IF YOU ARE a CINE(or russo-)PHILE IN NYC! Marina Adamovich, editor of Novyi Zhurnal (New Review, oldest Russian language expat literary) and organizer of the Annual Russian Documentary Film festival at Tribeca Cinemas writes, re: the 7th entry, next weekend, OCT. 10-12. tribecacinemas/events/7th-annual-russian-documentary-film-festival/, rbth/culture_calendar/2014/08/18/the_seventh_annual_russian_documentary_film_festival_in_new_39101.html HERE IS THE FB EVENT PAGE: https://facebook/events/526110384199062/ I would like to bring you up to date on a unique event that will take place next weekend: the 7th Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York (October 10-12). The festival’s program consists of 20 documentaries which could be useful for your classes on Russian culture, history and literature. Please pay attention to these particular screenings: In the Beginning Was the Word, in honor of Russian literature and contemporary writers. This program consists of two documentaries, Russia’s Open Book in the Age of Putin (USA) and Writer ‘P’. The Attempt of Identification (Russia), and Q&A with the American film team and film directors. Writer ‘P’ is obviously Victor Pelevin. Moscow beau monde is not talking about his prose but about Pelevin himself - and reveals its own face. Very exciting! “Russia’s Open Book” (Peter Kaufman’s project) shows six of the most popular Russian writers of the last decade. Stephen Frye is reading their texts in English. This is a very intellectual and intriguing movie. Special program dedicated to Vasily Grossman, the author of “Life and Fate”. Russian director of the documentary I Knew That I Was Dead will participate in Q&A after the screening. Special program Remembering Holocaust in the Contemporary World. The focus is on the word remembering. The program is on how we do not remember the Holocaust. There are two screenings: a rather provocative Russian documentary The Holocaust – is it a Wallpaper Paste? and American documentary …with God against Man, devoted to a Portugal diplomat in Bordeaux who helped Jews to survive during the WWII. Q&A sessions with the Russian and American film teams will be held after the films. Russian Dream (my first choice!) is an ironical story about American illusions and fantasies, Russian men and Russian winter. The story is about sympathy and misunderstanding between people belonging to different cultures and countries. Mother, Children and Law tells a story about adoption of a paralyzed Russian girl by an American married couple. This little girl was among the last 64 Russian orphans adopted by foreign parents before the law named after Dima Yakovlev prohibited any US adoption from Russia. Film Blokada is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of The Siege of Leningrad. Twenty documentaries will have their American premieres. The festival will be held October 10-12 at Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street, Manhattan), DCTV (Downtown Community Television Centre - 87 Lafayette St., Manhattan), and Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn). All documentaries will be screened with English subtitles. For additional details please go to: rusdocfilmfest.org. Best, and have a wonderful next weekend, Marina Adamovitch The New Review
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