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A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast with Ally Pitts — 101 episodes
POLISH CINEMA NEWS! Celebrating Andrzej Wajda’s centenary
NOIRVEMBER SPECIAL: Not Russian, a novel by Mikhail Shevelev
NEWS: Battleship Potemkin docks in The Light cinemas on Sun 26th Oct + more silent film screening news!
NEWS! Ally Pitts introduces Milton Keynes Gallery screening of Battleship Potemkin
NEWSFLASH: Battleship Potemkin centenary screenings & Blu-ray release
NEWS: Ally Pitts curates Jane Austen 250th anniversary film season! Plus Whit Stillman tour, and podcast recommendations!
Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai; 1959)
NEWS: Tarkovsky’s Mirror in Oxford, PLUS Soviet cinema at PCC, and Hugo Max silent film screening tour
NEWS: Come and See (Elem Klimov; 1985) 40th anniversary and Antifa on Screen season at the UPP in Oxford
WORLD SHAKESPEARE DAY BONUS: Boris Pasternak, Grand Theft Hamlet, Andrei Tarkovsky, Richard. E. Grant, the 'other' Stratford, and the Bard
INTERVIEW: Matthew Chadourne of the Oxford Comedy Festival
FEED TAKEOVER: Flow (Gints Zilbalodis; 2024) with Kristaps Andrejsons of The Eastern Border
NEWS: Kinoteka Polish Film Festival 2025
NEWS: Soviet Silent Comedies at Slapstick Festival 2025 in Bristol PLUS podcast recommendations
2024 highlights & 2025 plans
INTERVIEW: Juliet Merchant, film composer & musician
NEWS: Two Soviet silent film screenings in Nov '24
100 years of Aelita: Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov; 1924) [classic episode re-release with new intro, outro and music]
Alexandra Exter, Aelita, and Modernist Art in Ukraine 1900-1930
NEWS: Béla Tarr & Tarkovskian echoes
Nostalgia AKA Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky; 1983)
NEWS: Man with a Movie Camera, 60 years of Mikhail Kalatozov’s I am Cuba, and Oxford Meet-ups
EVENT: The Saint Audio Podcast Festival, 23-26 May '24 in Oxford, UK!
FEED TAKEOVER: Ally guests on Projection Booth episode on Amphibian Man (Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadi Kazansky; 1961)
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Alissa Timoshkina in conversation with Catriona Kelly on Russian Food Since 1800
Ally's top 5 first-time watches of 2023
NEWSFLASH: Tchaikovsky’s Wife (Kirill Serebrennikov; 2023) in UK cinemas Jan-Mar ’24
Some sad news
MINI-REVIEW: Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko; 2021)
FEED TAKEOVER: Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch; 1939) with Ally Pitts - All the Best Lines episode
BONUS EPISODE: Ally’s Klassiki Recommendations
PODCAST 5th ANNIVERSARY BONUS SHOW: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein; 1925) Classic Schmassic episode with Ally Pitts
FEED TAKEOVER! SRB Podcast episode: The Stalinist Film Industry
Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR podcast
The Lord Eagle (Eduard Novikov; 2018)
#Reviews4Good at Podchaser.com
MOVIE NEWS: Petrov’s Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov; 2021) in UK Cinemas February 2022
Stump the Guesser! (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson; 2020)
New Year 2022 Bonus Episode
Carnival Night (Eldar Ryazanov; 1956)
The Lighthouse (AKA Mayak) (Maria Saakyan; 2006)
The Lighthouse (AKA Mayak) (Maria Saakyan; 2006) Second Run Blu-ray Twitter Competition Terms & Conditions
Announcement: Gentlemen Don't Get Caught, an R.E.M. Podcast, hosted by Ally Pitts & Lyn Seren
STATE FUNERAL (Sergei Loznitsa; 2019)
Gorky Park (Michael Apted; 1983)
Khraniteli (Soviet TV version of The Lord of the Rings)
Interview with Alex Christofi, author of Dostoevsky in Love
I am Twenty (Marlen Khutsiev; 1965)
A Russian Youth (Alexander Zolotukhin; 2019)
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov; 2019)
Interview with Kino Klassika season manager Olga Doletskaya
War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk; 1966)
Morozko [AKA Frosty AKA Father Frost AKA Jack Frost...] (Alexander Rou; 1964)
Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (Blake Harris; 2020)
Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov; 2018)
Brief Encounters (Kira Muratova; 1967)
Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan (Sergei Bodrov Sr; 2007)
Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov; 2002)
My Boyfriend is an Angel (Vera Storozheva; 2011)
Office Romance (Eldar Ryazanov; 1977)
Chapaev (Sergey & Georgy Vasilyev; 1934)
Anna (Luc Besson; 2019)
Sunflower (Vittorio De Sica; 1970)
How I Ended This Summer (Aleksei Popogrebsky; 2010)
Little Vera (Vasily Pichul; 1988)
Come and See (Elem Klimov; 1985)
Onegin (Martha Fiennes; 1999)
Attraction (Fyodor Bondarchuk; 2017)
Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov; 1960)
Welcome, Or No Trespassing (Elem Klimov, 1964)
The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov; 1957)
The Diamond Arm (Leonid Gaidai; 1969)
War and Peace (King Vidor; 1956)
Prisoner of the Caucasus AKA Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Leonid Gaidai; 1966)
Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky; 1962)
Yolki AKA Six Degrees of Celebration (Timur Bekmambetov et al.; 2010)
Mermaid (Anna Melikyan; 2007)
Ivan the Terrible: Part I (Sergei Eisenstein; 1944)
Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison; 1971)
The White Sun of the Desert (Vladimir Motyl; 1970)
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession (Leonid Gaidai; 1973)
Assa (Sergei Solovyov; 1987)
Brother (Alexei Balabanov; 1997)
Aelita, Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov; 1924)
Nicholas & Alexandra (Franklin J. Schaffner; 1971)
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksei German Sr; 1985)
The Sun (Alexander Sokurov; 2005)
The Barber of Siberia (Nikita Mikhalkov; 1998)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky; 1966)
Window to Paris (Yuri Mamin; 1993)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Igor Maslennikov; 1981)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg; 2007)
Through the Thorns to the Stars AKA To the Stars by Hard Ways (Richard Viktorov; 1980)
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci; 2017)
Loveless (Andrei Zvyagintsev; 2017)
Stalingrad (Fyodor Bondarchuk; 2013)
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd; 2016)
Tsar (Pavel Lungin; 2009)
The Irony of Fate (Eldar Ryazanov; 1975) Special Festive Episode!!!
Moscow does not Believe in Tears (Vladimir Menshov; 1980)
[Pilot Episode] Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky; 1979)