For 50 issues, lasting from 2012 to 2016, the Bubble Comics comic book series Major Grom, which was created by Artyom Gabrelyanov and Evgeny Fedotov, told readers stories about Igor Grom, a police major in the city of Saint Petersburg, who is – according to Wikipedia – “known for his uncompromising attitude to crime, his honesty and integrity, as well as his detective abilities and hand-to-hand combat skills.” Soon after the comic book finished its 50 issue run, a 29 minute Major Grom short was released into the world, and that paved the way for the production of a Major Grom feature film, Major Grom: Plague Doctor, which was released in 2021 and was “a loose adaptation of the first story arc of the comic series, telling the story of the confrontation between police major Igor Grom and the vigilante murderer known as Plague Doctor.” The sequel Major Grom: The Game is set to be released on May 23rd,...
- 4/26/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
This 2011 theatrical remake of John le Carré’s spy classic is a happy surprise — it’s every bit as distinctive and accomplished as the famed Alec Guinness TV miniseries. Swedish director Tomas Alfredson and the writers know how to tell a story — at just over two hours it’s neither bloated nor curtailed. Gary Oldman immediately makes the brilliant George Smiley his own — he’s younger but just as quiet and secretive. Oldman is surrounded by distinctive talent, an ensemble that serves the story: John Hurt, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Ciarán Hinds, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy. It’s a delight for mystery-spy fans whether or not they’re familiar with the John le Carré-George Smiley universe.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
2011 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 128 min. / Street Date February 22, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 39.95
Starring: Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Toby Jones,...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
2011 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 128 min. / Street Date February 22, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 39.95
Starring: Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Toby Jones,...
- 4/19/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Dmitriy Kiselev’s overlooked Russian thriller is an exciting and inspirational true account of the first walk in space by a Soviet cosmonaut — a mission that nearly became a tragedy. It’s almost as emotional an experience as Apollo 13 — the worthy cosmonauts demonstrate ‘the right stuff’ under much more trying conditions. The beautifully produced and splendidly acted show makes it seem a crime that foreign movies this good are routinely denied theatrical exhibition here. The Blu-ray comes with an excellent pair of featurettes, with the participation of the original spacewalker Alexey Leonov.
Spacewalker
Blu-ray
Capelight
2017 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 137 min. / Vremya pervykh (The First Time); Spacewalker / Street Date January 19, 2021 / Available from Amazon / (pretty cheap)
Starring: Evgeniy Mironov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Ilin, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Aleksandra Ursulyak, Elena Panova, Aleksandr Novin, Gennadiy Smirnov, Yuriy Nifontov, Sergey Batalov.
Cinematography: Vladimir Bashta
Visuyal Effects supervisors: Kirill Kulakov, Sergei Nevshupov, Pavel Perepyolkin
Film Editors: Anton Anisimov,...
Spacewalker
Blu-ray
Capelight
2017 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 137 min. / Vremya pervykh (The First Time); Spacewalker / Street Date January 19, 2021 / Available from Amazon / (pretty cheap)
Starring: Evgeniy Mironov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Ilin, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Aleksandra Ursulyak, Elena Panova, Aleksandr Novin, Gennadiy Smirnov, Yuriy Nifontov, Sergey Batalov.
Cinematography: Vladimir Bashta
Visuyal Effects supervisors: Kirill Kulakov, Sergei Nevshupov, Pavel Perepyolkin
Film Editors: Anton Anisimov,...
- 4/17/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Paris-based outfit Reel Suspects has acquired “The Three,” directed by up-and-coming Armenian-Russian filmmaker Anna Melikyan. “The Three” will have its international premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and will be distributed in Russia by Disney in December.
Penned by Melikyan and Evgenia Khripkova, “The Three” revolves around a husband, a wife and another woman.
The cast is headlined by local stars Konstantin Khabenskiy, Viktoriya Isakova, and Yulia Peresild, a young Moscow theater actor. Melikyan produced the film through her banner Magnum film company, along with Natella Krapivina and Artem Vasilyev.
“We are really exited to work on Anna’s most recent work. A subtle romance driven by an amazing cast and signed by a wonderful cinematographic camera work. Festivals and buyers will fall surely under the charm,” said Matteo Lovadina, the CEO of Reel Suspects, who will start selling the film at the American Film Market, which kicks off Monday.
Penned by Melikyan and Evgenia Khripkova, “The Three” revolves around a husband, a wife and another woman.
The cast is headlined by local stars Konstantin Khabenskiy, Viktoriya Isakova, and Yulia Peresild, a young Moscow theater actor. Melikyan produced the film through her banner Magnum film company, along with Natella Krapivina and Artem Vasilyev.
“We are really exited to work on Anna’s most recent work. A subtle romance driven by an amazing cast and signed by a wonderful cinematographic camera work. Festivals and buyers will fall surely under the charm,” said Matteo Lovadina, the CEO of Reel Suspects, who will start selling the film at the American Film Market, which kicks off Monday.
- 11/6/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Fairy
Armenian-Russian director Anna Melikyan should have Fairy, her sixth narrative feature, ready for 2020. Produced by Melikyan and Natalya Poklad (who produced Melikyan’s 2017 comedy About Love. For Adults Only), it will serve as the first feature for Dp Andrey Maika and composer Kirill Rikhter. Her cast is headlined by Konstantin Khabenskiy, the lead from Timur Bekmambetov’s Night Watch (2004) and Day Watch (2006), joined by Ingeborga Dapkunaite (Seven Years in Tibet; Hannibal) and Tinatin Dalakishvili. Melikyan is still best known for her 2007 sophomore film Mermaid, which won her the Directing Award in the World Dramatic competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Fipresci Prize out of the Panorama sidebar in Berlin the same year.…...
Armenian-Russian director Anna Melikyan should have Fairy, her sixth narrative feature, ready for 2020. Produced by Melikyan and Natalya Poklad (who produced Melikyan’s 2017 comedy About Love. For Adults Only), it will serve as the first feature for Dp Andrey Maika and composer Kirill Rikhter. Her cast is headlined by Konstantin Khabenskiy, the lead from Timur Bekmambetov’s Night Watch (2004) and Day Watch (2006), joined by Ingeborga Dapkunaite (Seven Years in Tibet; Hannibal) and Tinatin Dalakishvili. Melikyan is still best known for her 2007 sophomore film Mermaid, which won her the Directing Award in the World Dramatic competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Fipresci Prize out of the Panorama sidebar in Berlin the same year.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Directed by Aleksey Nuzhny, the film is produced by the heavyweight trio of Leonid Vereschagin, Anton Zlatopolskiy and Nikita Mikhalkov.
