Last chance of the Moscow international.
Last chance of the Moscow international.
On Monday started the next Moscow international
Film festival. The reputation of this forum has for the last years fallen
To the lowest mark. But now the festival had an unexpected chance
To revive.
Festival-feat.
Radical critics name the Moscow festival a grief national,
Worried each odd year. For such estimation there are bases. Having ceased
To be semi-official status action, MMKF here ten years serves
Target for reproaches in the weak program and the million expenses which have been thrown out
On a wind of a facade for the sake of.
Journalists from the category obslugi, on the contrary, try to convince themselves and others
In that the Moscow festival - event of exclusive prestigiousness and
Gratefulness. Last achievement in this sort of service - thought, that supposedly
To abuse MMKF boringly and has gone (to difference, for example, from the Cannes festival).
Thereby on a new coil the Soviet patriotic tradition revives. And
Expression "as the Phoenix from ashes" becomes not simply journalistic stamp,
And really the fatal motto of our festival which now has been picked up and it
New leader Nikita Mikhalkov.
The festival indeed dies each time - because of accompanying it
To carrying out of bureaucratic procedures. That the necessary have been allocated
Means real preparation of the program also has begun, the Decision is necessary - and
For it wait before each festival.
Not very well, who makes the Decision - the CPSU Central Committee, as in ony years, or
The government, as now. It is important, that festival start to prepare, when
It is already impossible to collect the qualitative program consisting from the premieres. And
Each festival turns to a feat. Absence of the constant command and
Financings, and also the professional press-service - the main reasons
Noncompetitiveness MMKF on the international festival arena, where it
lish formally acts in a category "And".
Festival-memoirs.
For the first time the festival has passed in Moscow exactly forty years ago, becoming one of
Symbols of liberalisation of the Soviet mode. Thus the festival showed
Show quite wild: to most gorbachevskoj reorganisations visitors should
To sit at hotel "Russia" restaurant everyone at a table of the delegation with
Small state tag. However even these exotic details
Are recollected today more likely with nostalgia. Any Cannes did not know it
Feelings of suddenly swinging open borders. Through censorship barriers here
Viscontis, "the Apocalypse of ours made the way" Death in Venice "and"Ludwig"
Days "Coppolas," 2001: Space odisseja "the Bunk room,"Twentieth century"
Bertolucci and other masterpieces which in normal hire never went. In
dovideoepohu MMKF really was a window in the world.
To Moscow willingly there came the largest stars - Elizabeth Taylor, Sofi
Loren, Jean Mare... Deification of liberalism in festival annals remains
The decision of jury of 1963 headed by Grigory Chuhraem: the main prize was
Federiko Fellini for a film "8 1/2" is awarded.
More such disgrace did not repeat: curators from the Old area
Watched closely, that the list of prize-winners necessarily headed the Soviet
Film.
During an epoch of ideological frosts MMKF began to play the lesser role in
The international film life. But nevertheless by inertia here went - at least for
To look cinema of the third world. In 1987 the Moscow festival
Again the wind has drawn attention of the leading cinematographers who have scented "
Changes ". Then in foyer of the House of cinema it was possible to meet Milosha Forman,
Marcello Mastrojanni, Nastasju Kinski. But an epoch, when foreign
Cinematographers accepted crowds of the prisoners who have yearned on shows
"Socialist camp" also admired the overflowed halls and even stadiums,
Has quickly come to an end.
In 90th years MMKF tried to create to itself new image: from "review
Progressive cinema "it little by little turned to shows novorusskogo
Nju-bourgeois style with strained imitation of a holiday. Stars began to entice
Not pleasures of dialogue with public, and solid fees as it is accepted in
The Latin American countries. Magnificent hotels and receptions plus traditionally
Ugly Russian organisation have definitively frightened off decent people:
Very few people from them will risk now to arrive in the summer to Moscow.
There is, of course, a group of the companions betrayed to Russia in person Pierre
Rishara, Michael Jorka and Alain Delon, that, certainly, does by it honour. If
Them would join Gin Lollobridzhida and Beata Tyshkevich, the company
Veterans would be in full gathering.
