How did advanced Soviet films develop cinematography? We tell in the podcast "Caretaker" - Lifehacker
Podcasts / / January 07, 2021
We recall the first films about the flight into space, the incredible skill of the director Mikhail Kalatozov and the Soviet film, which was passed off as one in the USA.
Contemporary Russian cinema is often criticized and even openly criticized for lagging behind world trends. But it was not always so. At the dawn of cinematography and even in the 50s and 60s, innovative and cutting edge films were shot in the USSR, which were appreciated all over the world. Lifehacker's film critic Alexei Khromov talks about vivid examples of Soviet films that surprised even Western masters.
01:07 - why "Battleship Potemkin" "is called" the best film of all times and peoples "and what new has Sergey Eisenstein brought to the cinema.
04:17 - what surprised the Soviet science fiction. As in the movie "Space Voyage", the launch of a spacecraft was shown realistically 30 years before the actual flight.
07:00 - for which "The Cranes Are Flying" by Mikhail Kalatozov received the "Golden Palm" at the Cannes Film Festival.
9:53 - what is unique about the film "I am Cuba", the rights to which were bought Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
11:15 - why Pavel Klushantsev was called their teacher by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. What technologies did he come up with for his paintings?
13:45 - how Klushantsev's film "Planet of Storms" was turned into two different films in the USA.
15:07 - what amaze the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and why Lars von Trier and Quentin Tarantino admire his work.
What to see on the topic? We've compiled the movies that were mentioned in the podcast:
- The Strike, directed by Sergei Eisenstein, 1925.
- “Battleship Potemkin”, director - Sergei Eisenstein, 1925.
- "Aelita", director - Yakov Protazanov, 1925.
- "Space Flight", directed by Vasily Zhuravlev, 1936.
- "The Cranes Are Flying", director - Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957.
- "I am Cuba", director - Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964.
- "Planet of Storms", directed by Pavel Klushantsev, 1962.
- "Stalker", director - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979.
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