Hmm yes perfect

asdfghj Boyarsky just produced the most Boyarsky fucking thing...

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:07:47 +0200

asdfghj Boyarsky just produced the most Boyarsky fucking thing ever with a song about his beloved Saint-Petersburg with a clip about his beloved Saint-Petersburg and Boyarsky himself in his most Boyarsky self, so enjoy.

vampirbf:an unexpected crunch while eating huh. must be the cyanide capsule I keep in my tooth in...

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:50:16 +0200

vampirbf:

*an unexpected crunch while eating* huh. must be the cyanide capsule I keep in my tooth in case the Soviets start asking questions.

hey alex would u happen to know where i would be able to watch the russian sherlock holmes

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 15:10:38 +0200

here’s the old series with Vitaly Solomin and Vasily Livanov

and just in case you feel like it here’s a masterpost of the new 2013 series with a, unfortunately, very straight holmes (i won’t blame you if you skip the irene adler episode) but also a very neurodivergent holmes and the watson with the biggest dick energy of them all to this day, and i don’t say this lightly

oneoftheexactsciences: I believe in mathematics, logic,...

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 15:08:21 +0200

oneoftheexactsciences:

I believe in mathematics, logic, chemistry, in your eyes red of the cold and in your good heart; that’s it.

Sherlock Holmes (2013)

acdhw:Watson 😍 Holmes

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:14:26 +0200

acdhw:

Watson 😍 Holmes

damaged-penguin:The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr....

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:51:10 +0200

damaged-penguin:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, The King of Blackmail

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Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:40:35 +0200

marwoood:the inherent homoerotocism of soviet cinema

Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:59:40 +0200

marwoood:

the inherent homoerotocism of soviet cinema

Subtitles and everything to do with it

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 22:15:46 +0200

Subtitles and everything to do with it:

spiritcc:

spiritcc:

Updated my beloved subtitled shit page, aka just added links to the nrh episodes on google drive and also more drive links to the two recent movies I’ve subbed which were An Orphan of Kazan and Hanuma.

Finally got my ass up to also add links to War and Peace and Gardemarines, plus I’ve updated subs for Hanuma and Come Take A Look At Me

Another small update, added the link to the revised soviet sh subs, plus links to the subbed “house that swift built” film

sanguinarysanguinity: acdhw: frougpepe: IM FUCKING CRYINHG The Murder of Lord Waterbrook I found...

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:40:42 +0200

sanguinarysanguinity:

acdhw:

frougpepe:

IM FUCKING CRYINHG

The Murder of Lord Waterbrook

I found it, and it’s hilarious 😂😂😂

@sanguinarysanguinity

Same video but with English subtitles, The Murder of Lord Waterbrook:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkgss7

And the sequel, Sherlock Holmes and the Little Black Men, in six parts, subtitled in English by @spiritcc‘s team:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl2qMS0C8Ms&list=PLTdpJpQ5RUKZhxi05quE5jxcLas2DMsOB&index=2

marwoood: | marwood watches soviet films | ‘Haven’t you read...

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:47:25 +0200

marwoood:

| marwood watches soviet films |

‘Haven’t you read Shakespeare?’
‘I only read specialised literature.’
‘You are a great man, sir; unspoiled by culture.’

The House That Swift Built (1982) Dir. Mark Zakharov

MY DUDES I have actually dug up the subtitles for this film and slapped them onto their respective episodes, so if you want yall can actually check the movie out on google drive:

Episode one

Episode two

This film is like this missing piece in the so-called pentalogy of Zakharov’s works that is, as per usual, in his typical spirit. Except maybe the fact that this one is just too bizarre to make sense of, it’s somewhat forgotten compared to its brethren. But definitely deserves a watch just because it’s Zakharov.

Vitasha

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:56:21 +0200

spiritcc:

Here are some extracts from Vasily Livanov’s book, where one chapter is dedicated to his friend Vitaly Solomin. This is the book where that famous quote also comes from.

Enjoy the pain:

“It happens so that when someone passes away, we customarily treat his actions and related events as the thing of the past. But everything about my beloved closest friend and partner Vitaly Solomin has become a part of my way of life, my conscience, so for me it will become the thing of the past only when I pass away too.
We used to call him Vitasha - that’s how his wife addressed him. Vitaly Solomin always gave various interviews to the press and on TV throughout years of our friendship. These interviews are in the papers, journals, VHS - I keep most of them in my house. Vitasha spoke about me quite often, about our relations and the shared work that was born from our happy friendship. But let him speak himself:

“Actually, Vasily Borisovich and I got acquainted during auditions. He’s an open person, we became close friends. Livanov is a man of big taste and I trust him. It’s rare to find a person who can give precise comments on your work: not just “I like/don’t like it”, any person can do that…But there are few who say exactly why they did or didn’t like a particular work. It’s very important to me. With Livanov’s great memory and taste, you can consult him on many topics. I have an impression that he knows and remembers everything.“

In our first days of acquaintance, I gifted Vitasha the "Youth” journal with “My Beloved Clown” in it [a story written by Livanov]. Soon Solomin gave me his actor booklet with a signature: “Dear Vasya! I’m glad I met you. I’ve learnt about you the most from your beautiful story. Yours respectfully. Vitaly. 14/VII, year 79.”

