Horror film aficionados can wrap themselves in the dark night of a festival this weekend as a gathering of foreign stars comes to Moscow for the Kaplya, or Drop, horror film festival aimed at boosting the local fright...

... documentary aired Wednesday night on state-controlled Channel One. Distinguished opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov excoriated the government in a documentary aired Wednesday night on state-controlled Channel One. But the overall context of the film appeared to leave little doubt that nothing would ever make him happy. Giving a voice to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s critics on the country’s most popular television channel is unusual, but the show made Kasyanov and others look like...

"The Admirer," a new movie that focuses on Anton Chekhov, is a subtle, quiet, though remarkably tense film about the gray areas of life. Perhaps I am too close to today's topic to be believed. You are hereby forewarned that I attended the premiere of Vitaly Melnikov's new movie "The Admirer" in St. Petersburg last week not as a reporter for...

Pure evil reigns in Alexander Sokurov's new film "Faust," which won the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival and starts screening in Russian movie theaters on Feb. 9. Pure evil reigns in Alexander Sokurov's new film "Faust," which...

In 2006, an exposé about British "spy stones" in a film by pro-Kremlin television journalist Arkady Mamontov set off a media storm. The story was so advantageous for the Kremlin that many commentators suspected that the device was not real and that the whole story was...

... during which psychoanalysis was invented through the efforts of Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and a Russian Jewish woman named Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), who began as a patient and became a colleague. Karo Film Atrium Thurs. to Wed. at 4:45 and 11 p.m. Dubbed. Oktyabr Thurs. to Wed. at 12:30, 4:30 and 8:20 p.m. Dubbed. Pioner Thurs. at 11:05 a.m. and 11:40 p.m., Fri. at 1:50 and 11:50 p.m., Sat. at 7:20 p.m., Sun. at 4:30 p.m., Mon. at 9 p.m., Tues. at...

... the same. The unchanging store belonging to two aging women is constructed of drab, cold stone and wood. Most everyone's clothing is the sum of layers upon layers of warming cloths. Also as in the Perm production, snippets of Robert Flaherty's classic film "Man of Aran" are projected on the theater's back wall. This famous film about the hard life and tough people of Ireland's Aran Islands provides a backdrop for McDonagh's play. The lives of the people of Inishmaan are thrown into chaos...

Irina Prokhorova, editor of the journal New Literary Review and sister of businessman and presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov will represent her brother in a televised debate with Nikita Mikhalkov, film director and backer of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. Irina Prokhorova, editor of the journal New Literary Review and sister of businessman and presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov will represent her brother in a televised debate with...

... sometimes shortened to Dunya, is 14 years younger than Chubais, who is 56. She is the co-host along with novelist Tatyana Tolstaya of "School for Scandal," where they interview people in an enjoyably bitchy way. She recently directed her first film called "Two Days," about a provincial museum worker and a top government official falling in love despite their ideological differences. In that film, the official was played by perma-tanned actor Fyodor Bondarchuk, but many people have...

... Andrei Merzlikin, Kristina Kuzmina and Tatyana Cherkasova. Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya Thurs. to Wed. at 5 p.m. Faust (2011): The final installment of Alexander Sokurov’s psychological tetralogy about human nature won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. 35MM Thurs. at noon and 7 p.m., Fri. at 9:20 p.m., Sat. at 5:30 and 10:20 p.m., Sun. at 11:15 a.m. and 8 p.m., Mon. at 9 p.m., Tues. at 4:30 p.m., Wed. at 4:40 p.m. In German; Russian subtitles. Oktyabr Thurs. to Wed. at 1:10, 6 and 10:50...

Opposition politicians Gennady Gudkov and Vladimir Ryzhkov said Wednesday that they would seek criminal charges against those responsible for secretly filming them discussing plans for the upcoming protest rally and posting it on the Internet in an apparent bid to discredit them. Opposition politicians Gennady Gudkov and Vladimir Ryzhkov said Wednesday that they would seek...

... videos shot at polling stations were uploaded to YouTube, but Markin's announcement was short on specifics. It was unclear whether he was referring to the popular international video hosting site, which is based in California. The examined videos were filmed in numerous parts of the country, including the Moscow, Kemerovo, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Tula, Krasnoyarsk and Saint Petersburg regions; the republics of Chuvashia and North Ossetia; and the cities of Moscow and Yekaterinburg, the investigators said...

... the prima donna does, she remains a herald of personal freedom, above any political barriers," Ogonyok magazine wrote. Perhaps the second-biggest star is quirky actor Konstantin Khabensky who starred in the hugely popular "Night Watch" films. Prokhorov also bagged film director Valery Todorovsky who made "Stilyagi," a catchy musical about Soviet hipsters, and Leonid Yarmolnik, an actor and judge on the long-running comedy show "KVN." The first meeting on Tuesday...

... program, or a personality, but money won the elections," Govorukhin said. "Then the elected governor during his entire term was working out the money that mafia clans spent on his campaign." Govorukhin — who is also a well-known film director — predicted that Putin would probably win in the first round of the election. "After we elect Putin, I will be able to return to work on my film with a clean conscience," Govorukhin said, referring to his work on the upcoming...

... these two acting duos. Smoktunovsky, who died in 1994, less than two years after the premiere of “A Possible Meeting,” was famous for his love of self. He once memorably claimed that his director Grigory Kozintsev in the legendary Russian film version of “Hamlet” was a no-count amateur and that whatever success the film had was thanks to his – Smoktunovsky’s – heroic performance of the title role. One of my favorite memories is of seeing Smoktunovsky enter...

... (soprano), Georgy Vasilyev (tenor) and the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater Orchestra in a concert of arias and duets. Dom Muzyki Svetlanov Hall. 7 p.m. Friday, February 10th Back in the U.S.S.R.: a concert of Soviet songs and film music. Helikon Opera on Arbat. 7 p.m. Helmut Volkl (organ) performs Mozart, Saint-Saens and Lefebure-Wely. St. Mary’s Cathedral. 8:15 p.m. Shostakovich String Quartet of Vladislav Igolinsky (violin), Sergei Pishchugin (violin), Yury Tkanov...

... the creative class. And the crowd from Bolotnaya [Ploshchad]" — the site of two recent opposition rallies — "unfortunately, does not create. That is in fact not the creative class," he said. The 75-year-old Govorkhin, also a film director, has made a number of controversial comments in recent weeks. In an interview published Friday in the newspaper Trud, he said corruption during Putin's stint as president was "normal" and "civilized." Transparency International...

... Medvedev, wrote about Houston on his Twitter feed Sunday. Houston was one of the world's best-selling artists from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. Her fame with Russian audiences came in 1992, after she played the leading part in the international hit film "The Bodyguard." She had planned to come to Russia in the early 2000s for a series of concerts, but cancelled citing instability in the country, the Itar-Tass state news agency reported at the time. Houston ultimately made her first Russian...

... translation from Russian into English - making multipart activities, ability to mobilize (obtained through contemporaneous studing in college and university) - experience in making kontent analysis of newspapers, films and programmes - scripting plays for children (during the period of study in the university) - writing stories, articles, playes </td></tr> </tbody> </table>

... would be brought in so that Assange could challenge them on their vision of world affairs and "their ideas on how to secure a brighter future." 
The names of the guests are still to be disclosed. 
The RT statement said Assange is filming the series from the location of his house arrest in Britain. He is currently fighting extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted on sex crimes allegations. United States officials are weighing possible charges linked to the leaks, the biggest disclosures...