JULY 11: Russian Sci-fi Special Season - 7:00pm
Cosmic Voyage
(Vasili Zhuravlyov) 1936 USSR 70 mins
Cosmic Voyage
(Vasili Zhuravlyov) 1936 USSR 70 mins
An effects-filled story of Pavel, a renegade space traveller & his voyage to the moon offers a startlingly realistic technological prophesy. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a seminal space-travel theoretician, served as the production's science consultant & drew more than 30 detailed blueprints for the "rocketplane" featured in the film. There may be a rocket named after Stalin, but the film still reeks of anti-doctrinal individualism, doubtlessly accounting for Ukrainian-born Zhuravlyov's sporadic post-Cosmic Voyage output. Imported 35mm print.
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JULY 11: Russian Sci-fi Special Season - 8:20pm
Ruslan & Ludmilla
(Aleksandr Ptushko) 1972 USSR 159 mins
Ruslan & Ludmilla
(Aleksandr Ptushko) 1972 USSR 159 mins
Probably fantasy director Ptushko's greatest masterpiece, an epic reverie packed with surreal, grotesque characters & awe-inspiring set pieces such as a midget's shimmering crystal palace & tormented figures chained inside a cavern. Based on a poem by Pushkin, Ptushko's final film follows the epic adventures of Ruslan as he struggles to recover his feisty, resourceful bride kidnapped on their wedding night by an impish sorcerer. Imported 35mm print.
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