41. Film Comment Unloved in his native Russia, alexander sokurov nevertheless qualifies as his homeland s unofficial cinematic elegist. His formidable body of work over the http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/9-10-2002/asokurov.htm

FILM COMMENT HOME TABLE OF CONTENTS BUY THE NEW ISSUE! NEW: FATIH AKIN'S HEAD-ON AND DANIEL BURMAN'S LOST EMBRACE ... FILMLINC.COM HOME COMING IN March/April 2005: Dustin Hoffman Bulle Ogier by Gary Indiana Hirokazu Kore-eda by Chuck Stephens Amitabh Bachchan by David Chute Lucrecia Martel's The Holy Girl by Kent Jones And much more FILM COMMENT September/October 2002 WHISPERING IMAGES by TONY PIPOLO above: Russian Ark Unloved in his native Russia, Alexander Sokurov nevertheless qualifies as his homeland's unofficial cinematic elegist. His formidable body of work over the last 25 years - paralleling the decline and fall of the Soviet Empire and the slow, painful reconstruction of Russian life - is a prolonged act of mourning. In ten features and more than twice as many documentaries and avant-garde works, he has displayed an undiminished humanism and a unique aesthetic embracing both film and video. Though some of Sokurov's features have literary sources - Shaw, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky - they are hardly conventional narrative adaptions. And while many of his nonfiction works are direct responses to the social and political upheavals surrounding the dissolution of the Soviet Union, they frustrate the usual expectations one brings to documentary film. You can read the complete version of this article in the print edition of the Sept/Oct Film Comment.

42. Guardian Unlimited | Arts Critics | The Making Of Alexander Sokurov's Remarkable It took alexander sokurov two years to prepare his film tribute to St A scene from Russian Ark, alexander sokurov s tribute to the Hermitage Museum http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/critic/feature/0,1169,924071,00.html

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43. Pravda.RU Russian Filmmaker Takes On Japanese Emperor Russian filmmaker alexander sokurov, who has more than 50 feature films and documentaries to his credit, is rated by the European Film Academy as one of the http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2004/04/29/53689.html

Last update:08/22/2005 07:20 MSK Russia World Science and Culture Accidents ... About Pravda.RU:Science and Culture:More in detail Russian filmmaker takes on Japanese Emperor Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov, who has more than 50 feature films and documentaries to his credit, is rated by the European Film Academy as one of the world's best 100 directors. His new project The Sun, which is about Japan's Emperor Hirohito, is the final instalment of a trilogy dedicated to 20th century leaders. The first, his 1999 release Moloch concentrated on Hitler's personal life, while Taurus, which came out in 2000, focused on Lenin's last days. Critics have called all three pictures art for the select. "The trilogy is about hubris, which rules the world and pushes humanity into a dead-end," Yuri Arabov, who wrote the script for all three movies with Alexander Sokurov, said in a RIA Novosti interview. "The protagonists are lost souls who take it on themselves to save the world and influence the destinies of millions of people, but fail to share even a tiny bit of their warmth with their own close ones. At any rate, this is how the films' makers view them". Arabov explains that arrogance is not defeated in Moloch, even though Eva Braun warns Hitler that there is one force that cannot be conquered, i.e., death. "The Fuhrer here is depicted as an utterly amoral personality," he says. "Taurus shows how arrogance can be overcome through suffering from a disease and physical immobility, because disease forces a person to think about what he has done in life. But Lenin, although he at times wanted to, fails to overcome his arrogance. The Sun will probably depict a victory over hubris."