Leading Russian sales agent and distributor Central Partnership is launching pre-sales at Afm on big-budget action film Fire.
Directed by Aleksey Nuzhny, the film is produced by the heavyweight trio of Leonid Vereschagin, Anton Zlatopolskiy and Nikita Mikhalkov, who collaborated on Olympic basketball movie Three Seconds (aka Going Vertical), Russia’s highest-grossing film ever.
Fire follows so-called “smoke jumpers”, rescuers called on to show extreme bravery on a regular basis in putting out forest fires. The film, which is in post-production,...
Leading Russian sales agent and distributor Central Partnership is launching pre-sales at Afm on big-budget action film Fire.
Directed by Aleksey Nuzhny, the film is produced by the heavyweight trio of Leonid Vereschagin, Anton Zlatopolskiy and Nikita Mikhalkov, who collaborated on Olympic basketball movie Three Seconds (aka Going Vertical), Russia’s highest-grossing film ever.
Fire follows so-called “smoke jumpers”, rescuers called on to show extreme bravery on a regular basis in putting out forest fires. The film, which is in post-production,...
- 11/9/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
SOBIBÓR Samuel Goldwyn Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net by: Harvey Karten Director: Konstantin Khabenskiy Screenwriter: Anna Chernakova, Michael Edelstein, Ilya Vasiliev, based on the book by Ilya Vasiliev: “Alexander Pechersky: Breakthrough to Immortality” Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Mariya Kozhevnikova, Michalina Olszanska, Philippe Reinhardt Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 3/7/19 Opens: March 29, 2019 […]
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- 3/24/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"We'll never forgive them again." Samuel Goldwyn Films has debuted an official trailer for the true story World War II survival thriller Sobibor, about the revolt and escape at the concentration camp known as Sobibór in Poland. The story goes that, after only three weeks imprisoned at this Nazi death camp in Poland in 1943, Soviet Officer Alexander Pechersky organized a mass revolt and prison break, successfully escaping and helping many of the other prisoners escape as well. Many of the escapees were later caught and died - but the rest, led by Pechersky, eventually joined the resistance. The film stars Konstantin Khabenskiy as Pechersky, who is also making his directorial debut on this film, with a full cast including Christopher Lambert, Mariya Kozhevnikova, Michalina Olszanska, Philippe Reinhardt, Maximilian Dirr, Mindaugas Papinigis, and Wolfgang Cerny. This seems to be yet another intense WWII concentration camp film, but with some hope considering...
- 3/1/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up North American rights to Russian blockbuster Sobibor, the WW2 drama from actor-turned-director Konstantin Khabenskiy.
Khabenskiy stars in the true-life story of Alexander Pechersky, the Soviet prisoner who led the only successful revolt in a Nazi death camp, Sobibor, in Poland in 1943. Christopher Lambert plays the head of the Nazi camp.
The Sobibor story has been told before on film. Claude Lanzmann told the tale of the Pechersky uprising in his 2001 documentary Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Jack Gold's 1987 TV movie Escape from Sobibor featured Rutger Hauer as Pechersky.
Khabensky's version ...
Khabenskiy stars in the true-life story of Alexander Pechersky, the Soviet prisoner who led the only successful revolt in a Nazi death camp, Sobibor, in Poland in 1943. Christopher Lambert plays the head of the Nazi camp.
The Sobibor story has been told before on film. Claude Lanzmann told the tale of the Pechersky uprising in his 2001 documentary Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Jack Gold's 1987 TV movie Escape from Sobibor featured Rutger Hauer as Pechersky.
Khabensky's version ...
- 11/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up North American rights to Russian blockbuster Sobibor, the WW2 drama from actor-turned-director Konstantin Khabenskiy.
Khabenskiy stars in the true-life story of Alexander Pechersky, the Soviet prisoner who led the only successful revolt in a Nazi death camp, Sobibor, in Poland in 1943. Christopher Lambert plays the head of the Nazi camp.
The Sobibor story has been told before on film. Claude Lanzmann told the tale of the Pechersky uprising in his 2001 documentary Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Jack Gold's 1987 TV movie Escape from Sobibor featured Rutger Hauer as Pechersky.
Khabensky's version ...
Khabenskiy stars in the true-life story of Alexander Pechersky, the Soviet prisoner who led the only successful revolt in a Nazi death camp, Sobibor, in Poland in 1943. Christopher Lambert plays the head of the Nazi camp.
The Sobibor story has been told before on film. Claude Lanzmann told the tale of the Pechersky uprising in his 2001 documentary Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Jack Gold's 1987 TV movie Escape from Sobibor featured Rutger Hauer as Pechersky.
Khabensky's version ...
- 11/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Russian star Konstantin Khabenskiy rose to international fame through his lead roles in Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch films - followed by a memorable support part in Bekmambetov's English debut Wanted - and he now makes his directorial debut with the upcoming Sobibor. And, yeah, it would appear he's learned a thing or two over his long career as one of Russia's most notable leading men. Sobibor itself was one of the most notorious Nazi death camps in Poland, believed to be the site of the mass executions of at least a quarter million Jews. But at the end of its life Sobibor was also the site of a successful escape with 600 prisoners engaging in revolt, roughly half of those making it out of the...
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- 5/16/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Prominent Russian film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov was put under house arrest Wednesday after spending a night in jail.
A Moscow court ignored offers from leading cultural figures — including director and actor Fedor Bondarchuk, actors Chulpan Khamatova and Konstantin Khabensky and singer Filip Kirkorov — to put up bail money for Serebrennikov.
Serebrennikov was detained Tuesday on suspicion of a role in the embezzlement of 68 million rubles ($1.2 million) in government funds allocated for the theater company Sedmaya Studia, which he used to head.
Many in Russia believe that the case involving Serebrennikov is absurd, and some...
