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- Handmade. by Catlow, Nikalas,film director.; Java Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Java Films in 2023.HANDMADE tells the inspiring story of Nukufilm, the oldest surviving stop-motion animation studio in the world, founded in 1957. During the Soviet era, Nukufilm was both financed and censored by the USSR government. In the 1980s, a new generation of animators took over. They had a more adventurous approach to stop-motion animation and were given the freedom to experiment with any style they wanted. Despite strict censorship regulations, they were able to conceal messages and layers in their animations without being detected. When Estonia regained independence in 1991, Nukufilm lost its distribution through Moscow, and the studio struggled to survive in a global market. However, they managed to learn the new market and become businessmen, surviving in the new free market economy. This debut film offers a glimpse into stop-motion animation production today, as well as rare archive material from stop-motion animation history, and is an ode to the perseverance and creativity of the Nukufilm studio.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Experimental films.; Arts.; Motion pictures.; Documentary films.; Artists.; Animated films.; Motion pictures--Production and direction.; Soviet Union.; Russia (Federation).; Motion pictures--History.;
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- Kin-dza-dza!. by Daneliya, Georgiy,film director.; Gabriadze, Levan,actor.; Lyubshin, Stanislav,actor.; Deaf Crocodile Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Levan Gabriadze, Stanislav LyubshinOriginally produced by Deaf Crocodile Films in 1986.Imagine Andrei Tarkovsky circa Solaris directing Douglas Adams’ "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" and you’ll come close to the existential weirdness of the wonderfully loopy Soviet-era sci-fi comedy KIN-DZA-DZA! Two average Muscovites – a plainspoken construction foreman (Stanislav Lyubshin) and a Georgian violin student (Levan Gabriadze) – encounter an odd homeless man on the street who asks, “Tell me the number of your planet in the Tentura?” In a flash, they’re teleported across the universe to the planet Pluke in the Kin-Dza-Dza galaxy – a Tatooine-like desert world whose inhabitants are hilariously noncommunicative (their main words are “ku” for good and “kyu” for very bad) and where common wooden matches are tremendously valuable. A deadpan, absurdist mixture of Kurt Vonnegut, Monty Python, Samuel Beckett and Jodorowsky’s never-made Dune where alien cultures are even more haphazard and WTF? than our own, KIN-DZA-DZA! is also a savage satire of bureaucratic idiocy and dysfunction no matter what political system you’re living under – or what planet you’re living on.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Science fiction.; Cult films.; Satire.; Motion pictures--Russia (Federation).; Outer space.; Science fiction films.;
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- An Editor's Anthology. by Pearlman, Karen,film director.; Ronin Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Ronin Films in 2016.An anthology of three award-winning films, these short documentaries are part of Dr Karen Pearlman’s ongoing research, which is interrogating the standard film histories and bringing to light the significant and overlooked contributions made by women editors, especially in early Soviet cinema.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Arts.; Motion pictures.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Artists.; Current affairs.; Motion pictures--Production and direction.; Soviet Union.; Russia (Federation).; Women artists.; Motion pictures--History.; Motion pictures--Soviet Union.;
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- Putin and the West: The Next Chapter. by Stirzaker, Tim,film director.; Catz, Caroline,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Caroline CatzOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2024.Russia’s war with Ukraine – told by the presidents and prime ministers who have grappled for a response to Putin’s shocking invasion.Filmed a year after Putin declared war on Ukraine, this is the inside story told by the key political players. From former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, they describe their critical meetings and summits while President Zelensky and his government reveal how they pleaded for more support after the initial attacks. As Putin digs in – upping the ante with nuclear threats and supported by allies in China and elsewhere – it becomes evident how Western support for Ukraine is under pressure like never before.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Political science.; Social sciences.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Current affairs.; Russia (Federation).; Ukraine.; Documentary television programs.;
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- Hunter killer [videorecording] / by Common(Musician),actor.; Butler, Gerard,1969-actor.; Keith, Don,1947-Firing point.; Marsh, Donovan,film director.; Oldman, Gary,actor.; Wallace, George,1950-Firing point.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Carter MacIntyre.An American submarine captain teams up with a group of Navy SEALs to rescue the kidnapped Russian president and save the world from an imminent catastrophe.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Wallace, George, 1950-; Russia (Federation). Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot; United States. Navy; United States. Navy. SEALs; Coups détat; Submarine captains; Submarine disasters;
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- Argylle / by Conway, Elly,author.;
"A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland. A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special. Enter Argylle, a troubled agent with a tarnished past who may just have the skills to take on one of the most powerful men in the world. If only he can save himself first"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Novels.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Antiquities; Intelligence officers; Russians;
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- Hunter killer [videorecording] / by Common(Musician),actor.; Butler, Gerard,1969-actor.; Keith, Don,1947-Firing point.; Marsh, Donovan,film director.; Oldman, Gary,actor.; Wallace, George,1950-Firing point.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Carter MacIntyre.An American submarine captain teams up with a group of Navy SEALs to rescue the kidnapped Russian president and save the world from an imminent catastrophe.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format ; Dolby TrueHD 5.1.- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Wallace, George, 1950-; Russia (Federation). Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot; United States. Navy; United States. Navy. SEALs; Coups détat; Submarine captains; Submarine disasters;
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- I.S.S. [videorecording] / by Asbæk, Pilou,1982-actor.; Cowperthwaite, Gabriela,film director.; DeBose, Ariana,1991-actor.; Gallagher, John,Jr.,1984-actor.; Liddell, Mickey,film producer.; Mashkova, Masha,1985-actor.; Messina, Chris,actor.; Ronin, Costa,1979-actor.; Shafir, Nick,screenwriter.; Shilaimon, Pete,film producer.; Bleecker Street (Firm),presenter.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.; LD Entertainment,presenter,production company.;
Director of photography, Nick Remy Matthews ; film editors, Colin Patton, Richard Mettler ; music by Anne Nikitin.Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, John Gallagher Jr., Masha Mashkova, Costa Ronin, Pilou Asbæk.Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling from this, the astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for some violence and language.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Science fiction films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; International Space Station; Astronauts; Astronauts; Space stations; War;
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- Leviathan [videorecording] / by Serebryakov, Aleksey.; Madyanov, Roman.; Lyadova, Elena.; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Aleksey Serebryakov, Roman Madyanov, Elena Lyadova.Nikolay is in danger of losing his home. His pleas to the corrupt mayor of this small Russian village fall on deaf ears. The police and the church are all on the mayor's side. Even his wife ends up betraying him. Desperate, he turns to an old friend he served with in the army. But this friend brings even more trouble into Nikolay's life. Will he be able to overcome all these obstacles and save his home?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Political corruption; Fishing villages; Mayors; Foreign films; Motion pictures, Russian.; Feature films.;
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- Putin's witesses [videorecording] / by Mansky, Vitaly,film distributor.; Icarus Films Home Video,film distributor.;
The documentary serves as a fascinating look at Putin in the earliest days of his presidency, when the seeds of his authoritarianism were already being sown. It also raises difficult questions about the role of Mansky himself. As a filmmaker who witnessed and, in some cases, shaped these events, is he in some way complicit?E.DVD.- Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Foreign films.; Historical films.; Motion pictures, Russian.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; Authoritarianism; Presidents;
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