The filming of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson was all up and running when Vitasha came up to me with a sudden proposition: to bring my story he came to love on stage. “And I will set it up and play the main role”, he promised. It came to life: I wrote it out, he staged the play where he played Sergey Sinitsyn the clown. That’s what he said about our work: “The play feels so much like Livanov. He is a person that did not part with his childhood. Although, that edgy character - it can do many things.”

It was a great pleasure for me to make Vitasha laugh.
Usually concentrated and seemingly composed, he would ignite suddenly, so to say, blind me with his charming smile, and if he laughed, then he laughed with all his strength, to tears, contagiously. After the play’s premiere I called him:
“There’s a big armchair in your house, right?”
“Well, yes”, Vitasha replied, “Why?”
“Can you bring it to the Malyi Theatre this moment? I really need it.”
“…Why?”
“Want to chill next to Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovky” [a classic Russian playwright]
It’s a pity we spoke on the phone and I couldn’t see how hard he laughed. In the memoirs “Vitaly Solomin”, his youngest daughter remembers: “Vasya Livanov could make dad laugh even when he was pretty grim. A sudden call - and I can already hear dad laugh”.

Our families were friends: our wives Lena and Masha were friends, both artists, our children were friends: his daughter Nastya and my son Boris. In 1984 we had additions to our families. Two weeks apart, we had our second son Nikolay, and Solomins had their second daughter Elizaveta. Common friends and even some good friends would ask us seriously, “Were you two in kahoots?”. Vitasha and I made a game out of this: we’d play all mysterious, hide our eyes, smile…To reply “Yes we were” were silly, try to assure them otherwise - even sillier. But the question somehow made us happy.
One time Vitasha gave an interview on TV and passed me a VHS of it. There were saved his words about our house that didn’t make it into the TV version: “You arrive to their house outside the city - Lenochka, Vasya’s wife, a very talented artist…she’d prepare food, and everything would be so tasty, in excess…and everything was so casual. One time we sat at the table and I didn’t say a word for the next five hours straight - I only laughed. Livanov knows so many stories - that a God’s gift - you can listen to them forever. Their house sucks you in so much when you get there: a story is invented, and something funny is told, and Vasya observes someone and makes a whole anecdote out of it…There are discussions about everything in the world…Not rumors! I would’ve spent days there - that’s some house”.

When we auditioned and I realised he will be Watson for sure (it was clear from his level of mastery), my first goal was to find a way to get close with him. You need to be friends in life to portray this mystery on screen called friendship. It appeared that we had many similarities. The most important was that we matched perfectly in our visions of art, likes and dislikes. It was the basis of our friendship, especially for Vitasha, he was very picky. We came to understand each other, we treasured each other. To me, the best evidence of our great relations expressed in our trips: we spent seven years travelling from Moscow to St.-Petersburg and back, more often in a single cab. And I noticed that we pulled off great silence. We didn’t have to talk constantly, not at all. That silence carried mutual support. Unity. It brought peace in the hurricane of work and life.
Vitasha always avoided injustice, familiarity, tactless behaviour. That’s why many considered him secretive. It’s not like he kept people at a distance on purpose. It happened naturally with people that he didn’t want to get close to, because of the aforementioned reasons. And the ones Solomin considered arrogant felt that. I know, there was such an opinion about him. It is really far away from the truth. If you wanted to break into his world, you had to share a lot of his views. Love art truly, realise what this job means - he used to think about it a lot. Obviously - success, that’s very important. But I think that the success on the outside didn’t mean as much for Solomin as his own personal value of what he did for art. That value was not pretentious, not pleasing for oneself: it was right. I think that he treated himself very cruelly. The bar was always very high. Movies, the stage alongside with acting, teaching that he loved with all his heart…It was beyond his abilities, in the last days he took on too much work. I don’t know, maybe it was a feeling: to manage to do everything now, when there’s time…An unstoppable desire to improve…The height of his directing work, not even mentioning acting, became “Krechinsky’s Wedding”. A superb and powerful control over the form, the highest performing level, all combined into one. He enchanted the entire play, and played Krechinsky as if it was his last role ever. That’s how it turned out in the end - the role was his last.
I’ve seen all of his plays, he used to invite me to final rehearsals, common rehearsals, university exams where he used to teach. He trusted me and valued my opinion. He considered me his lucky charm. He said: “Everything we do together comes out great”. He trusted me with all sorts of personal matters. We’d travel with our wives across Italy with the Malyi Theatre. Then go back home on a ship, in a cabin with no windows. You’d have to be really good friends in order not to start fighting when you’re travelling in a cabin such as that with four beds two stories high. I think you can test astronauts on their physiological comparability like this. They say perfect friendship doesn’t exist. But we had it. The most perfect one.

One tape was saved, filmed by one of our friends in my house on the day of my 60th birthday. Vitasha says a toast to me: “You burst into my life, very determined and forever! But then I realised that near me, there’s a person that I can entrust even my life to - theater life, and personal life for that matter…Also, you praise me more than others (laughs). I love your family. I want you to live long. Because I need you so much.”