A Moscow court ignored offers from leading cultural figures — including director and actor Fedor Bondarchuk, actors Chulpan Khamatova and Konstantin Khabensky and singer Filip Kirkorov — to put up bail money for Serebrennikov.
Serebrennikov was detained Tuesday on suspicion of a role in the embezzlement of 68 million rubles ($1.2 million) in government funds allocated for the theater company Sedmaya Studia, which he used to head.
Many in Russia believe that the case involving Serebrennikov is absurd, and some...
- 8/23/2017
- by Vladimir Kozlov ,Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A few years back I had the opportunity to spend a few days around Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov at a film festival and if I learned anything about the man in that time it's that he loves anything that flies. Which makes him an absolutely perfect producer for his frequent collaborator Dmitriy (Black Lightning) Kiselev's upcoming feature Время Первых, known variously as First Time, the more literal translation Time Of The Pioneers or - what appears to be the official international title - The Space Walker. With a cast including Konstantin Khabensky (Wanted, Night Watch), Vladimir Ilyin (Lost In Siberia) and Yelena Panova (Metro) the film tells the story of Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov who conducted the first ever spacewalk, becoming the first human ever...
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- 3/10/2017
- Screen Anarchy
English language film has long been a place for some of the greatest horror film directors of all time. All the way back to Alfred Hitchcock, we have seen the genre grow and develop sub-genres, thanks to the public’s ongoing thirst for fear and the possibility of danger around every turn. But, for every Saw or Hostel or terrible remake of classic English-language horror films, there are inventive, terrifying films made somewhere else that inspire and even outdo many of our best Western world horror films. This list will count down the fifty definitive horror films with a main language that isn’t English; some may have some English-language parts in them, but they are, for the most part, foreign. Enlighten yourself. Broaden your horizons. People can get murdered and tortured in every language.
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
- 10/23/2015
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
Black Sea is a gripping adventure that takes audiences to the depths of human greed in a suspenseful underwater search for sunken treasure that becomes a fight for survival. Directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, The Last King of Scotland) and starring two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain), the suspenseful Focus Features thriller debuts on Digital HD on April 21, 2015 and on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD as well as On Demand May 5, 2015 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
Black Sea centers on a rogue submarine captain (Jude Law) who, after being laid off from a salvage company, pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As the captain and his crew embark on their expedition, greed and desperation take control on board their claustrophobic vessel...
Black Sea centers on a rogue submarine captain (Jude Law) who, after being laid off from a salvage company, pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As the captain and his crew embark on their expedition, greed and desperation take control on board their claustrophobic vessel...
- 3/30/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – I’m on board with Jude Law leading a film and neutral about submarine movies as a genre. My primary pre-screening interest in the quietly marketed thriller “Black Sea” was what Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald would do with this material following his hit with the hard-hitting drama “The Last King of Scotland”.
As it turns out, Jude Law as a desperate, angry and greedy skipper is not nearly as impactful as Forest Whitaker’s brutal Ugandan dictator. And “Black Sea,” which dives down to oceanic hull break point, isn’t propelled by nearly as deep of a story as the Oscar-winning Whitaker film.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
As for standing the test of time, “Black Sea” won’t. The film will not appear on favorite submarine film lists in the company of greats including “The Hunt for Red October,” “Crimson Tide,” “U-571,” “K-19: The Widow Maker,” “The Abyss” and “20,000 Leagues Under...
As it turns out, Jude Law as a desperate, angry and greedy skipper is not nearly as impactful as Forest Whitaker’s brutal Ugandan dictator. And “Black Sea,” which dives down to oceanic hull break point, isn’t propelled by nearly as deep of a story as the Oscar-winning Whitaker film.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
As for standing the test of time, “Black Sea” won’t. The film will not appear on favorite submarine film lists in the company of greats including “The Hunt for Red October,” “Crimson Tide,” “U-571,” “K-19: The Widow Maker,” “The Abyss” and “20,000 Leagues Under...
- 2/1/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 75 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new thriller “Black Sea” starring Jude Law from Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”)!
“Black Sea,” which opens in Chicago on Jan. 30, 2015 and is rated “R,” also stars Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Jodie Whittaker, Tobias Menzies, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Michael Smiley, Karl Davies, Konstantin Khabenskiy and Daniel Ryan from director Kevin Macdonald and writer Dennis Kelly. Note: You must be 17+ to enter and win this “R”-rated Hookup.
To win your free “Black Sea” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your...
“Black Sea,” which opens in Chicago on Jan. 30, 2015 and is rated “R,” also stars Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Jodie Whittaker, Tobias Menzies, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Michael Smiley, Karl Davies, Konstantin Khabenskiy and Daniel Ryan from director Kevin Macdonald and writer Dennis Kelly. Note: You must be 17+ to enter and win this “R”-rated Hookup.
To win your free “Black Sea” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your...
- 1/28/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Outside a submarine thousands of leagues under the sea lies a dark, cold death. Inside the sub lies a crew on a mission that could salvage their lives…Mining full-speed-ahead tension from a fathoms-deep treasure hunt, Black Sea is a suspenseful adventure thriller directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald.
Robinson (two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law) is a submarine captain, and the sea calls him at the expense of all else: his nearly 30 years of voyages have cost him the love of his wife Chrissy (Jodie Whittaker) and child. When the salvage company for whom he has toiled over 11 years abruptly lays him off, this working-class ex-Navy man finds himself adrift.
But after hearing the tale of a German U-boat full of WWII-era gold sitting on a bed in the Georgian depths of the Black Sea, the captain feels he can prove himself anew. He jumps at a funding...
Robinson (two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law) is a submarine captain, and the sea calls him at the expense of all else: his nearly 30 years of voyages have cost him the love of his wife Chrissy (Jodie Whittaker) and child. When the salvage company for whom he has toiled over 11 years abruptly lays him off, this working-class ex-Navy man finds himself adrift.
But after hearing the tale of a German U-boat full of WWII-era gold sitting on a bed in the Georgian depths of the Black Sea, the captain feels he can prove himself anew. He jumps at a funding...
