61. ArtForum: Plane Songs: Lauren Sedofsky Talks With Alexander Sokurov - Interview Full text of the article, Plane songs Lauren Sedofsky talks with alexander sokurov Interview from ArtForum, a publication in the field of Arts http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_3_40/ai_81258061

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62. Magellan's Log: Hearing Is Believing: The Russian Ark Example in hand alexander sokurov’s recent The Russian Ark. If The Russian Ark were a term paper, I’d give it A+ for concept, D for execution. http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog65/russianark.htm

Hearing Is Believing Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark Sawyer Brown The Russian Ark If The Russian Ark Though with an extremely limited release (there seem to be only a few, subtitled prints making the rounds of festivals, art houses, and museums), the movie has received a fair amount of critical attention because of the concept: the 96-minute film was done in one take Immediately on entering the museum, we encounter our real guide, an elderly, highly judgmental Frenchman (based on a historical figure who was sort of the de Tocqueville of Russia). It is he whom the camera follows as he meanders from room to room. He is as much interested in the art (the Hermitage has one of the great collections of European art, equal to that of the Louvre, or the Prado) as he is in the people he meets. All the while, the camera keeps moving, moving, moving. No one seems sure exactly how many actors were involved in the making of The Russian Ark The concept and its flawless, virtuosic execution are unique. The movie should be seen and studied for this, if for no other reason. Now come the "buts", the big "buts" to explain the "D" for execution, in order of increasing importance:

63. SPLICEDwire | "Father & Son" Review (2004) Alexander Sokurov, Andrey Schetinin, Father Son movie review, alexander sokurov, Andrey Schetinin, Director alexander sokurov scored a massive critical hit with his 2002 film Russian Ark http://www.splicedonline.com/04reviews/fatherson.html

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64. Boudisque Father And Son (Region 1) sokurov, alexander Fear Trembling R2 (Uk Import) - Corneau, Russian Ark, The R2 Nl (Dutch Subtitles) - sokurov, alexander http://www.boudisque.nl/tipsarchief.asp?tipsoortid=38

65. Cannes Film Festival Person alexander sokurov. alexander sokurov. Films Presented in Cannes. Films Presented in Cannes. 2003, OTETS Y SYN (FATHER AND SON), Director http://www.festival-cannes.fr/perso/index.php?langue=6002&personne=2007085

66. Cannes Film Festival directed by alexander sokurov RUSSIA FRANCE GERMANY Russia s Aleksandr sokurov returns to Cannes for the fourth time. After Moloch(Best Screenplay http://www.festival-cannes.fr/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4081438

67. WAC | Calendar | October 2002 | Cinema Of The Spirit: Alexander Sokurov CINEMA OF THE SPIRIT alexander sokurov OCTOBER 1831, 2002 Unless otherwise noted, screenings are $7 ($5 Walker members) and take place in the Auditorium. http://www.walkerart.org/archive/4/AD73716FD9492E7A616C.htm

Film/Video CINEMA OF THE SPIRIT: ALEXANDER SOKUROV OCTOBER 18-31, 2002 Unless otherwise noted, screenings are $7 ($5 Walker members) and take place in the Auditorium. Documentarian, impressionist, historian, and renowned Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov has been creating works since the 1970s that are at times elusive but always mesmerizing. For Sokurov, time is a strong presence he draws from the past with archival footage and uses duration as a form of elegiac mourning rooting his work both in old customs and modern forms. His films consider the impact of individuals and the experience of daily life in a way that has transcended political upheavals, economic marginality, international language barriers, and shifting social customs. His heralded "elegies," the focus of this program, are perhaps best described as poetic and visual essays containing cinematic splendor, hermetic intensity, and a sense of suspended time. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18

68. WAC | Calendar | October 2002 | Cinema Of The Spirit: Alexander Sokurov CINEMA OF THE SPIRIT alexander sokurov SIMPLE ELEGY EVENING SACRIFICE ELEGY THURSDAY OCTOBER 31, 2002, 8 PM FREE AUDITORIUM. OCTOBER 18 23 30 31 http://www.walkerart.org/archive/A/AF7371D374B46DB16178.htm

