Georgiy Daneliya, a director of many iconic Soviet and Russian films, died Thursday in Moscow, Russian news agency Tass reported, quoting his family. He was 88.
In February, Daneliya was hospitalized for pneumonia and remained in serious condition. He died of heart failure.
Daneliya was born in Tiflis, Georgia, in 1930, and his family moved to Moscow a year later. He originally was trained as an architect, but subsequently attended the Higher Courses for Film Directors in Moscow.
Daneliya's feature debut, Seryozha, won the Crystal Globe, the main prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, in 1960. He went ...
In February, Daneliya was hospitalized for pneumonia and remained in serious condition. He died of heart failure.
Daneliya was born in Tiflis, Georgia, in 1930, and his family moved to Moscow a year later. He originally was trained as an architect, but subsequently attended the Higher Courses for Film Directors in Moscow.
Daneliya's feature debut, Seryozha, won the Crystal Globe, the main prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, in 1960. He went ...
Georgiy Daneliya, a director of many iconic Soviet and Russian films, died Thursday in Moscow, Russian news agency Tass reported, quoting his family. He was 88.
In February, Daneliya was hospitalized for pneumonia and remained in serious condition. He died of heart failure.
Daneliya was born in Tiflis, Georgia, in 1930, and his family moved to Moscow a year later. He originally was trained as an architect, but subsequently attended the Higher Courses for Film Directors in Moscow.
Daneliya's feature debut, Seryozha, won the Crystal Globe, the main prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, in 1960. He went ...
In February, Daneliya was hospitalized for pneumonia and remained in serious condition. He died of heart failure.
Daneliya was born in Tiflis, Georgia, in 1930, and his family moved to Moscow a year later. He originally was trained as an architect, but subsequently attended the Higher Courses for Film Directors in Moscow.
Daneliya's feature debut, Seryozha, won the Crystal Globe, the main prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, in 1960. He went ...
SeryozhaAlong with Eldar Ryazanov and Leonid Gaidai, Georgiy Daneliya, now 88, is one of the greatest comic filmmakers of the Soviet era. He describes his own genre as “sad comedy,”expertly balancing a warmhearted approach to characterization with a certain melancholy undertow. Yet, with his work never distributed outside of the Eastern Bloc, except for Finland, and in the case of Kin-dza-dza! (1986), Japan, he is more deserving than any other Soviet director of critical reappraisal. Soviet comedies in general, and Daneliya's comedies in particular, are often characterized by a certain naïveté, yet a simplicity in approach shouldn’t be confused with simple-mindedness. Instead, like in an Yasujiro Ozu movie, this plainness becomes a style in itself, a way of strengthening a story though seeming to do less. Slyly subverting the demands of a state-run studio system, this naïve approach allowed Daneliya's complex characterizations to nest themselves matryoshka doll-like inside superficially straightforward stories.
- 4/2/2019
- MUBI
Following previous announcements of their film lineup, the Fantasia International Film Festival has released their full lineup of movies to be shown at the 18th Annual festival, starting July 17.
New additions to the lineup include 2014 Cannes Selection When Animals Dream, directed by Jonas Alexander Amby and the return of Fantasia’s showcase of animated films, Axis.
Tickets for the festival go on sale starting July 16, and the festival runs through August 5.
View the whole press release of additional announcements below:
Fantasia Celebrates Its 18th Birthday
With Over 160 Feature Films Montreal, Thursday July 10, 2014 – 2014 is the year that Fantasia turns 18. We can’t believe it either. Fantasia’s 18th birthday means over 160 features and something in the neighborhood of 300 shorts, many being shown for the first time on this continent, a good number screening here for the first time anywhere in the world.In addition to being stacked with a multitude of breathtaking debut filmmaker discoveries,...
New additions to the lineup include 2014 Cannes Selection When Animals Dream, directed by Jonas Alexander Amby and the return of Fantasia’s showcase of animated films, Axis.
Tickets for the festival go on sale starting July 16, and the festival runs through August 5.
View the whole press release of additional announcements below:
Fantasia Celebrates Its 18th Birthday
With Over 160 Feature Films Montreal, Thursday July 10, 2014 – 2014 is the year that Fantasia turns 18. We can’t believe it either. Fantasia’s 18th birthday means over 160 features and something in the neighborhood of 300 shorts, many being shown for the first time on this continent, a good number screening here for the first time anywhere in the world.In addition to being stacked with a multitude of breathtaking debut filmmaker discoveries,...
- 7/10/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
★★★☆☆In 1986, Georgiy Daneliya made Kin-dza-dza, a highly celebrated science fiction satire of the Soviet Union. A live-action, steam punk-infused parable that reflected the altering political landscape, Daneliya's tale of an ethnically discriminative alien world highlighted the growing discourse between the Ussr and Chechnya. Now, Daneliya has revived his sardonic satire of the Soviet state as an animated feature - now titled Koo! Kin-dza-dza - that transfers the same sociopolitical anxieties into Putin's Russia. We begin with Renowned Cellist Vladimir Chizhov and his wayward teenage nephew Tolik encounter a barefooted, pyjama sporting Martian in the middle of a snowy Moscow street.
- 6/26/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, starring Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, took home Asia Pacific Screen awards 2013 in two major categories: Best Screenplay and Jury Grand Prize. The seventh annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards were announced in Brisbane on Thursday.
The Lunchbox shared the Jury Grand Prize with Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s Television (Bangladesh), the first Bangladeshi film to win an Asia Pacific Screen award.
Palestinian film Omar directed by Hany Abu-Assad has won the Best Feature Film Award. Anthony Chen won Achievement in Directing for his debut feature film Ilo, Ilo.
International Jury President Shyam Benegal said he was very impressed with the quality of nominee films.
“More than half of the world’s films originate from the Asia Pacific region, which makes the Apsa award in Brisbane among the more important competitive film awards in the world,” he said.
Full List of Awards:
Best Feature Film...
The Lunchbox shared the Jury Grand Prize with Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s Television (Bangladesh), the first Bangladeshi film to win an Asia Pacific Screen award.
Palestinian film Omar directed by Hany Abu-Assad has won the Best Feature Film Award. Anthony Chen won Achievement in Directing for his debut feature film Ilo, Ilo.
International Jury President Shyam Benegal said he was very impressed with the quality of nominee films.
“More than half of the world’s films originate from the Asia Pacific region, which makes the Apsa award in Brisbane among the more important competitive film awards in the world,” he said.
Full List of Awards:
Best Feature Film...
- 12/12/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
At this point I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like this is going to be a feature length film. I'm still waiting for details from our friend D'mooN over at Opium (who gave us the heads up) to provide further details, but I can tell you that the 50 stills and pieces of concept art we have are nothing short of stunning, sort of a mixture of scifi, cyberpunk, steampunk, and Shel Silverstein (see Where the Sidewalk Ends). From what I can gather, it's possibly post apocalyptic and is about the slums of the galaxy.
Summary of the original film:
Two humans (Dyadya Vova and Skripach) accidentally found themselves on another planet after pushing the wrong button on the strange device in the hand of an odd looking alien. Planet "Plyuk" in the galaxy "Kin-Dza-Dza" looks like a desert. All the aliens look exactly like humans, and can understand Russian, because they can read thoughts,...
Summary of the original film:
Two humans (Dyadya Vova and Skripach) accidentally found themselves on another planet after pushing the wrong button on the strange device in the hand of an odd looking alien. Planet "Plyuk" in the galaxy "Kin-Dza-Dza" looks like a desert. All the aliens look exactly like humans, and can understand Russian, because they can read thoughts,...
- 6/27/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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