Word: pavel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saxophonist strike up an uneasy friendship, with the cabby doggedly trying to reform the jazzman. TAXI BLUES doesn't sound like anything new, does it? The movie takes its story from Bertrand Tavernier's 1986 Round Midnight and its urgent, improvisatory spirit from a dozen John Cassavetes pictures. But Pavel Lounguine's drama is remarkable as the first (and perhaps last?) post-glasnost film from the Soviet Union. Lounguine proudly airs Russia's dirty laundry: the pervasive alcoholism, the anti-Semitism, the suspicion and self-destruction. Rock star Piotr Mamonov has a snaky charisma as the musician, and American tenor...
Father's memoirs started because of General Pavel Batov, with whom he had fought during much of the war. After Father was forced out, Batov was asked whether Khrushchev had been at Stalingrad. The general hesitated and answered vaguely that he didn't know whether Khrushchev had been at Stalingrad or what Khrushchev had been doing during the war, for that matter...
...that combination of energy and self-confidence for which he has become legendary. As his remarks were being translated, he made occasional asides to editor at large Strobe Talbott and Moscow bureau chief John Kohan, both fluent Russian speakers. "He is talking a long time," Gorbachev said of translator Pavel Palashenko at one point. "Did I really say that much?" When managing editor Henry Muller tried to slip in one last question, Gorbachev addressed him sternly as "Comrade Editor," then, with a laugh, changed it to "Mr. Editor." Says chief of correspondents John Stacks, who covered Washington for 20 years...
...shown as a tribute to glasnost. The jury, headed by director Bernardo Bertolucci, did bestow subsidiary awards to films whose politics complemented their aesthetics. Taxi Blues, a Soviet-French coproduction about the convulsive friendship of a Moscow cabdriver and a Jewish jazz saxophonist, won the director's prize for Pavel Lounguine. Krystyna Janda was named best actress for her role as a woman undergoing state torture in Ryszard Bugajski's The Interrogation, a harrowing babes-in-bondage film that the Poles had suppressed since 1982. The jury should also have honored Karel Kachyna's The Ear, made...