Film/Video CINEMA OF THE SPIRIT: ALEXANDER SOKUROV SIMPLE ELEGY EVENING SACRIFICE ELEGY THURSDAY OCTOBER 31, 2002, 8 PM FREE AUDITORIUM OCTOBER SIMPLE ELEGY In 1990, Russia placed an economic blockade on Lithuania. Sokurov takes us inside the Lithuanian president's office and a housing blockplaces that have been silenced by Russian political power. Shooting in spare, silent black and white, Sokurov aesthetically conveys the cultural climate. 1990, Russia, video (original format 35mm), silent, 20 minutes. with EVENING SACRIFICE A record of a May 1 Labor Day fireworks celebration, Sokurov's Evening Sacrifice is comprised of ecstatic looks at urban crowds and beautifully composed shots of individual faces. Recalling the classic work of Eisenstein and Vertov, this frenetically edited work relies on gesture and facial expressions rather than dialogue to narrate an event. 1984-1987, Russia, video (original format 35mm), silent, 20 minutes. and ELEGY Centering on the reburial of beloved opera singer Fiodor Shaliapin from a Parisian cemetery to the Moscow Novo-Devitchye

69. Alexander Sokurov ~ At Runboard.com A site devoted to the Spirituality, Philosophy and Highart Cinema. http://com1.runboard.com/bcinemaseekersforum.fmainchat.t41

CINEMASEEKERS FORUM This forum is meant to be an extension of the themes and concerns of our website. Please keep the focus on spirituality, philosophy and cinema. Thank you! The opinions expressed in this forum are the sole responsibility of the individual contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of the owners of this website (except in postings by the owners themselves under "cinemaseekers" or "questers".) CINEMASEEKERS.COM Main chat Alexander Sokurov Support ... runboard.com Register for a free global account ( learn about it locally lost password? globally ... Chris Kelvin Global user Registered: Posts: Karma: Reply Quote Alexander Sokurov Hi, I just visited and I discovered two films by Alexander Sokurov who recently got a release on DVD Region 0. "Spiritual Voices" and "Confession". Does anyone got any information about these films or where I can find it? Thanks. Last edited by Chris Kelvin, 4/16/2005, 8:38 am 4/16/2005, 8:36 am Send Email to Chris Kelvin Send PM to Chris Kelvin cinemaseekers Global user Registered: Posts: Karma: Reply Quote Re: Alexander Sokurov These are both American releases (a joint venture between a French company and Facets.org in Chicago. The best price can be found at www.deepdiscountdvd.com. We don't know if they ship to Europe, though. Otherwise, try www.amazon.com. We have seen both of these VERY LONG films. Thank goodness for the 60X speed on our DVD player! Some very nice scenes interspersed among A LOT of meandering footage. We just could not relate to anybody in these films (other than the director himself.) The one question we were left with at the end was "Where were the spiritual voices?" We loved Spiritual Voices - Part 1, but after that it was an effort. Also loved the short film, "A Soldier's Dream", which is actually extracted from the full-length film. There's a lot of male bonding (hint) in these films, which is taken to an uncomfortable extreme (at least for us) in "Confession". Still, all in all, fascinating stuff from one of the most talented directors of our time!

