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Created by mizoguchi on Jul 01, 2008.
 

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MestnyiGeroi

Untitled — 3 years ago

And what in the world is The Motherland of Electricity? I’ve never heard of it. Imdb doesn’t list it as a Shepitko film, and a quick Google search reveals only that it is one of the favorite films of the Brothers Quay. Any idea of the original title??

Jul 01, 02:25PM | 4 comments | Reply to this

MestnyiGeroi

Untitled — 3 years ago

And thanks for mentioning Descendant of the Snow Leopard, which I hadn’t included on the big list (now added).

Jul 01, 02:19PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

MestnyiGeroi

Untitled — 3 years ago

Thanks for the mention!

From that list I’d most highly recommend Chapayev, which to my mind is sort of the uber-Soviet film, and The Irony of Fate, a movie that gives light romantic comedies a good name. The Lady with the Lapdog is exceptional, but Zvenigora is totally abstruse (then again, as you’re a fan of Sayat Nova …). I’d also recommend Walking the Streets of Moscow and Carnival Night heartily.

My Friend Ivan Lapshin is one I’ve been trying to see for years (and just missed during a recent Russian films revival at Lincoln Center). And there are quite a few on your list that, shamefully, have still eluded me. But that’s why I made that big list: not to show off what I have seen, but to lay out what I want to see.

Jul 01, 02:02PM | 3 comments | Reply to this



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