44. Alexander Sokurov - Exhibitions alexander sokurov * 1951 Russia Lives/works in St. Petersburg ›Tribute to alexander sokurov‹ alexander sokurov. CPh Film. Jun 06 Jul 26,2003 http://www.photography-now.com/artists/K12323.html

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45. Kamera.co.uk - Film Review - Taurus Directed By Alexander Sokurov - Reviewed By kamera.co.uk film review - Taurus directed by alexander sokurov. http://www.kamera.co.uk/reviews_extra/taurus.php

film review WHAT'S NEW FILM REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS FEATURES ... film reviews : Taurus Taurus Director: Alexander Sokurov Starring: Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova, Sergei Razhuk, Natalya Nikulenko Related Links Taurus IMDB Merchandise Links Films directed by Alexander Sokurov (PAL Video, Region 2 DVD) Related Books The second in Alexander Sokurov's teratology of films concerning twentieth century dictators, Taurus is a poetic and partially factual film of the last days of Russian revolutionary, Vladimir Ulyanov 'Lenin'. Holed up in the country and cared for by a determined doctor, his wife and a group of uniformed guardsmen, Lenin muses over his life with the ambiguity and vagueness of the old man that he is. With moments of extreme clarity and ramblings both poetic and pathetic, he unwittingly illuminates the state of contemporary Russia (and beyond?) and questions how man negotiates his place in the world. Such themes are consistent with Sokurov's other works, as is the strong visual rendering of the land. The white flowering fields where Lenin and his wife are placed for a picnic are particularly gorgeous. This and other whites (gowns and soft window lighting) provide impressionistic support to the murky greens that filter the entire picture. It's as if Lenin is a sunken ship filmed in the murky depths; his life, mind and political power slipping away. Thus whilst based on 'the facts', the film is ghostly and partially hypnotic. The story's historicism is played against a firm mysticism, exemplified by the film title and the fact Lenin was indeed, born a

46. Artfacts.Net: ALEXANDER SOKUROV international gallery guide for modern, contemporary and emerging art. http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/11933

Membership Newsletter About us Forum/Classifieds ... Galleries Deutsch English Italiano ALEXANDER SOKUROV Galería Elba Benítez , San Lorenzo 11, 28004 Madrid Spain Voces espirituales, 1995 Participating Artists: Alexander Sokurov Elba Benítez Gallery presents a selection of works by the Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (1951) as part of PhotoEspaña'03. The films included in the gallery program will be screened at a mini-cine specially designed for the occasion by the architect Eduardo Arroyo* Three particularly brilliant, poetic pieces will be shown: Elegy of a Voyage 2001, Dolce, 1999 and Confession, 1998. This program is complemented by two seasons organized by the Filmoteca Española:: "Homenaje a Alexander Sokurov" and "Cine y pintura"*. Heir to Tarkovski's cinematic legacy, Sokurov has written and directed 23 documentaries and 11 films. His work enjoys great acclaim worldwide and he has been awarded numerous prizes including, most recently, the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2003, for his latest film Father and Son. He is also one of the leading filmmakers on the contemporary art circuit. His film Mother and Son was selected by Catherine David for the Documenta X in 1997; the Jeu de Paume in Paris, organized an exhibition about his documentary film works in summer 2001 and some of films form part of the permanent collections of museums such as the MOMA in New York and the MACBA in Barcelona. Magazines specializing in contemporary art have paid particular attention to his work and to his creative personality.

47. Alexander Sokurov Filmography - Time Out Filmography of alexander sokurov as Director, Screenwriter, Production Designer, Actor, Cinematography. http://www.timeout.com/film/people/290863.html

People Alexander Sokurov Director, Screenwriter, Production Designer, Cast, Cinematography Roles Director: Father and Son Russian Ark Elegy of a Voyage Taurus ... A Painful Indifference Screenwriter: Russian Ark Russian Ark Elegy of a Voyage Moscow Elegy Production Designer: Russian Ark Cast: Russian Ark Cinematography: Taurus Latest film news Life Is Beautiful cinematographer dies Aug 19 Italian cinematographer, Tonino Delli Colli, passes away New York Film Fest line-up Aug 19 Full line-up for 43rd New York Film Festival annouced Edinburgh -Day Two Aug 19 Chris Tilly endures a day of carnage at the fest through screenings of 'Land of the dead' and 'Gunner Palace'. Competition Partners Time Out Magazine Time Out London Subscribers to Time Out London magazine get loads more: Packed with news, reviews and listings on everything from film to theatre, music to nightlife, the arts to comedy and much more. Everything you need to organise your life in London. Subscribe Film Guide Film Guide 2005 The annual Time Out Film Guide includes 15,000 films reviewed over the last 36 years by Time Out critics, covering every area of cinema: Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors, documentaries and avant garde, French, Far Eastern, classic silents and 1930s comedies. Buy this guide About the site Feedback Vacancies ... Advertising Time Out sites Group home Shop Travel London Classifieds Dating Film Restaurants This week Tickets Online Shop New York NY Eating NY Kids Chicago Abu Dhabi Athens Dubai Istanbul

