#Boris barnet

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four late stalinist films, four red tinted cuts between scenes; a cinema industry drenched in blood

(1) Boris Barnet, {1950} Щедрое лето (Bountiful Summer) (2) Vladimir Petrov, {1951} Спортивная честь (Sporting Honour) (3) Nikolay Lebedev, {1952} Навстречу жизни (The Encounter of a Lifetime) (4) Vsevolod Pudovkin, {1953} Возвращение Василия Бортникова (The Return of Vasili Bortnikov)

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Boris Barnet, June 18, 1902 – January 8, 1965.

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)

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Dark Is the Night (Boris Barnet, 1945)

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Shchedroe leto, Boris Barnet, 1951

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Miss Mend Directed by Boris Barnet and Fedor Otsep. With Natalia Glan, Boris Barnet. USSR, 1926, 35mm, black & white, silent, 240 min. English electronic subtitles.

This three-part serial "fuses elements of Fairbanks, Feuillade and Lang with brilliant location shooting in city and countryside... The film's prolific visual invention and amusingly convoluted plotting take in a Nosferatu-like body in a coffin, mysterious encounters in a chateau, kidnappings on a jetty, and culminates in an extended, accelerating pursuit involving cars and horses. Barnet exploits all the serial conventions and improves on them, winding down to a charming, poetic epilogue." – John Gillett, National Film Theatre

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Slapstick 2025: for the love of silent comedy

It’s supposed to be big mystery: what do women want from a romantic partner? But there is no mystery at all. GSOH every time. That’s good sense of humour, of course. So if you’re in anyway romantically inclined, you’ll already be asking yourself: what is the FUNNIEST way I can celebrate Valentine’s Day next year. Not to brag, but I do have the solution. Bristol’s Slapstick Festival runs 12-16…

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Valéry Inkijinoff in Storm Over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1928)

Cast: Valéry Inkijinoff, I. Didintseff, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Victor Tsoppi, Fyodor Ivanov, V. Pro, Boris Barnet, Karl Gurniak, I. Inkizhinov, V. Belinskaya, Anel Sudakevich. Screenplay: Osip Brik, Ivan Novokshenov. Cinematography: Anatoli Golovnya. Art direction: M. Aronson, Sergei Kozlovsky.

The great silent Russian propaganda films depended heavily on two things the nascent Soviet Union had in abundance: faces and landscapes. This reliance on closeups and sweeping views of fields and plains sometimes resulted in a loss of narrative coherence, but put the emphasis on the people and resources that the Bolsheviks needed to exercise control over. Storm Over Asia is no exception, beginning with the windswept land and Asiatic faces of the Mongol peoples of eastern Russia, which at the time depicted in the film was still a vast battleground for the Bolsheviks and European forces. After establishing the location, the film focuses on Bair (Valéry Inkijinoff), a young hunter whose father sends him off to the bazaar to sell a silver fox pelt. In the vividly filmed bazaar, Bair is cheated by an unscrupulous European fur trader (Viktor Tsoppi), who might as well be wearing a label: bourgeois capitalist. Beaten by the henchmen for the trader, Bair escapes and joins a group of Soviet partisans fighting the occupiers. The occupation forces seem to be British, who were never a significant presence in this part of the Soviet Union, but the film is vague about such details. They manage to capture Bair, who is sent out with a soldier to be shot, but when they examine Bair's belongings they discover an ancient document indicating that he's a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. (The original title of the film, in Russian, was The Heir to Genghis Khan.) They find the wounded Bair, restore him to health, and set him up as the puppet ruler of a Mongolian state. In the end, Bair turns against the imperialists and the film concludes with a literal storm sweeping them away. It's a film full of great set-pieces, including a montage mockng the imperialists and their wives as they put on their finery and then are driven on a muddy road to meet the new Grand Lama. After an elaborate ceremony (actually filmed at a Tibetan Buddhist celebration) the lama turns out to be a small boy, not at all impressed with his visitors.   

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Favorite Films of 2023: Black & White Edition

This is Part I, and Films in Color will be Part II. The List:

Sabotage (1936, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

July Rain (1966, dir. Marlen Khutsyev)

Death Takes a Holiday (1934, dir. Mitchell Leisen)

In a Lonely Place (1950, dir. Nicholas Ray)

Now, Voyager (1942, dir. Irving Rapper)

Trouble in Paradise (1932, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)

Broken Lullaby (1932, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)

The House on Trubnaya Street (1928, dir. Boris Barnet)

Brief Encounter (1945, dir. David Lean)

some themes: cinematography, shenanigans, tragic love, women who are a menace, ernst lubitsch, cities, the 1930s, and men holding women close as another figure looks on - apparently

if anyone wants to post theirs and tag me you are so welcome to!

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90 Movies in 90 Days: By the Bluest of Seas (1936)

Every day until March 31, 2024 I will be watching and reviewing a movie that is 90 minutes or less. Title: By the Bluest of Seas Release Date: April 20, 1936 Director: Boris Barnet Production Company: Mezhrabpomfilm | Azerfilm Summary/Review: Two friends –  Yussuf (Lev Sverdlin) and Alyosha (Nikolai Kryuchkov) – are shipwrecked on the Caspian Sea.  Rescued by fishermen, they are brought to an…

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The sea waves

By the Bluest of Seas (У самого синего моря, Boris Barnet, 1936)

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Boris Barnet, {1951} Щедрое лето (Bountiful Summer)

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Seen in 2021:

The Girl with the Hat Box (Boris Barnet), 1927

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The Whistle Stop (1963)

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“Ti consiglio di abbandonare il cinema e correre, perché sarai torturato per il resto della tua vita, perché tu non fai cinema come gli altri e ti costerà caro”. Poi mi ha chiesto se sapevo bere. Dunque, il solo risultato dell’educazione spirituale di Barnet è questo, che so bere!!!

Otar Ioseliani

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Okraina, Boris Barnet, 1933