- 1/26/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Lower Depths: MacDonald’s Latest a Tense Deep Sea Treasure Hunt
While it’s being treated to a December release in his native UK, director Kevin MacDonald’s latest feature film, Black Sea, gets plopped into Us theaters in January, perhaps signaling a wise move so that it will stand out amidst the litter of debris that constitutes the vein of awards fodder holdovers and studio doldrums flooding the theaters during that season. Fresh from his enjoyable dip into Ya dystopia with How I Live Now, MacDonald returns to a tale bearing a bit more historical baggage, spiriting us away into a homosocial space of mounting tensions and rival cultural attitudes. A likeable lead performance from Jude Law plus a handful of nervy twists and turns helps its claustrophobic narrative chug along to a finale of limited possibilities.
Being informed he’s about to be laid off by his employer,...
While it’s being treated to a December release in his native UK, director Kevin MacDonald’s latest feature film, Black Sea, gets plopped into Us theaters in January, perhaps signaling a wise move so that it will stand out amidst the litter of debris that constitutes the vein of awards fodder holdovers and studio doldrums flooding the theaters during that season. Fresh from his enjoyable dip into Ya dystopia with How I Live Now, MacDonald returns to a tale bearing a bit more historical baggage, spiriting us away into a homosocial space of mounting tensions and rival cultural attitudes. A likeable lead performance from Jude Law plus a handful of nervy twists and turns helps its claustrophobic narrative chug along to a finale of limited possibilities.
Being informed he’s about to be laid off by his employer,...
- 1/21/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A suspenseful adventure thriller directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald, centering on a rogue submarine captain (two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law) who pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control onboard their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival. The movie stars Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Karl Davies, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall, and Konstantin Khabensky. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. “Black Sea” opens in a limited release on January 30 in New York City [ Read More ]
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- 1/20/2015
- by Rudie Obias
- ShockYa
Heist movies are universally loved yet rarely reinvented, as they typically assemble a band of misfits who work towards a collective criminal goal involving immense riches. Most of the time you’ll see a bank being robbed, or there’s the Ocean’s gang infiltrating casinos, and we can’t forget when those Fast & Furious boys/gals stole an entire vault – but we haven’t seen that many underwater heist films.
Sure, Black Sea isn’t a straightforward smash-and-grab story, but Kevin Macdonald’s latest film is an unconventional heist movie at its core. There’s a rag-tag team, their treacherous submersible journey, and a buttload of Nazi gold hidden deep inside a sunken German U-Boat – there just happens to be a little more drama involved thanks to the creaky Russian submarine used to navigate Jordanian/Russian waters. Don’t expect a quirky seafaring adventure from this lot of gold-digging sailors,...
Sure, Black Sea isn’t a straightforward smash-and-grab story, but Kevin Macdonald’s latest film is an unconventional heist movie at its core. There’s a rag-tag team, their treacherous submersible journey, and a buttload of Nazi gold hidden deep inside a sunken German U-Boat – there just happens to be a little more drama involved thanks to the creaky Russian submarine used to navigate Jordanian/Russian waters. Don’t expect a quirky seafaring adventure from this lot of gold-digging sailors,...
- 1/19/2015
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
A suspenseful adventure thriller directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald, centering on a rogue submarine captain (two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law) who pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control onboard their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival. The movie stars Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Karl Davies, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall, and Konstantin Khabensky. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. “Black Sea” opens in a limited release on January 30 in New York City [ Read More ]
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- 1/9/2015
- by Rudie Obias
- ShockYa
Director: Kevin Macdonald; Screenwriter: Dennis Kelly; Starring: Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Karl Davies, Ben Mendelsohn, Konstantin Khabensky, Grigoriy Dobrygin; Running time: 115 mins; Certificate: 15
Here's a submarine thriller that delivers on tension but doesn't get too deep, which is surprising when you consider that director Kevin Macdonald is also the man behind The Last King of Scotland and State of Play. Still, there is some meat for Jude Law to chew on as the captain of an undersea mission to recover a stash of gold and he proves himself a sturdy anchor.
Apart from an impressive Scottish accent, the actor shows some serious grit as Captain Robinson, who is laid off after years of loyal service to a salvage company. For a while it looks as though Macdonald is venturing into a socialist diatribe against big business as Robinson and his colleagues gather at the pub to fuel their anger. The...
Here's a submarine thriller that delivers on tension but doesn't get too deep, which is surprising when you consider that director Kevin Macdonald is also the man behind The Last King of Scotland and State of Play. Still, there is some meat for Jude Law to chew on as the captain of an undersea mission to recover a stash of gold and he proves himself a sturdy anchor.
Apart from an impressive Scottish accent, the actor shows some serious grit as Captain Robinson, who is laid off after years of loyal service to a salvage company. For a while it looks as though Macdonald is venturing into a socialist diatribe against big business as Robinson and his colleagues gather at the pub to fuel their anger. The...
- 12/3/2014
- Digital Spy
Sneak Peek footage from director Kevin Macdonald's 'submarine thriller' "Black Sea", starring Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Michael Smiley, David Threlfall, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Sergey Kolesnikov, Sergey Puskepalis and Jodie Whitaker, opening January 23, 2015:
"...a rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure of Third Reich gold, rumored to be lost in the depths of the 'Black Sea'.
"As greed and desperation take control onboard their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Black Sea"...
"...a rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure of Third Reich gold, rumored to be lost in the depths of the 'Black Sea'.
"As greed and desperation take control onboard their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Black Sea"...
- 11/19/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
"Black Sea" centers on a rogue submarine captain (Law) who, after being laid off from a salvage company, pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control onboard their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.Law's international costars include Grigoriy Dobrygin, Konstantin Khabenskiy ("Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"), Scoot McNairy ("Argo"), Ben Mendelsohn ("The Place Beyond the Pines"), Michael Smiley ("Kill List") and David Threlfall ("Nowhere Boy"). Macdonald previously directed Channing Tatum in "The Eagle" (2011), Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams and Helen Mirren in "State of Play" (2009) and Forest Whitaker in "The Last King of Scotland," whose performance as Idi Amin won him an Oscar...
- 10/2/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Kevin Macdonald’s oceanbed-set Black Sea sends Jude Law and a crew of desperate, sweaty men into the murky depths in pursuit of sunken treasure. The film lands with us this December and has a first trailer to reveal some of its treasures.A bit boy’s own adventure, a little desperate-treasure-hunt thriller, Black Sea’s storyline has shades of The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre meets Das Boot with a rogue’s gallery of double-crossers-in-waiting types. Law’s hired crew is an uneasy mix of Russian and English sailors, played by the likes of Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall, Night Watch’s Konstantin Khabenskiy, A Most Wanted Man’s Grigoriy Dobrygin and Michael Smiley, each less trustworthy than the last, each thirsting for booty. No, not that kind.Leading this salty dozen is Jude Law’s captain, a man under pressure after losing his job at a salvage company.