48. The Sun Alexander Sokurov anniversaire surprise de Bruno / The Sun alexander sokurov Michka Verkhovskoy 07/02/2005. Précédente Accueil Suivante. The Sun alexander sokurov http://www.filmfestivals.com/images/berlin2005/pages/The Sun Alexander Sokurov.h

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49. Film Festival : Cannes 99 But alexander sokurov is not an ordinary Russian director. One meeting with alexander sokurov is all that s needed to feel that down deep he s a http://www.filmfestivals.com/cannes99/html/seloff9.htm

Moloch Alexander Sokurov A film about Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler directed by a Russian using Russian actors speaking dubbed German sounds rather implausible. But Alexander Sokurov is not an ordinary Russian director. Among his 30-plus credits as a director is a 10-minute montage-documentary titled Sonata For Hitler, made 20 years ago. On the making of Moloch he offered these comments: "These people, the people of power, turned their lives into theatre. Guided by a myth, they conceived and modified their lives, staged real mise en scène and subordinated their behaviour to rituals and ceremonies. This pattern is by no means unique, and Hitler was not exceptional. It's a common occurrance that grandiose shows driven by vanity end up in the dustbin of history." Of the three Russian stylists once named as "rightful heirs" to the art cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky - Ivan Dykhovichny, the late Alexander Kaidanovsky, and Alexander Sokurov - only Sokurov's cinema has survived the test of time. Always searching for new ways to employ the language of cinema, he probes the human experience through the eyes of a sceptic and pessimist. One meeting with Alexander Sokurov is all that's needed to feel that down deep he's a restless man, a film-maker who invites controversy by the very choice of his themes, an artist who will talk circles around the meaning of his films rather than offer any kind of direct answers that may come back later to haunt him.

50. WELLSPRING : Russian Ark : Interviews An Interview with alexander sokurov. I’m no theoretician, I’ma practical director. I have never had any desire to uncover anything new. http://www.wellspring.com/movies/text.html?page=interviews&movie_id=3

51. WELLSPRING : Father And Son : Cast_crew alexander sokurov’s unique style has been credited to the visual splendor, hermetic intensity and sense of suspended time found with in his films. http://www.wellspring.com/movies/text.html?movie_id=45&page=cast_crew&sidebar=31

52. MIFF 98: ALEXANDER SOKUROV sokurov’s key pictorial account of the work of Hubert Robert (17331808) a French sokurov is perhaps the most ambitious and original serious filmmaker http://www.midg.com.au/miff/site2/alexandr.html

MOTHER AND SON A enigmatic, soft and sad account of the last days of a mother weakened by disease. Her loving son tends to her as best he can with compassion so serene that nothing else needs to exist. "Mother and Son is one of the year's masterpieces." - Rotterdam Film Festival ORIENTAL ELEGY Through a mist a small group of houses resolve into a tiny fishing village perched on an island. Like a dream, gorgeous images displace one another and we come to perceive our whereabouts. When a ship is wrecked one night during a fierce storm, the local fishermen head out the next morning in search for corpses which they respectfully lay out and cover on the beach. A painfully beautiful visual poem, Oriental Elegy is exceptional. WHISPERING PAGES "The shape of a dark world comes into view in slow pans which are only interrupted by cuts to a new location. We see the facades of dockland buildings, the catacomb-like arches of a sewerage system and coffin-like rooms of apartments on a large housing estate. The film’s slow, meditative pace concentrates not on action but on the ‘whispering pages’ of the visible; its purpose is to make the viewer reflect sensitively on the eternal subject of crime and punishment."–Hans-Joachim Schiegel

