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Paradjanov Festival 2010

Paradjanov Festival 2010

Here's some genuinely thrilling news - March 2010 sees a major multimedia retrospective of the unclassifiable work of the great Armenian-born Soviet-persecuted filmmaker-artist Sergei Paradjanov, to be staged in multiple venues across London and Bristol. The website is already pretty comprehensive, even though it doesn't include full timetables [...]

Paradjanov on DVD: an update

About a year ago, I surveyed what were then all seven English-friendly DVD releases of the films of Sergo Paradjanov for Sight & Sound - concluding that, in general, the Russian Cinema Council (Russia) and Films Sans Frontières (French) releases were superior to the Kino ones (US). That opinion is almost certainly out of date, because Kino [...]