70. Alexander Sokurov, Cineasta http://www.zinema.com/textos/alexande.htm

ALEXANDER SOKUROV CINEASTA Alexander Sokurov es un cineasta ruso que dice que el cine no le gusta; afirmación sorprendente para quien define su propia vida en función de un abundante número de películas realizadas, más de treinta, desbordantes de preocupaciones morales, éticas y estéticas. Es un hecho que Sokurov prefiere no hablar mucho de cine y que ve poco cine; quizás será éste uno de sus secretos, y los secretos por definición no se revelan. En 1997, "Madre e hijo", una de las películas contemporáneas más secretos, octavo largometraje de ficción en su filmografía, le consagró como el más importante cineasta ruso de la actualidad. Es que, como el mismo afirma, las personas tenemos una idea extremadamente simple y breve de lo visible ; Sokurov dedica su esfuerzo a desvelar ese misterio. Entre 1978 y 1999, a pesar del ostracismo al que fue sometido por el régimen soviético desde su primera obra, -"La voz solitaria de los hombres"-, S. filmó aquello que le interesaba incluso utilizando imágenes de otros: gran número de imágenes de actualidad a las que superpuso comentarios en off y fragmentos musicales, como en "Y nada más" (1982), una cronología de los acontecimientos de la SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL bajo el lema de la expresión latina Tertium Num Datur Su fuente de inspiración se halla tanto en los pequeños detalles de la vida cotidiana, como en el esplendor de la naturaleza, y también en las artes (música, pintura, literatura); a propósito de su obra, podría hablarse de pictorialismo, de polifonía o elegía. Una experiencia visual. Un trabajo sobre el sonido. Un canto de melancólicos lamentos.

71. [ Nostalghia.com | The Topics :: Sokurov DVD Reviews ] alexander sokurov s Spiritual Voices and Confession are produced for DVD by Ideale Also visit the official website of alexander sokurov alexander http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/SokurovReview.html

DVD Review Alexander Sokurov's War Documentaries Alexander Sokurov's Spiritual Voices and Confession are produced for DVD by Ideale Audience , Paris and will be released on NTSC DVD by Facets Video in Region 1, on March 29, 2005. Also visit the official website of Alexander Sokurov Sokurov information site K nown until now mostly from shows at art museums, film festivals, and European TV channels, these two films by Alexander Sokurov are presented for the first time on DVD with English subtitles (removable). Both are 2xDVD sets. SPIRITUAL VOICES is a documentary following the daily lives of a brigade of Russian border guards along the Tadjik/Afghani border. Originally made for television with Betacam SP cameras, it transcends the format with its remarkable discipline and expansive (328 minutes) unblinking gaze. Long takes, minimal dialogue, and painterly cinematography. Watch the short sequence of helicopter ride, for example, and just try to find a similar scene in any CGI-saturated blockbuster. The soundtrack would probably deserve an analysis of its own as it's so meticulously and delicately crafted from the natural sounds, fragments of Richard Wagner's Siegfried

72. FATHER AND SON | Alexander Sokurov | R·U·S·C·I·C·O alexander sokurov s film Father and Son is the second part of the conceived trilogy about the drama of natural human relationships. Awards http://www.ruscico.com/eng/films/232

DVD CATALOGUE RUSCICO NEWS TV OTHER RIGHTS ... CONTACTS FATHER AND SON Add to Shopping Cart Your Shopping Cart Description: A small family - father and son - lives in a rooftop apartment of an old house. The father is a retired Air Force pilot. Long ago, when he was attending a school for air cadets, he met his first, and only, love - a girl who became his wife and bore him a son. His wife had died young. His son's physical features constantly remind the father of his wife, he doesn't separate his son from the love he hasn't overcome - that is his bond to his beloved. Thus, the father cannot imagine his life without his son, and the son deeply and loyally loves his father. Their love is almost of mythological nature and scale. It cannot happen in real life, it is the collision of a fairy tale: Alexander Sokurov's film 'Father and Son' is the second part of the conceived trilogy about the drama of natural human relationships. Awards: FIPRESCI Award at the 56th Cannes International Film Festival (2003). Special Event of the 14th Open Russian Film Festival 'Kinotavr' (2003) in Sochi. Participant in the competition program of the 11th 'Festival of Festivals' in St. Petersburg (2003) - Best Actor Award to the lead actors Andrei Shchetinin and Alexei Neymyshev.

