Really though, after collapse of USSR there was almost no good movies made in Russia. And even recently they mostly shit made by "academic" directors wasting state money to project their insecurities and shit on people/history/said state. I myself don't watch them much
quite simple when you're opressed and there's no money in the industry the only people that will make movies are the ones that have something meaningful to deliver. I mean check hollywood. all rainbows and sunshines and movie franchises with no meaning at all is all that you get. the occasional art school degree director comes along and tries to do something passionate and it's better than the franchise shlock but still not as hard hitting as films made in unconvenient circumstances.
>after collapse of USSR there was almost no good movies made in Russia 1. The Return/Vozvrashchene 2. Durak 3. Mayor 4. Gruz 200 5. Leviathan 6. That last movie about a debt collector was quite good 7. Brat was a decent action flick 8. Dueliant is an interesting take on quasi-capeshit, plus it has great visuals 9. there was that Volverine-like quasi-capeshit Mechenosets/Swordbearer that was interesting visually (it was lacking in other aspects) 10. the first part of that Mikhalkov's sequel to Utomlonnyje solncem is interesting (I know that Russians don't like it, but I'm Polish) 11. Gadkiye lebedi is a decent sci-fi (even Obitaemyj ostrov would be decent if not the leading actor) 12. Metro is a very good disaster movie 13. Ostrov 14. Tsar is decent
This is what I can name from memory
Levi Gray
pretty gud
Caleb Perez
>Leviathan it was absolute shit
Jayden Brown
here's some recent movies I liked or heard good thing about them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_(2014_film) - another SoL drama. Same shitty movie as Leviathan, but a little better since it wasn't made by hipster liberal director and not projected USA-based story onto Russia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Men_Talk_About - road movie talk comedy. Really nice/funny since we don't have that sort of rabid feminism and still can talk about things. There's continuation with almost the same name.
Other movies: -there is one decent musical Stilyagi -9 rota, Afghan war kino (recently the director made a very mediocre sci-fi Prityazheniye and one mediocre movie about the battle of Stalingrad before that sci-fi)
Nah, it's quite inteteresting, I know that some Russians don't like movies like that because they supposedly overstress negative aspects of Russian society (from what I know there is even that term "chiornucha"), but objectively speaking it's a decent movie (not a masterpiece like Vozvrashchenie, tho). Generally speaking anything by Zviagintsiev is worth watching, especially Izgnaniye and Elena. I've heard that Nielubov is great, too.
Nicholas Collins
not really 3/5
this better but if u interested in stalingrad story u can check this out
Kayden Nelson
It's interesting visually, but the story is meh
Brody Clark
If you're into action movies, I highly recommend "Nepobedimiy" (Unbeatable). You can watch it with English subtitles on youtube. He's got a gimmick, where he has a case and he bolts bulletproof plates on it and then uses as a shield. Pretty fun Check first action scene starting at 7:00 in to get the idea. youtu.be/TobcJU2HRw0
There's also a TV series which is a prequel or a sequel to the movie, I'm not sure. It's called "Kremen" (Flint). First season is a full on Rambo in Russian woods. And I mean a full on Rambo in russian woods. Cop that harasses and tries to kick the hero out of the city. Still, some nice action again. Here's the 1st season on youtube. youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr6zRcxsVs2GTViDXXNxLzYtvPUgZx1bi
2nd season just let's go off the breaks and goes full Matrix+John Wick Check this at 31:00 minutes in youtu.be/r_nnuLl2kws
>burnt by the sun >night watch >day watch >leviathan
Nathaniel Watson
>>when you're opressed and there's no money in the industry What do you mean there was no money? All communist countries spent a shitload of money on financing culture, and they could make actual art, no one can get that kind of money in capitalism without sacrificing artistic integrity to the "free market" (i.e. selling out and making propaganda).
Those are all shit. Whining about muh Nazi body count, RC Cola versions of Western trash media, or muh underdevelopment. That seems to be all they can do.
Samuel Campbell
That’s the one. Fuck, that was awful.
Jonathan Gutierrez
youtube.com/watch?v=vTzlfO_zKsQ >No fart jokes >no nigga jokes >White male pilots >Femine heroine >No forced SJW shit >No funapocalpse How can Hollywood even compete?
Sokurov is a real filmmaker, but ultimately he'll always be in Tarkovsky's shadow. The Hungarian Tarr has done a better job of taking Tarkovsky's influence further, in a personal, distinctive, flexible way. Sokoruv, like the (far inferior) Bartas in Lithunania, seems to have a persona, rather than expressing his deepest personality.
Brody Lewis
USSR is an example, why the Creator needs censorship to fight with, as only with obstacles he can create true art and not shit.