Festival-review.
Meanwhile at a sight at the present program the person who has been not spoilt
Excessive quantity of film impressions, can test known enthusiasm.
Speech is not so much about competition - whatever mobile and professional was
The selection commission (namely it is that this year), to it not to lift
Qualitative festival of premieres. The historical chance is for this purpose missed. And destiny
Moscow (as, however, and other summer festivals) - to observe of, how
The best and newest films drift from Kanna to Venice and Toronto.
Valour sees in other - in collecting the arrogant
The information program. Where? Certainly, in the same Kanne. The colourful epos
Well-known Chinese Chen Kajge "the Emperor and the murderer". An eschatological parable
Fashionable Taiwanese Tsaj Min-ljanja "Hole". An antibourgeois film poem of the Frenchman
Leo Karaksa "Floor Iks". And deification - an is intellectual-sexual opus
Cult Peter Greenway of "8 1/2 women".
And though one of these films which have been switched on in the program of Peter Shepotinnika
Under the conceptual name "8 1/2", to someone will seem too
Lofty, and others - monotonous and boring, though some of them not
premerny even for Russia (are shown at Petersburg Festival of festivals), that
Not less to public and the press will be to speak about what.
Some more names and names are capable to involve film fans, if they still
Were not deduced in Moscow. "Happiness Cooks" American classic Robert Oltmana
And "Tea from Mussolini" the Italian classic Ex Dzeffirelli. "Gods and
Monsters "Bill Kondona with magnificent JAnom Makkelenom." The country of hills and
Valleys "Stephen Frirza with effective Vudi Harrelsonom. Bernardo's new job
Bertolucci "Captivated". Shining paraphrases vudiallenovskih that is "Happiness"
Todd Solondtsa. At last, promise the Moscow premiere lukasovskih "Star
Wars ".
Three of the promised pictures it is necessary to allocate especially as films-scandals,
And outstanding art level. It is sensation of the Cannes festival
-- Bruno Djumona's "humanity" (a portrait of the modern Christ taking on
Itself mankind sins), "Toto which lived twice" CHipri and Maresko
(Sicilian "sodomsky" the grotesque which has called damnations of clericals) and
"Romance" Katrin Brijja, courageous hybrid art-and a pornofilm.
If all of them are really shown, MMKF will definitively lose
The innocence which Nikolay Burljaev urged to observe strictly, this
The gold hero of the Russian cinema.
Festival-revival.
Again to turn a look towards cinema is and there is last chance
The Moscow festival. It is difficult to be kept, of course, from building
potemkinskih villages and from mass departures to Nizhni Novgorod or to Altai,
In shukshinskie Joints. Probably, a part of grandiose madnesses in style "a la
rjuss "organizers simply will cancel because of budgetary deficiency.
The budget of last festival, apparently, exceeded the Cannes. Crisis has helped.
Poverty for the Russian holiday of cinema - defect not bolshy, than merchant
zaguly.
About that is free or involuntarily thoughts and looks of organizers address to
To cinema, the agiotage round the future Russian program testifies.
Never round it so much passions boiled, were not organised so much
Discussions and "round tables". Though the moment like the most improper -
Films a cat naplakal. And that are, thirst to break to Venice or
San Sebastian. And still the whole two Russian pictures will participate in
The Moscow competition: "Passionate parkway" Vladimir Hotinenko and "Headlight" Abaja
Karpykova. Hors concours will show "the Sky in diamonds" Vasily Pichula.
The national prestige is rescued. It is necessary to restore the old kind
Rule when the main prize necessarily remained the at home.
ALEXEY'S GROIN.
Possibility to lift premier level of festival is missed. However to collect
The arrogant information program to organizers MMKF quite on forces.
In the information program there are three films-scandals, and outstanding
Art level.
//* an information Source: the Businessman-power, 20.07.99
//* Reg. Nom. - 1090700231.14-------------------------------------------
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