53. MIFF : Mousetrap / Alexander Sokurov / East Of Broadway Mousetrap is supported by Cinemedia. ALEXANDR sokurov filmfestival98 selectedhighlights. Mousetrap. East of Broadway. alexander sokurov. http://www.midg.com.au/miff/site1/page15.html

Melbourne International Film Festival present : MOUSETRAP Moustrap is a specially curated programme of screenings, interactives, guests and forums which explore the impact of new technology on screen culture. The interactive exhibition will present a cross-section of the type of work that is flourishing internationally, ranging from lush feature-length productions like Ceremony of Innocence to smaller scale solo pieces like Maeda's Reactive Square and funky Japanese works such as First PC. Moustrap screenings will incorporate the most exciting and original new works selected from overseas digital festivals as well as local productions from emerging Australian talent. Amongst guest speakers will be US digital image pioneer Jim Ludtke, the mind behind the striking and surreal Residents CD-ROMs Freakshow, Gingerbread Man and Bad Day on the Midway, and Adam Gravois, director of the groundbreaking computer animation Golden Shoes. Mousetrap is supported by Cinemedia ALEXANDR SOKUROV Aleksandr Sokhurov's films are a rarity.

54. Guardian Unlimited Arts Friday Review The Making Of Alexander A scene from Russian Ark, alexander sokurov s tribute to the Hermitage Museum In the history of Russian cinema, alexander sokurov s decision to make a http://www.artsjournal.com/media/redir/20030327-19306.html

55. Frameworks Archive January - April 2003: Re: Alexander Sokurov Next message Jim Lane Re alexander sokurov ; Previous message Subject Re alexander sokurov Date Wed, 19 Feb 2003 144805 0600 http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw22/0557.html

Re: Alexander Sokurov From: Jon Jost ( clarandjon@MSN.COM Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 14:02:22 PST Next message: Jim Lane: "Re: Alexander Sokurov" Previous message: nicky.hamlyn@btopenworld.com: "Re: Long travelling shots (was Halsted Street (1933))" Maybe in reply to: Alexander Soifer: "Alexander Sokurov" Next in thread: Eric Hoyt: "experimental nature films" Reply: Eric Hoyt: "experimental nature films" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] ... [ attachment ] Not really wanting to renew squabbles with my now near neighbor - i.e., I live in Chicago now - I note that yes, Sokurov twaddled on about European culture in his erstwhile conversation with the unbearable alleged "french diplomat" whom the camera chased after. Unfortunately nearly each lacunae which presumably opened up to some "acting" and exchange of "content" was dreadful, and instead Sokurov filled up the intellectual vacuum with his voice over pontifications. I found them far less that intellectually interesting, but rather exposing his pompous vanity. Russian Ark though

56. Frameworks Archive January - April 2003: Re: Alexander Sokurov Re alexander sokurov. From Jim Lane (Jimmyl3@AOL.COM) Next message Fred Camper Re alexander sokurov ; Previous message Jim Lane Re alexander http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw22/0554.html

Re: Alexander Sokurov From: Jim Lane ( Jimmyl3@AOL.COM Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 10:53:40 PST Next message: Fred Camper: "Re: Alexander Sokurov" Previous message: Jim Lane: "Re: Alexander Sokurov" Maybe in reply to: Alexander Soifer: "Alexander Sokurov" Next in thread: Matt Teichman: "Re: Alexander Sokurov" Reply: Matt Teichman: "Re: Alexander Sokurov" Reply: w martin: "Re: jancso" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] ... [ attachment ] In a message dated 2/18/03 8:42:08 PM, mft4@CORNELL.EDU writes: Had the opportunity to work with him when I was a film programmer. He's a wonderful man in person. He has caught a lot of criticism for his "formalism" and use of the female body...not unlike Greenaway in some respects. Jansco's later stuff using video monitors in the frame is something else. Jim Lane LA PipChod@aol.com Next message: Fred Camper: "Re: Alexander Sokurov" Previous message: Jim Lane: "Re: Alexander Sokurov" Maybe in reply to: Alexander Soifer: "Alexander Sokurov" Next in thread: Matt Teichman: "Re: Alexander Sokurov" Reply: Matt Teichman: "Re: Alexander Sokurov" Reply: w martin: "Re: jancso" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] ... [ attachment ] This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7

