- Born
- Birth nameAnton Vladimirovich Dolin
- Anton Dolin is a Russian film critic, journalist, radio host and podcaster. He is the regular film reviewer for show Radio Dolin (2021).
Anton Dolin graduated from the Department of Philology at the Moscow State University as a teacher of Russian literature. In 2000, he graduated from the doctoral program of Gorky Institute of World Literature, writing a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences on "The history of the Soviet fairy-tale novel," which he did not end up defending.
He has worked as a host for the Echo of Moscow from 1997 to 2003 and for Radio Mayak from 2007 to 2019. He has also worked for such newspapers and magazines as Moskovskiye Novosti (2006-2007), Expert (2006-2013), The New Times (2008-2017), Vedomosti (2011-2014), Gazeta (2012-2013), Afisha (2013-2017), and Meduza (since 2017). He was the regular film reviewer of the Vesti FM from 2010 to 2019, and then of the Silver Rain Radio. Anton Dolin writes books and received multiple awards from the Russian Guild of Film Scholars and Critics.
From 2012 to 2020 he was a film reviewer for the popular late-night television show Evening Urgant (2012). In 2020, he was fired from Channel One for publishing a negative review on Union of Salvation (2019) for Meduza.
Since 2001 he has written for the Iskusstvo Kino magazine and from 2017 to 2022 was the chief editor.
In 2021 he started his own YouTube channel Radio Dolin (2021), supported by Meduza. He is the co-host of Galina Yuzefovich's podcast Book bazaar since 2021.- IMDb Mini Biography By: DK
- SpouseNataliya Khlyustova(? - present) (2 children)
- Parents
- He knows how to interest the audience with his discussions about any movie, from bad to good.
- Frequent member of the jury grid of the online magazine ScreenDaily.
- His favorite musicians are The Beatles.
- According to a Sight & Sound magazine poll for 2012, his ten greatest films are: Eraserhead (1977), The Idiots (1998), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Mirror (1975), Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (1985), Ordet (1955), The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Psycho (1960), The Seventh Seal (1957) and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924).
- According to a BBC Culture poll for 2018, his ten greatest foreign-language films are: 1. Mirror (1975), 2. Ordet (1955), 3. Fanny and Alexander (1982), 4. The Idiots (1998), 5. Tokyo Story (1953), 6. Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (1985), 7. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), 8. Kikujiro (1999), 9. Pierrot the Fool (1965) and 10. La Dolce Vita (1960).
- According to a BBC Culture poll for 2019, his ten greatest films directed by women are: 1. The Asthenic Syndrome (1989), 2. Daisies (1966), 3. The Wonders (2014), 4. The Ascent (1977), 5. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), 6. Getting to Know the Big, Wide World (1980), 7. The Night Porter (1974), 8. On Body and Soul (2017), 9. Italian for Beginners (2000) and 10. Toni Erdmann (2016).
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