73. CINETEXT Alexander Sokurov On the Blurring of Lines Some Thoughts About alexander sokurov. http://cinetext.philo.at/magazine/bornstein/sokurov.html

This text has been submitted as an original contribution to cinetext on September 12, 2002. It is also available as PDF-document On the Blurring of Lines: Some Thoughts About Alexander Sokurov by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein It has generally been agreed upon that Sokurov is to be considered as the "new Tarkovsky". There are certainly numerous reasons for this rapprochement , and one of the most pertinent ones is that Sokurov achieves, like Tarkovsky, the creation of dream within the art of cinema. However, though it is too early to speak about tendencies in Sokurov criticism - there simply is not enough of it yet - it is notable that, while Tarkovsky stimulated, also through his own writings, interpretations of his "dreams» through quasi-metaphysical concepts like "dream-time" or "dream-logic", Sokurov's work seems to inspire more aesthetic-perspectival intepretations evoking the existence of dreamlike "landscape paintings", perhaps happily summarized in the word "dreamscape". In Sokurov's films, the dreamlike ontological condition tends to be described as a "scape" linked to the metaphor of painting. Even natural sounds like wind or half-heard music (audible in Mother and Son ), are likely to be described as an atmospheric and painterly "soundscape". This presents a contrast with Tarkovsky whose films have never been much described as "landscapes" and even less as "paintings". Tarkovsky's dreamlike spaces appear more as mental "zones", more or less linked to human civilization, and their theoretical elaboration seems to work better through the use of "structures" and "logic" than through "paintings" or "scapes".

74. Kinoeye | Russia: Aleksandr Sokurov: Online & Print Resources Tony Pipolo, Spiritual Voices—alexander sokurov locates the uncanny along the Gregory and Maria Pearse, alexander sokurov His Cinema of Spiritual http://www.kinoeye.org/archive/director_sokurov.php

KINOEYE home about us contributing vacancies ... contact us E-MAIL UPDATES more info ARCHIVES search english title original title director ... add a link COUNTRY ARCHIVES country albania austria belgium bosnia bulgaria croatia czech rep denmark estonia finland france germany greece hungary iceland italy latvia lithuania macedonia netherlands norway poland portugal romania russia serbia slovakia slovenia spain sweden switzerland SEARCH The Kinoeye archive Sokurov Web resources on Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov Welcome to the Kinoeye archive. The ultimate aim of the archive is to provide a near-as-damn-it definitive index of intelligent and thoughtful English-language analysis of cinema from the new Europe on the web. This page is devoted web and print resources on the Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov (also written as Alexander Sokurov). Articles in Kinoeye Websites Reviews and articles ... Interviews Entries in bold are articles that have appeared in either Kinoeye or Central Europe Review We are always looking for more articles to add. Please contact us if you have any suggestions. Articles in Kinoeye The infinite journey Aleksandr Sokurov's Elegiia dorogi Elegy of a Voyage Rich rewards in simpler forms : Aleksandr Sokurov's Telets Taurus The Elusive Hitler : Aleksandr Sokurov's Molokh Moloch Staring into the soul : Aleksandr Sokurov's Povinnost' Confession Angels or UFOs?

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78. FIPRESCI - Festival Reports - Turin 2003 - A Russian Charon alexander sokurov retrospective A Russian Charon by Laszlo Kriston. A charon in ancient Greek mythology is a ferryman who guides an ark through the river of http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2003/turin_2003/turin_2003_lkriston.ht

the international federation of film critics about us festival reports awards criticism news contact ... Turin 2003 coming soon Montreal Venice Toronto San Sebastian ... Rio de Janeiro Turin 2003 Alexander Sokurov retrospective A Russian Charon by Laszlo Kriston We, the viewers, have as little knowledge about these mostly unseen narrators as they have minimal understanding of the circumstances (occasionally we see one of them but only from behind or looking down at his feet due to a camerawork based on a subjective view point). Identity and place are both irrelevant factors in these visionary mystical routes. Time-travel? An unedited, one-take movie, or a ’one-breath’ one, as Sokurov often reflects, provides a compendium of an epoch. It represents a spirit of the time (zeitgeist) in an organic way, as if such a thing would be an entity on its own – more than the sum of its parts (the gestures, the dialogue, the style, the locations, the characters, the paintings). This ever-moving camera itself is the ark ("It feels like we're floating," says a young women), an ark on which the Marquis de Custine (the only character who is aware of the narrator’s presence) sweeps through time and history – as at this side of the river ’Lethe’, in the world of eternity, one can visit every possible dimension of space and time.

