A Bracing Tale of Stalinist Terror

Earlier in his career, the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa alternated between documentaries and narrative features. The documentaries tended to be distanced, austere, observational; those that focused on the past (such as 2005’s Blockade, about the WWII siege of Leningrad, or 2019’s State Funeral, about the funeral of Stalin) were often built entirely from archival footage….

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American Cinematheque Podcast Sets Premiere Date, Guests (EXCLUSIVE)

American Cinematheque Podcast Sets Premiere Date, Guests (EXCLUSIVE)

EXCLUSIVE: The American Cinematheque is launching its own podcast, hosted and exec produced by the arts nonprofit’s Artistic Director Grant Moninger, which will premiere April 2. The American Cinematheque Podcast will be a weekly interview series celebrating American Cinematheque’s year-round film festival programming by inviting filmmakers to program the “film festival of their lives” through…

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