Archive for 'Russian' Category

Day Watch by Timur Bekmambetov (2006)

4 August 2008

I enjoyed this sequel to Night Watch just as much as I enjoyed the first film, though I have no idea what the 3rd film will be about, since this film seems to end the storyline created in the first film. Another very enjoyable and amazingly visual film. Bekmambetov did a great job here creating [...]

Night Watch by Timur Bemambetov (2004)

3 August 2008

I had wanted to see this a long time ago, but after seeing WANTED I decided i wanted to see Night Watch and it’s sequel, and I was not disappointed, in fact I think I enjoyed these films more than I enjoyed WANTED, and am hoping that his US debut does not curtail plans to [...]

Mongol by Sergei Bodrov (1997)

14 June 2008

I have been dying to see this film since it came out last year, and was up for the Academy Award for best foreign film, and finally got to see it on it’s release in Los Angeles, and was blown away, even being the second Ghenghis Khan film I have seen this year (the other [...]

Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)

9 February 2006

I got this film around the time that the remake of Solaris came out, but saw the remake and really didn’t like it at all. And then I tried watching the first adaption (from a Novel by Stanislaw Lem), and didn’t get through 20 minutes. Well lately I have been watching a lot of Kurosawa [...]