79. Eye - Obscure Films Cast Light On History - 02.21.02 REQUIEM THE VISIONARY FILMS OF RUSSIAN MASTER alexander sokurov. To March 7. Cinematheque Ontario, AGO s Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas W. 968FILM. http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_02.21.02/film/sokurov.html

film CONTENTS Latest issue This issue BACK ISSUES Search ... ADVERTISING INFO eye - Obscure films cast light on history REQUIEM: THE VISIONARY FILMS OF RUSSIAN MASTER ALEXANDER SOKUROV To March 7. Cinematheque Ontario, AGO's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas W. 968-FILM. BY JASON ANDERSON Just over 10 years ago, British television broadcast the one and only episode of Heil Honey, I'm Home , a sitcom that depicted Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun as modern-day suburbanite slobs. Notorious even before it aired, the show drew widespread condemnation. Evidently, such portrayals of the Fuehrer, even as a buffoon, were not to be tolerated. But that failed attempt to make light of the last century's most infamous man has a distant cousin in Moloch , a 1999 film by Alexander Sokurov, whose little-seen works are now screening in a retrospective at Cinematheque Ontario. In his many features, documentaries and poem-like "elegy" films, the Russian filmmaker has often explored historical themes and tried to discern the place of the past in the present day. With Moloch ; March 1, 6:30pm), Sokurov did what no other filmmaker had done: portray Hitler as a person. As usual, Sokurov's achievement is a peculiar one. As his admirer Ingmar Bergman said of him last year, Sokurov "breaks all the rules on all levels," creating work that is "unexpectedly fascinating."

80. Like Anna Karina's Sweater: Berlinale Diary - The Sun (Solntse) alexander sokurov s The Sun (Solntse), the third film in his planned tetralogy about the downfall of powerful leaders/tyrants, details the life of Emperor http://filmbrain.typepad.com/filmbrain/2005/02/berlinale_diary_7.html

hostName = '.filmbrain.com'; Like Anna Karina's Sweater Main Berlinale Diary - The Sun (Solntse) Alexander Sokurov's The Sun (Solntse), the third film in his planned tetralogy about the downfall of powerful leaders/tyrants, details the life of Emperor Hirohito in the days following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including the events that led to his radio address in which he asked his nation to surrender, and gave up his divine status. Though a logical follow-up to Moloch (which was about Hitler) and Taurus (Lenin), Sokurov here creates a far more sympathetic view of the Emperor than he did of the other two subjects. (Curiously enough, the fourth film in the series is going to be an adaptation of Goethe's Faust.) The first thing one notices is the way in which Sokurov portrays Hirohito. Shown as a timid, simple character, he comes off more like a Japanese Chauncey Gardiner than a descendent of the sun goddess Amaterasu his insular, isolated life left him unprepared for something like this. Set in a modest laboratory building (the imperial palace damaged by bombings), the early part of the film details his daily rituals, and shows him as a man dedicated to both science and art he spends time in his marine biology lab studying a crab, and later is shown writing poetry while outside his nation lies in ruin. It's only when he meets with General MacArthur that we get a sense of the man's role in the war that has just ended. Though the leaders of several nations wanted the Emperor to be prosecuted by military tribunal, MacArthur, after meeting with Hirohito, recommended that he not be tried as a war criminal. His willingness to accept responsibility for the actions of the Japanese government, along with his declaration that he is not a god, but merely a man, saved countless lives of soldiers willing to fight until the bitter end. It is this decision that Sokurov seems to be fascinated with. In both

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