Director Oleg Sentsov is a Hostage of Putin Regime
The World Cup in Russia has brought attention to injustices in the film world. Milos Stehlik discusses the case of a director imprisoned since 2014 under false pretenses in Russia. In a recent interview Facets founder and artistic director Milos Stehlik speaks with three preeminent figures of the film world from across Eastern Europe. On WEBZ’s Worldview hear from Askold Kurov a Russian documentary filmmaker who made a documentary about Sentsov’s sentencing, The Trial: The State of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov (2017), Agnieszka Holland, chair of the European Film Academy and filmmaker herself, and finally Andriy Khalpakhchi, the director of the Molodist Film Festival in Kiev, Ukraine. https://youtu.be/GFohGYNapj0 Oleg Sentsov is a
The Screen is a Monolith: Understanding 50 Years of 2001
To celebrate 50 years of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, we take a look at two forgotten films by Pavel Klushantsev. These films show a clear influence on the visuals and special effects which made 2001: A Space Odyssey the groundbreaking work we know which so brilliantly stands the test of time. https://youtu.be/sZ7EOckICDo Act 1: Dawn of Man/The Space Race Scene 1: Monolith Arrives/Sputnik The predominant vision of Outer Space today is of a place that is tangible and real and therefore explorable. That’s something which only became possible in the past 60 years. Because of that tangible reality, in Outer Space physics and engineering reign supreme