- 10/2/2014
- EmpireOnline
Universal Pictures UK has released the first trailer for Kevin Macdonald's "Black Sea" starring Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Konstantin Khabensky, and Michael Smiley.
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law captains the cast of Black Sea, the suspenseful adventure thriller directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, The Last King of Scotland).
"Black Sea" centres on a rogue submarine captain (Jude Law) who, after being laid off from a salvage company, pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumoured to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
Have a look at the trailer and poster below.
Source: Universal Pictures UK...
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law captains the cast of Black Sea, the suspenseful adventure thriller directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, The Last King of Scotland).
"Black Sea" centres on a rogue submarine captain (Jude Law) who, after being laid off from a salvage company, pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumoured to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
Have a look at the trailer and poster below.
Source: Universal Pictures UK...
- 10/2/2014
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
English language film has long been a place for some of the greatest horror film directors of all time. All the way back to Alfred Hitchcock, we have seen the genre grow and develop sub-genres, thanks to the public’s ongoing thirst for fear and the possibility of danger around every turn. But, for every Saw or Hostel or terrible remake of classic English-language horror films, there are inventive, terrifying films made somewhere else that inspire and even outdo many of our best Western world horror films. This list will count down the fifty definitive horror films with a main language that isn’t English; some may have some English-language parts in them, but they are, for the most part, foreign. Enlighten yourself. Broaden your horizons. People can get murdered and tortured in every language.
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
- 7/7/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
Right on the heels of Universal moving Fast & Furious 7 up a week from April 10th, 2015, to April 3rd, Focus Features has announced some schedule changes of its own for 2015. Now, horror threequel Insidious: Chapter 3 will open not on April 3rd next year but May 29th. Furthermore, sci-fi drama Selfless has moved from February 27th to April 17th, and Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald’s treasure hunt drama Black Sea has been set for January 23rd.
Now, let’s look at those one at a time.
We don’t know much about Insidious: Chapter 3 other than that it will star The Grey actor Dermot Mulroney and A.N.T. Farm actress Stefanie Scott. Leigh Whannell is both directing and scripting this installment, and he is also expected to reprise his role as Specs. Also returning from previous installments will be Angus Sampson as Tucker and Lin Shaye as Elise Rainier. Unfortunately, Insidious...
Now, let’s look at those one at a time.
We don’t know much about Insidious: Chapter 3 other than that it will star The Grey actor Dermot Mulroney and A.N.T. Farm actress Stefanie Scott. Leigh Whannell is both directing and scripting this installment, and he is also expected to reprise his role as Specs. Also returning from previous installments will be Angus Sampson as Tucker and Lin Shaye as Elise Rainier. Unfortunately, Insidious...
- 7/3/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald’s treasure hunt adventure Black Sea starring Jude Law as a submarine captain with a mutinous misfit crew will get a limited release January 23, Focus Features said today. Written by Dennis Kelly, Black Sea also stars Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Konstantin Khabenskiy and Michael Smiley. The only wide release dated that weekend is Universal’s Blumhouse thriller The Boy Next Door, directed by Rob Cohen and starring Jennifer Lopez. Focus also unveiled two date changes today: Tarsem Singh’s sci-fi drama Selfless starring Ryan Reynolds and Michelle Dockery moves from February 27 to April 17, while Leigh Whannell’s Insidious: Chapter 3 slides from its spring date of […]...
- 7/3/2014
- Deadline
Ahead of this week’s Nika Awards ceremony in Moscow, Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin heard the plans by Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky to re-launch the film festival in Crimea’s Yalta and the festival for children’s cinema in the small resort town of Gurzuf.
Speaking to the Ria-Novosti agency after his meeting with Putin, Medinsky said he believed that both festivals could take place again this year and suggested that these events - as well as an international jazz festival in Koktebel - could help attract guests from all over Russia - and later on, from all over the world.
The meeting between Putin and Medinsky also centred on the proposal to reactivate the Yalta Film Studios on the peninsula as a centre for national production. In Soviet times, these studios had hosted such productions as Andrey Tarkovsky’s Solaris, Amphibian Man, Prisoner Of The Caucasus and Kidnapping, Caucasian Style.
Last...
Speaking to the Ria-Novosti agency after his meeting with Putin, Medinsky said he believed that both festivals could take place again this year and suggested that these events - as well as an international jazz festival in Koktebel - could help attract guests from all over Russia - and later on, from all over the world.
The meeting between Putin and Medinsky also centred on the proposal to reactivate the Yalta Film Studios on the peninsula as a centre for national production. In Soviet times, these studios had hosted such productions as Andrey Tarkovsky’s Solaris, Amphibian Man, Prisoner Of The Caucasus and Kidnapping, Caucasian Style.
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- 4/3/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Last year's festival favorite The Geographer Drank His Globe Away from from director Aleksandr Veledinskiy was the big winner at this year's Russian Film Academy Awards, winning best film, best director and honors for best actor and actress, respectively, for stars Konstantin Khabensky and Yelena Lyadova. The drama about the life of a provincial high school teacher (Khabensky), also won best score for composer Alexei Zubarev at Russia's equivalent to the Oscars, called the Nikas. The Geographer has been a favorite on the festival circuit, taking top honors at Russia's Kinotavr festival last summer. It has done less well at
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- 4/2/2014
- by Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
★★★☆☆Winner of the Grand Prix prize at this year's Kinotavr Film Festival, Aleksandr Veledinskiy's The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013) stars Konstantin Khabenskiy (most familiar to UK audiences for his lead role in Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch) and is based on the eponymous novel by Alexander Ivanovo. A tragically comedic investigation into Russia's ideological shift from the socialist-realist notion of 'the great family', it chronicles the endeavours of washed-up biologist Viktor Sluzhin (Khabenskiy), a drunken loser seemingly devoid of courage, fortitude and nobility - the antithesis of the anti-hero.
