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...thousand actors. Thirty-five rooms of The Hermitage museum. One single 95-minute, continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous Steady-Cam shot. And a mad genius for a director, bent on making—and remaking—Russian history. Were it not so exquisitely beautiful, Russian Ark, the latest film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov, might pale in comparison to the epic story of its own production...
Having first premiered in May of last year, delivered as a gift for the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg, Russian Ark made its American debut in early February; critical awe—from Robert Ebert to the Village Voice (in which it appeared on five of six critics’ top-ten lists for 2002)—has followed wherever it goes. It makes its Cambridge debut on Friday at the Brattle Theatre...
...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...
Piles of internship applications loom atop my printer. To my right, Russian memoirs and the Bible await reading, while to my left the Styrofoam remnants of a take-home physics lab sit gloomily. But with R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People blasting from my stereo, I somehow know the varied elements of my life at Harvard will work themselves out—a quick listen to “Try Not to Breathe” and “Nightswimming,” and everything will be okay...
...focused mining company into a worldwide energy conglomerate. Cameco's goal is to become the ExxonMobil of uranium: a vertically integrated multinational involved in every stage of the fuel cycle, from extracting raw ore to fuel enrichment to delivering fuel rods. The company is a middleman in the U.S.-Russian program to import and reprocess uranium from decommissioned Soviet-era warheads, for use in reactors. With its 15% stake in the Bruce Power nuclear-power plant on Lake Huron in Ontario, the company is also an electricity generator. McArthur River lies at the heart of a nuclear empire that Cameco...