57. ArtMargins The Russian Ark. Directed by alexander sokurov. Starring Sergey Dreiden, Maria alexander sokurov s Russian Ark is precisely such a unique film that sets http://www.artmargins.com/content/cineview/kujundzic.html

After "After": The Arkive Fever of Alexander Sokurov Dragan Kujundzic (Irvine) Dragan Kujundzic is currently working on the book manuscript titled "After" on the issues of Slavic "Post" Modernity. He is the author of Critical Exercises (Novi Sad: Matica srpska, 1983), The Returns of History: Russian Nietzscheans After Modernity (New York: SUNY Press, 1997), and soon to appear The Tongue in Heat [Vospalyonnyi iazyk] (Moscow: Ad marginem, Summer 2003). He has edited volumes on Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bakhtin, The Other Europe and the Translation of National Identity , and an issue of Tympanum dedicated to Jacques Derrida, which can be found at http://www.usc.edu/tympanum/4/ The Russian Ark . Directed by Alexander Sokurov. Starring Sergey Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy. Written by Anatoly Nikiforov, Alexander Sokurov. Cinematography by Tilman Buettner. Music by the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra. Film: 2002, 99 min., 35 mm, color, Dolby Digital Video: 2002, 95 min., HD, 16:9, Dolby Surround. The State Hermitage Museum, Hermitage Bridge Studio, Egoli Tossell Film AG production, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Fora-Film M, Celluloid Dreams. English Sub-titles. Special pre-screenings: Lincoln Plaza Cinema, New York City, December-January, 2002-3. Nuart Theater, Los Angeles, January 2003. Peu de gens devineront combien il a fallu etre triste pour ressusciter Carthage.

58. ArtMargins Roundtable on alexander sokurov s film Russian Ark. The echo on our publication of Dragan Kujundzic s essay on alexander sokurov s film Russian Ark (Russkij http://www.artmargins.com/content/cineview/roundtable.html

Roundtable on Alexander Sokurov's film Russian Ark The echo on our publication of Dragan Kujundzic's essay on Alexander Sokurov's film Russian Ark Russkij kovcheg ) has been very lively. It is followed this week by another text or echo on the film by Raoul Eshelman In addition, we have asked well-known critics and film historians for their responses to Sokurov's film. These responses will be published over the next few weeks. Please find the first of them below. The questions we asked of all discussion participants were the following: "What will the moving image of St. Petersburg look like in the 21st century?" and "What comes after analogous cinematography and how does the digital turn change film and post-film movies?" Sokurovs much debated film Russian Ark is a film of many paradoxes. Its premiers travel from West to East in America, Europe, and Russia, and contrary to the histories of Russia it (re)presents, has led to many confusions and irritations. Picture theory as "sculpted" through the history of pictures, bodily perceptions and intercultural questions seem to be an entry-point for understanding and analyzing the film. A tangible simultaneousness of historical epochs, visual techniques and thoughts about preserving a national film-culture (in the context of the "global" or European threat) comprise some of the complexity of the film. Still, these issues are not always satisfying. Some are bored and/or irritated by the setting of the film. These viewers often focus on whether Sokurov has betrayed his ideals by advertising the Hermitage and actual restorative tendencies. They also question his support of Putin-or at least the repetition of the cliché of degeneration since the beginning of 20th century history.

59. Cinema.com Interview With alexander sokurov. I m no theoretician, I ma practical director. I have never had any desire to uncover anything new. This idea of the long, http://www.cinema.com/article/item.phtml?ID=2014

60. CINEUROPA alexander sokurov Seamless Art. Russian Ark, a marvellous onetake film that was ruined by the projectionist alexander sokurov is not a happy man today. http://www.cineuropa.org/interview_sp.asp?lang=ing&treeID=57&documentID=331

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