- 11/17/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Russian films scooped the two major prizes late Saturday at the awards ceremony of the 23rd edition of the Film Festival Cottbus, Europe's leading spotlight on Eastern European movies. Alexander Veledinsky's The Geographer Drank His Globe Away, starring Konstantin Khabensky as a hapless alcoholic whose life changes for the better when he lands a job as a school teacher in a provincial city, took the main Lubina glass statuette and a cash prize worth $26,000. Khabensky recently played a Soviet spy in Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of British writer John Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Film Review: The Geographer Drank
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- 11/10/2013
- by Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Focus Features and Film4 have kicked off the UK production of director Kevin Macdonald's maritime thriller "Black Sea." Starring Jude Law as an intrepid sea captain, the film sails into theaters in 2014. Here's the official synopsis:'Black Sea' centers on a rogue submarine captain (Law) who, after being laid off from a salvage company, pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control onboard their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival. Law's international costars include Grigoriy Dobrygin, Konstantin Khabenskiy ("Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"), Scoot McNairy ("Argo"), Ben Mendelsohn ("The Place Beyond the Pines"), Michael Smiley ("Kill List") and David Threlfall ("Nowhere Boy"). Macdonald previously directed Channing Tatum in "The Eagle" (2011), Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck,...
- 8/9/2013
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Production has officially started on Kevin MacDonald’s next film Black Sea, details of which can be found below:
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law captains the cast of Black Sea, the suspenseful adventure thriller being directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September) and produced by Charles Steel for Cowboy Films. Black Sea, which will be released in 2014, is co-produced and co-financed by Focus and Film4. Focus CEO James Schamus and Focus co-ceo Andrew Karpen made the announcement today…. Black Sea centers on a rogue submarine captain (Mr. Law) who, after being laid off from a salvage company, pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control onboard their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law captains the cast of Black Sea, the suspenseful adventure thriller being directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September) and produced by Charles Steel for Cowboy Films. Black Sea, which will be released in 2014, is co-produced and co-financed by Focus and Film4. Focus CEO James Schamus and Focus co-ceo Andrew Karpen made the announcement today…. Black Sea centers on a rogue submarine captain (Mr. Law) who, after being laid off from a salvage company, pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control onboard their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
- 8/8/2013
- by Rob Batchelor
- We Got This Covered
Michael Smiley, David Threlfall, Ben Mendelsohn and Jodie Whittaker join Jude Law on submarine thriller, which has begun production in the UK.
Kevin Macdonald’s Black Sea, starring Jude Law as a salvage submarine captain that goes rogue, has begun shooting in the UK and new cast members have been revealed.
Boarding the project are Bifa winner Michael Smiley, star of Kill List, and David Threlfall, best known for his long-running role in UK drama Shameless. Also joining are Ben Mendelsohn, recently seen opposite Ryan Gosling in The Place Beyond the Pines, and Jodie Whittaker, star of Attack the Block, Venus and Good Vibrations.
They join a cast that already includes Scoot McNairy (Argo), Grigoriy Dobrygin, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Sergey Kolesnikov and Sergey Puskepalis.
The film centres on a rogue submarine captain who - after being laid off from a salvage company - pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost...
Kevin Macdonald’s Black Sea, starring Jude Law as a salvage submarine captain that goes rogue, has begun shooting in the UK and new cast members have been revealed.
Boarding the project are Bifa winner Michael Smiley, star of Kill List, and David Threlfall, best known for his long-running role in UK drama Shameless. Also joining are Ben Mendelsohn, recently seen opposite Ryan Gosling in The Place Beyond the Pines, and Jodie Whittaker, star of Attack the Block, Venus and Good Vibrations.
They join a cast that already includes Scoot McNairy (Argo), Grigoriy Dobrygin, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Sergey Kolesnikov and Sergey Puskepalis.
The film centres on a rogue submarine captain who - after being laid off from a salvage company - pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost...
- 8/8/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law captains the cast of Black Sea, the suspenseful adventure thriller being directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September) and produced by Charles Steel for Cowboy Films. Black Sea, which will be released in 2014, is co-produced and co-financed by Focus and Film4. Focus CEO James Schamus and Focus co-ceo Andrew Karpen made the announcement today.
Focus holds worldwide rights – excluding U.K. free-tv rights, which are held by Film4 – to the movie. Focus executive vice president, international production Teresa Moneo is supervising Black Sea for president of production Jeb Brody. Filming has commenced in the U.K.
Black Sea is being produced by Mr. Macdonald alongside Mr. Steel, who reteam following Mr. Macdonald’s latest film as director, How I Live Now, starring Saoirse Ronan and George MacKay, which will be released this fall. Cowboy Films also produced Mr. Macdonald’s The Last King of Scotland,...
Focus holds worldwide rights – excluding U.K. free-tv rights, which are held by Film4 – to the movie. Focus executive vice president, international production Teresa Moneo is supervising Black Sea for president of production Jeb Brody. Filming has commenced in the U.K.
Black Sea is being produced by Mr. Macdonald alongside Mr. Steel, who reteam following Mr. Macdonald’s latest film as director, How I Live Now, starring Saoirse Ronan and George MacKay, which will be released this fall. Cowboy Films also produced Mr. Macdonald’s The Last King of Scotland,...
- 8/8/2013
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
A still from “Intimate Parts”
T he 24th edition of the Kinotavr Film Festival was held from 4-9 June 2013 at the ‘Russian Riviera’, Sochi on the Black Sea. The festival only showcases the latest Russian cinema and has become an important date on the calendar of filmmakers, producers, distributors and everyone else in Russia and the Cis involved with the film industry. There is the Competition section along with the section that goes for the Audience Awards – the popular cinema in the open on the Square, a section curated by Sergei Lavrentsiev, entitled ‘Oh War, What Did You Do?’, Short Films Competition, Master Classes and roundtables on Russian cinema…. There was a Distributors’ Jury as well, for the first time in the festival. Sochi was bustling, the tourist season was on, as were the preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
If the films in Competition are any indication, the new Russian...