And I need you too, so much, Vitasha. Always. Even when you are no longer here.”

killstalinmarryshostakovich: Гамлет / Hamlet | Grigori...

Wed, 14 Aug 2019 01:10:02 +0200

killstalinmarryshostakovich:

Гамлет / Hamlet | Grigori Kozintsev | Soviet Union | 1964

yall so you know tarkovsky’s another unwatchable film called the mirror that is like biographical...

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:49:56 +0200

yall so you know tarkovsky’s another unwatchable film called the mirror that is like biographical and everything, where tark’s dad was played by yank bc apparently there was an uncanny resemblance between the two.

i thought nah what could be so striking between them, googled tark’s dad and hOLY SHIT

even worse (?) that in the mirror, tark’s actual author avatar as a child was played by yank jr, and maybe as a kiddo there was not much to muse on, but now, seeing what tark was irl

and what yank jr grew up to be

like ok den, how the tables have turned after all

and EVEN WORSE, as i’ve already said here a few months ago, now YANK THE FUCKING THIRD, OG yank’s grandchild and obviously yank jr’s son, was cast as TARK HIMSELF in a film about him

making this entire situation just the weirdest shite. yank the third looks more like yank than his dad, and yet is cast to play a person who looked more like his dad rather than himself. while his dad did already play the person he’s about to portray. all while the grandad of the yanks played tark’s dad, with whom he does share a striking resemblance, and with whom yank the third shares that resemblance as well, but here he is playing not the dad but the son, who he does not look like, unlike his own dad…………….

cinemaru: Irina Kupchenko in The Hound of the...

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 18:24:29 +0200

cinemaru:

Irina Kupchenko in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)

spiritcc:JOHNLOCK AU: HOLMES IS A NEW STUDENT IN MR. WATSON’S...

Wed, 07 Aug 2019 23:29:57 +0200

spiritcc:

JOHNLOCK AU: HOLMES IS A NEW STUDENT IN MR. WATSON’S CLASS BUT LOVE DOESN’T BLOOM BECAUSE HOLMES IS A DUMBFUCK

Oh fuck yea look at em pics of Petrenko in a new stage play.

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:31:44 +0200

Oh fuck yea look at em pics of Petrenko in a new stage play.

Why is Boyarsky in advertising out of a sudden im crying here’s...

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:53:37 +0200

Why is Boyarsky in advertising out of a sudden im crying here’s him saying “hat” for 30 seconds

Russian Ark stream

Sat, 03 Aug 2019 21:48:53 +0200

spiritcc:

IM BACK MOTHERFUCKERS and so is The Soviet Movie Club™ with a very interesting film to consider.

The Russian Ark is not a standard movie per se- it’s a dramatised tour of Russian history and culture confined to the walls of St.-Petersburg’s Hermitage, an hour and a half movie filled with costumed dramas that was filmed in one fucking take.

That’s like the sole fact you need to know about this film to understand where all these awards and fame came from. A single fucking take with no montage to it whatsoever, of presumably everything Hermitage can demonstrate in a costumed drama/tour dedicated to Russian history. Sounds cool, alright.

So if you want to check this out, join us on rabbit today, Saturday 20th July, at 9pm GMT+1.

SO DID YALL KNOW THAT RABBIT DIED LIKE FOUR DAYS AGO AND WAS ABSORBED BY SOME OTHER APP THAT REQUIRES DOWNLOADING A DESKTOP VERSION OF IT TO DO LITERALLY ANYTHING OR WAS I GOING TO FIND THAT OUT MYSELF 5 MINUTES BEFORE THE SUPPOSED STREAM

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Tue, 30 Jul 2019 21:35:19 +0200

Hmm yes perfect

asdfghj Boyarsky just produced the most Boyarsky fucking thing...

vampirbf:*an unexpected crunch while eating* huh. must be the cyanide capsule I keep in my tooth in...

hey alex would u happen to know where i would be able to watch the russian sherlock holmes

oneoftheexactsciences: I believe in mathematics, logic,...

acdhw:Watson 😍 Holmes

damaged-penguin:The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr....

Photo

marwoood:the inherent homoerotocism of soviet cinema

Subtitles and everything to do with it

sanguinarysanguinity: acdhw: frougpepe: IM FUCKING CRYINHG The Murder of Lord Waterbrook I found...

marwoood: | marwood watches soviet films | ‘Haven’t you read...

Vitasha

killstalinmarryshostakovich: Гамлет / Hamlet | Grigori...

yall so you know tarkovsky’s another unwatchable film called the mirror that is like biographical...

cinemaru: Irina Kupchenko in The Hound of the...

spiritcc:JOHNLOCK AU: HOLMES IS A NEW STUDENT IN MR. WATSON’S...

Oh fuck yea look at em pics of Petrenko in a new stage play.

Why is Boyarsky in advertising out of a sudden im crying here’s...

Russian Ark stream

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vampirbf:an unexpected crunch while eating huh. must be the cyanide capsule I keep in my tooth in...