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...RUSSIAN ARK. The latest film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov uses 2,000 actors and thirty-five rooms of The Hermitage museum to bring 300 years of Russian history to life. Even more astonishingly, the film is presented in one single 95 minute, continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous SteadiCam shot. Critical awe—from Roger Ebert to the Village Voice (in which it appeared on five of six critics’ top-ten lists for 2002) —has followed wherever it goes. Russian Ark screens...
...RUSSIAN ARK. Russian Ark screens...
That Big Fat Greek Wedding movie is still in almost 400 first-run theaters, having pulled in more than $240 million (on a $5 million budget), and is about to pass Raiders of the Lost Ark as the 26th biggest-grossing movie of all time. The DVD just came out. And on Monday at 9:30 p.m. E.T., My Big Fat Greek Life debuts as a CBS sitcom (which will thereafter run on Sundays at 8 p.m. E.T.). With the entire cast reunited except for John Corbett, who had already signed up to star in his own upcoming show...
Russian Ark’s relation to history is even more complicated than it seems, however. While intended as a celebration of Russian history—and perhaps, a means of mythologizing the “accident” of Communism—the Russian Ark is a slap-in-the-face to an icon of Russian film theory...
...making of history celebrating the beginning of a new historical and cinematic era, Russian Ark leaves little to be desired. It is a beautiful film, an artistic masterpiece and a philosophical can of worms...