A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast with Ally Pitts
TV & Film:Film Reviews
In the spirit of High Fidelity, Ally Pitts brings you an audio listicle of some awesome movies he saw for the first time in 2023.
They are, in the order they appear on the episode:
- Conscience (Volodymr Denisenko; 1968)
- Fright Night (Tom Holland; 1985)
- Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr; 1989)
- The Queen of Spades (Thorold Dickinson;1949)
- The Afterlight (Charlie Shackleton; 2021)
Honourable mentions to:
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko; 1977)
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Ally's Letterboxd page
- Get a 30-day free trial of MUBI
- Ally's MUBI recommendations
- Klassiki (there’s a free 7-day trial available via their website, and you can get 50% off an annual subscription, with the code RUPOD50)
- The Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford
- MK Horror's Facebook group
Contact us:
(We've changed the name of the show, but the social handles are staying the same for now).
Email: russophilesunite@gmail.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/russophiles_unite/
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/Ally_Pitts/
The platform formerly known as Twitter: @RussophilesU
Listen to Ally's other podcast appearances on Podchaser
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STATE FUNERAL (Sergei Loznitsa; 2019)
Gorky Park (Michael Apted; 1983)
Khraniteli (Soviet TV version of The Lord of the Rings)
Interview with Alex Christofi, author of Dostoevsky in Love
I am Twenty (Marlen Khutsiev; 1965)
A Russian Youth (Alexander Zolotukhin; 2019)
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov; 2019)
Interview with Kino Klassika season manager Olga Doletskaya
War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk; 1966)
Morozko [AKA Frosty AKA Father Frost AKA Jack Frost...] (Alexander Rou; 1964)
Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (Blake Harris; 2020)
Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov; 2018)
Brief Encounters (Kira Muratova; 1967)
Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan (Sergei Bodrov Sr; 2007)
Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov; 2002)
My Boyfriend is an Angel (Vera Storozheva; 2011)
Office Romance (Eldar Ryazanov; 1977)
Chapaev (Sergey & Georgy Vasilyev; 1934)
Anna (Luc Besson; 2019)
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