T he 24th edition of the Kinotavr Film Festival was held from 4-9 June 2013 at the ‘Russian Riviera’, Sochi on the Black Sea. The festival only showcases the latest Russian cinema and has become an important date on the calendar of filmmakers, producers, distributors and everyone else in Russia and the Cis involved with the film industry. There is the Competition section along with the section that goes for the Audience Awards – the popular cinema in the open on the Square, a section curated by Sergei Lavrentsiev, entitled ‘Oh War, What Did You Do?’, Short Films Competition, Master Classes and roundtables on Russian cinema…. There was a Distributors’ Jury as well, for the first time in the festival. Sochi was bustling, the tourist season was on, as were the preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
If the films in Competition are any indication, the new Russian...
- 6/19/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The debut feature of India’s Anand Gandhi adds to prizes won in Dubai and Tokyo.
This year’s Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) came to a close at the weekend in Cluj-Napoca with the awarding of the main prize, the Transilvania Trophy, to Indian feature debutant Anand Gandhi’s Ship Of Theseus.
The Competition Jury - comprising directors Cristi Puiu and György Pálfi, UK producer Lynda Myles, German actress Franziska Petri and Tribeca’s Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer - said Ship Of Theseus was evidence of “a new major talent of world cinema”.
The film’s also won the Best Cinematography Award for the work of DoP Pankaj Kumar.
Both prizes were accepted in Cluj on their behalf by the film’s Hungarian sound designer Gabor Erdelyi who spoke about the shoot as being a life-changing experience.
Fortissimo Films is handling international sales.
The Best Directing Award went to Japan’s Rikiya Imaizumi for I Catch...
This year’s Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff) came to a close at the weekend in Cluj-Napoca with the awarding of the main prize, the Transilvania Trophy, to Indian feature debutant Anand Gandhi’s Ship Of Theseus.
The Competition Jury - comprising directors Cristi Puiu and György Pálfi, UK producer Lynda Myles, German actress Franziska Petri and Tribeca’s Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer - said Ship Of Theseus was evidence of “a new major talent of world cinema”.
The film’s also won the Best Cinematography Award for the work of DoP Pankaj Kumar.
Both prizes were accepted in Cluj on their behalf by the film’s Hungarian sound designer Gabor Erdelyi who spoke about the shoot as being a life-changing experience.
Fortissimo Films is handling international sales.
The Best Directing Award went to Japan’s Rikiya Imaizumi for I Catch...
- 6/10/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
From animation to epic sci-fi to intimate dramas, here’s our pick of the 50 finest foreign language films of the past ten years…
It is quite clear that mainstream cinema no longer applies just to Hollywood blockbusters, or the odd British comedy. With the advent of mass home cinema in the last decade, and the increasing availability of pretty much anything and everything on DVD, Blu-ray, or streaming services like Netflix, world cinema has finally crossed the divide of being the preserve of the connoisseur, or the type of thing you’d stumble on late at night on TV.
In the last ten years, world cinema has made a massive impact on film-of-the-year lists, and many people’s personal favourites. Starting from 2002 and ending here in 2012, it’s safe to say that you’ll have seen many of the films below, and enjoyed them simply as great pieces of filmmaking,...
It is quite clear that mainstream cinema no longer applies just to Hollywood blockbusters, or the odd British comedy. With the advent of mass home cinema in the last decade, and the increasing availability of pretty much anything and everything on DVD, Blu-ray, or streaming services like Netflix, world cinema has finally crossed the divide of being the preserve of the connoisseur, or the type of thing you’d stumble on late at night on TV.
In the last ten years, world cinema has made a massive impact on film-of-the-year lists, and many people’s personal favourites. Starting from 2002 and ending here in 2012, it’s safe to say that you’ll have seen many of the films below, and enjoyed them simply as great pieces of filmmaking,...
- 2/8/2012
- Den of Geek
Sky Movies has two new character posters for Tomas Alfredson’s “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” featuring the digitized heads of Tom Hardy and Colin Firth. Set in the 1970’s, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy finds George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a recently retired M16 agent, doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the Circus, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage. Tasked with investigating which of his trusted former colleagues has chosen to betray him and their country, Smiley narrows his search to four suspects – all experienced, urbane, successful agents – but past histories, rivalries and friendships make it far from easy to pinpoint the man who is eating away at the heart of the British establishment. Starring Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Ciarán Hinds,...
- 8/16/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Milla Jovovich in a romcom. Honestly I'm surprised this hasn't happened - and happened a lot - before now. And I'm even more surprised that for it to happen she had to go to Russia.
Jovovich is starring opposite Night Watch and Wanted star Konstantin Khabensky - who is looking increasingly weird as he ages - in Russian language romantic comedy Vikrutasi. Jovovich stars as an already engaged woman who attracts the eye of a lonely, single school teacher (Khabensky). And hilarity ensues. Check the trailer - Russian only - below.
Jovovich is starring opposite Night Watch and Wanted star Konstantin Khabensky - who is looking increasingly weird as he ages - in Russian language romantic comedy Vikrutasi. Jovovich stars as an already engaged woman who attracts the eye of a lonely, single school teacher (Khabensky). And hilarity ensues. Check the trailer - Russian only - below.
- 9/28/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Today's indie trailer comes from Russia, a hitman action thriller called The Ghost or Domovoy in Russian. Thanks to Twitch for finding it. I chose to feature it today because I love the concept. It's one of those sleek ideas that you're screenwriting friend would come up with to mirror his own writing troubles. Basically, in The Ghost, a novelist and an actual assassin meet up and start working together, setting up an actual hit so that the novelist can get some real life inspiration. The production value in this looks great as well, it kind of reminds me of Bourne a bit. Give it a shot, you may actually want to see the whole thing after watching this. Watch the international trailer for Karen Oganesyan's The Ghost: [flv:http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/ghost-russian-int-trailer.flv http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/ghost-russian-int-trailer.jpg 564 376] A novelist (Konstantin Khabenskiy) with writer's block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration. The Ghost, aka Domovoy, is...
- 12/20/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Unusual Russian hitman thriller The Ghost (aka Domovoy) is one that received a lot of attention in these pages leading up to its Russian release. Night Watch and Wanted star Konstantin Khabensky stars as a washed out crime novelist who sees a chance to rebuild his life and career when a real life hitman offers to tutor him, to show him how things really work. He jumps at the chance without thinking through the consequences and things - of course - go horribly wrong.
The Russian trailers for the film have gone at this point but the the film about to release on VOD December 30th via IFC's Festival on Demand label, there is a new English language trailer available. You'll find it below.
