The cinema / is a theatre

Time has no power over her. The world changes, fashion comes and goes, but Audrey Hepburn still remains the unattainable ideal of beauty, elegance and good t...

I am a former cinematographer, but I worked not in feature films, but in popular science cinema. Now I am 84 years old. Somewhere far away life is in full sw...

“For a good audiobook, the main thing is not the ability to “rumble sweetly in the lower register,” and not the ability to speak in different voices, but the...

“The arena where modern wrestlers meet is becoming more substantial and real from hour to hour. The internal struggle spills out everywhere. Individualism is...

“In our time, the question of the existence of theaters maintained at the expense of the state is again being raised. I believe that state theaters should ex...

“We Russians are quite often and in some respects correctly compared to the Italians. One smart German, a cultural historian of the last century, says about ...

Compilers and authors of the preface: Katinka Dietrich van Wiering, Naum Kleiman

Translation from German: Irina Kynina, Naum Kleiman

Artist: Se...

Some theses from Andrei Angelov’s textbook “Practical Film Directing.” A national bestseller, and also a longseller of the 21st century. The first brilliant ...

Ahh, love. It can be a many splendored thing, but it can also lead to the pain of a broken heart. For those experiencing such a sad eventuality, turn to t...

Sometimes there's just nothing more absorbing than watching a movie that truly looks at life on the dark side, revealing those dark parts of human nature ...

The holidays—that time between Thanksgiving and New Year's—jam more "together" time together than any other time during the year. And all that being toget...

Wondering if the world is really going to hell in a handbasket? Then consider Roger Ebert's e-book original 32 Movies to Restore Your Faith in Humanity. R...