All Episodes
A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast with Ally Pitts — 105 episodes
Introduction: what to expect from the show
R.E.M.'s New Adventures in Hi-Fi + Ally introduces Sherlock Jr in Oxford Mon 27th July '26
R.E.M.'s Monster + Ally introduces Sherlock Jr in Oxford Mon 27th July '26
What's the Frequency, Buster? Keaton's silent classic returns to screens with an epic 1990s soundtrack
POLISH CINEMA! Celebrating Andrzej Wajda’s centenary in 2026
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
2025 Battleship Potemkin centenary & Blu-ray release
Ally Pitts' Jane Austen 250th anniversary film season in 2025 at the UPP in Oxford
Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai; 1959)
Ally Pitts introduces Tarkovsky’s Mirror in Oxford
2025: Come and See (Elem Klimov; 1985) 40th anniversary + 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
Latvian journalist Kristaps Andrejsons on hit animation Flow (Gints Zilbalodis; 2024) [FEED TAKEOVER]
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
Béla Tarr & Tarkovskian echoes [The 2024 BFI Tarr retrospective]
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!
Amphibian Man (Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadi Kazansky; 1961) Ally guests on The Projection Booth [FEED TAKEOVER]
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)
Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch; 1939) Ally Pitts guests on All the Best Lines [FEED TAKEOVER]
BONUS EPISODE: Ally’s Klassiki Recommendations
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein; 1925) Classic Schmassic episode with Ally Pitts [PODCAST 5th ANNIVERSARY BONUS SHOW]
The Stalinist Film Industry [Eurasian Knot FEED TAKEOVER]
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)