09/29/2006
Paid access archiveA Filmmaker's Life and Fate
Documentary film pioneer Frederick Wiseman was inspired by a Russian novel to make his first foray into fiction.
Wanted
Part of the meat goes to feed her family. Natalya makes her own kolbasa, smoked pork and pigs' trotters.
Goodbye, Hollywood
The new Images of America film festival offers a strong lineup of independent cinema from the United States.
Beats of the Balkans
Goran Bregovic, the top music star of the former Yugoslavia, brings his lively mix of rock 'n' roll and Slavic and Gypsy folk to Moscow.
Rising From the Rubble
Could a crumbling icon of Constructivist architecture be turned into an arts center?
Salon
In post-Soviet times, the search has begun for new ways to broaden the appeal of poetry.
Footloose
Irina Baronova's memoir is big on recall but thin on retrospection - a fitting approach for a hardworking ballerina who made an art out of never staying still.
Cheating Hearts
A new production sets ""Cosi fan tutte,"" Mozart's comic opera about fidelity, in a present-day military hospital.
High Hopes
Six Scottish art-school graduates start a quixotic project to build Tatlin's Tower, one piece at a time.
A Dynasty in Distress
A matriarch watches her family unravel in Sergei Zhenovach's adaptation of a 19th-century story.
Image
This image of an Uzbek school in the 1920s, taken by Soviet photojournalist Max Penson, is on display at Galeyev Gallery.
In the Spotlight
GQ readers gave the Person of the Year award to Fyodor Bondarchuk, while the Woman of the Year award went to the members of t.A.T.u. And yes, those are two distinct categories.
- A Filmmaker's Life and Fate
- Wanted
- Goodbye, Hollywood
- Beats of the Balkans
- Rising From the Rubble
- Salon
- Footloose
- Cheating Hearts
- High Hopes
- A Dynasty in Distress
- Image
- In the Spotlight
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