The Russian trailers for the film have gone at this point but the the film about to release on VOD December 30th via IFC's Festival on Demand label, there is a new English language trailer available. You'll find it below.
- 12/17/2009
- Screen Anarchy
Another movie produced by Timur Bekmambetov for Russian audience after Black Lightning is called Щастье that means Happiness (the word is spelled with mistake intentionally as one of hero's pupils write this way, instead of Щастье it should be Счастье, but both spellings sound the same). Transliteration is hard since there's no mild sign in latin script, so i replace mild sign with apostrophe: Shchast'e.
The movie is directed by Leo Gabriadze and stars Konstantin Khabensky. The current date of release is 29th April, 2009. Synopsis is not yet published so I'll try to make it on my own:
Single school teacher (Khabensky) meets cute woman on vacation and falls in love with her. But there's one problem: he lives in provincial town, and she lives in Moscow. So he decides to move to her. But woman director of the school opposes it and remembers that some time ago he had...
The movie is directed by Leo Gabriadze and stars Konstantin Khabensky. The current date of release is 29th April, 2009. Synopsis is not yet published so I'll try to make it on my own:
Single school teacher (Khabensky) meets cute woman on vacation and falls in love with her. But there's one problem: he lives in provincial town, and she lives in Moscow. So he decides to move to her. But woman director of the school opposes it and remembers that some time ago he had...
- 12/1/2009
- Screen Anarchy
Admittedly, I know very little about upcoming Russian film Skazka Xxi and I must concede the possibility that maybe, perhaps, this would all make more sense if I understood the context. But I doubt it. Here's what I do know:
It is the product of three directors - Aleksander Barshak, Yelizaveta Solomina and Konstantin Statsky - and is a full on musical. It features Night Watch and Wanted actor Konstantin Khabensky in a mad scientist wig. It features omnipresent Russian tough guy - and Khabensky's Night Watch cohort - Yury Kutsenko wearing remarkably bad eyebrow makeup. It has a robot man whose costume is basically just a cardboard box, a sad sailor bear, and a family of toys comes to life who are far to happy to be in a bathroom together. This, my friends, is weird. And also kind of awesome.
It is the product of three directors - Aleksander Barshak, Yelizaveta Solomina and Konstantin Statsky - and is a full on musical. It features Night Watch and Wanted actor Konstantin Khabensky in a mad scientist wig. It features omnipresent Russian tough guy - and Khabensky's Night Watch cohort - Yury Kutsenko wearing remarkably bad eyebrow makeup. It has a robot man whose costume is basically just a cardboard box, a sad sailor bear, and a family of toys comes to life who are far to happy to be in a bathroom together. This, my friends, is weird. And also kind of awesome.
- 11/28/2009
- Screen Anarchy
When Wanted 2 was officially announced I wrote, “I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to bring back Angelina Jolie for the sequel.” Not that James McAvoy wasn’t solid, but apart from the special effects Jolie was the biggest draw for last summer’s surprise hit. Unfortunately, her super spy character took a super curved bullet through her temple at the end of the original.
It doesn’t seem to bother director Timur Bekmambetov, who confirmed to Russian news organization Ria Novosti that Jolie will be returning for the sequel. “As for the character played by Konstantin Khabenskiy [The Exterminator], we’ll think about it. We might possibly resurrect him as well.”
I suppose it helps Bekmambetov hired Evan Spiliotopoulos, co-writer of Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, to resurrect Fox. It helps to have a mind for fantasy when her character’s mind has a hole in it. Maybe Jolie will...
It doesn’t seem to bother director Timur Bekmambetov, who confirmed to Russian news organization Ria Novosti that Jolie will be returning for the sequel. “As for the character played by Konstantin Khabenskiy [The Exterminator], we’ll think about it. We might possibly resurrect him as well.”
I suppose it helps Bekmambetov hired Evan Spiliotopoulos, co-writer of Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, to resurrect Fox. It helps to have a mind for fantasy when her character’s mind has a hole in it. Maybe Jolie will...
- 6/15/2009
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Angelina Jolie'S character from the Wanted comic book adaptation will be resurrected for the sequel, says director Timur Bekmambetov.
The Russian filmmaker says that pre-production on Wanted 2 will begin next month. The first film, released last year, was very loosely based on the comic book by Scottish writer Mark Millar.
It starred James McAvoy as an office worker recruited by Jolie's character into a league of super-assassins whose victims were chosen by a mystical Loom of Fate.
Bekmambetov spoke to Russian news site Ria Novosti about Wanted 2, saying: "In July we will start preparation for the film. I think in the late autumn or winter shooting will be performed. The shooting will take place in America, India and Russia."
He promised that in the sequel he would bring back Angelina Jolie's character Fox, who died at the end of the first movie. In addition, new characters will be introduced.
The Russian filmmaker says that pre-production on Wanted 2 will begin next month. The first film, released last year, was very loosely based on the comic book by Scottish writer Mark Millar.
It starred James McAvoy as an office worker recruited by Jolie's character into a league of super-assassins whose victims were chosen by a mystical Loom of Fate.
Bekmambetov spoke to Russian news site Ria Novosti about Wanted 2, saying: "In July we will start preparation for the film. I think in the late autumn or winter shooting will be performed. The shooting will take place in America, India and Russia."
He promised that in the sequel he would bring back Angelina Jolie's character Fox, who died at the end of the first movie. In addition, new characters will be introduced.
- 6/15/2009
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Yes, we know how she ended up at the end of Wanted (no spoilers here, check it out for yourself) but reports are coming in that wunderkind Russian director Timur Bekmabetov is planning to bring Angelina Jolie back for Wanted 2.The source of the story is here, but those of you who don't read Russian can click here for an English precis. Shooting is apparently to take place in the Us, India and Russia, with official preparation beginning next month. No mention of James McAvoy, but it sounds like there might be sequel hope for Konstantin Khabensky, who played the first film's Exterminator, and also appeared in Bekmabetov's Night Watch and Day Watch.Wanted was a very loose adaptation of an indie comic by Mark Millar (the comic is about a secret cabal set up to assassinate supervillains, and the film... isn't). There have been mutterings about a sequel since the release of the original.
- 6/15/2009
- EmpireOnline
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