Landon Smith
*Sokurov
Parker Reed
Dont talk shit about RC Cola
Henry Williams
kek
Austin Thompson
DUDE MEANDERING FILTH IS ART LMAO
Eli Lee
>yтoмлённыe coлнцeм.
Hardly even kino. And sequels are shit.
>Product Placement watch
Clipmaker shit.
>Leviathan
Literal shit. How moscow and pidorsburg (((intelligentsia))) views rest of Russia
Nathaniel Allen
>no Hyperborean spaceships historical revisionism at its worst
Jaxon Moore
too white, ugh
Anthony Sanchez
Taking an amazing book and making it a literal shitfest isn't good cinema at all. Too bad Strugatsky brothers seem to be unknown outside of former USSR
>What Men Talk about I'm not sure the jokes translate well - but yeah, those guys were peak 90s-00s comedy
I really enjoyed Brother, but it's an extremely time-relevant movie. I mean, if you don't know anything 90s in Russia, it would probably seem confusing Also Generation P, though, again, it's deeply rooted in everything 90s.
Dylan Murphy
>pidorsburg (((intelligentsia)))
kek this part is so true
Chase Jones
These all sound dreadful. You assume we want to know about Russian culture - we want pure cinema! Tarkovsky taught us something about the Russian soul by making pure cinema we had to see. This is all genre stuff that's been done before, or only of local interest.
John Morales
The two Brother movies were pretty fucking kino. Excellent time capsules of the miserable 90s Russia wrapped in amazing cinematography, acting and music all on really tight budget
Same. Took me an eternity to find, was too hype just cos the trailer they cut was very good, it's just OK apart from few scenes.
Adrian Nguyen
> not talking about the elephant in the room
Sup Forums will never know
Anthony Diaz
The first one is an absolute kino, even though I wish they finish it with the song from the starting scene The second had its moments but the plot was ridiculous > kill the staff of a bad american fat cat > kill random guy who was talking to him, could be anyone > get my friend money from the fat cat and go back to Russia > surely nothing will happen with my friend after I went to talk with his former boss murdering a few people
Christopher Edwards
Yeah, though I feel like they were setting up for a third movie where the protag's lack of foresight would bring his demise. Pretty sure the lead actor ripped not long after the 2nd movie came out, so guess we'll never know
Just google translated the director's old interview, and from what I could gather, I was actually wrong. The lead outgrew this role and didn't want to come back, whereas the director felt that the character's arc would be better if left as is, so they never actually had plans for a third movie. Hope I got it right
Gavin Kelly
Are you russian? There is no point in discussing russian cinema here.
I saw them both the first week they came out at my local arthouse theater.
John Baker
DURAK (2014) LONG AND HAPPY LIFE (2014) THE TERRITORY (2013)
Nathan Jones
This. I just fucking hate the sequel. And fuck everyone who quotes this stupid "power is in the truth"-shit. In th sequel the main guy guy is just a retarded moron.
Tyler Brooks
Scorsese talked about it in the commentary on DVD of SOY CUBA. Initially the movie was shown to the cubans but they thought it was too boring and slow, then in the USSR the commie critics thought it was too frivolous and mostly meaningless, style over substance. So the Mosfilm studio shelved it and subsequently Soy Cuba was rarely shown on the festivals and shit like that. Until Marty contacted them and bought the rights to restore and release it. youtube.com/watch?v=5ohAKqI0Fhc
Even now in Russia there's no such thing as indie cinema (aside from shorts here and there occasionally). And even if they manage to make something without the government or private studio support, it usually looks so poor, literally wooden sticks and paper.
Camden Gonzalez
mob/crime - 90% of it kek good ones? hmmm...
Logan Bennett
>Nepobedimiy Loved the movie. The russian chekist/jewish oligarch chemistry was qt.
Brandon Watson
>How can Hollywood even compete? Easily. Those russian movies are literally who on the international market, even if they were dubbed professionally and not just released with eng subs.
Anthony Moore
>no nigga jokes Because there's no PoC in Russia. It's very toxic there.
Not just any censorship. In the 60s through 70s and early 80 it was looser, just look at Nikita Mikhalkov's or his brother's (Andrey Konchalovsky) filmography. At that time the censors didn't just say "no" and that was that. The creators argued with them and stood their case and a lot of the times succeed.
So no censorship at all or any kind of censorship is not an universal answer. For example, the puritans in the censor committee were against oversexualization, so writer/director needed sound reason to keep female nudity or underage nudity in. Most of the time they'd just welcome you by saying "What's wrong with you, filthy degenerate?". Konchalovsky would just shrug and say "It's art".