AW: BEg2 ch25 Reg, the Russian-movie cinephile

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Off to watch this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Babylon

Shostakovich's score will be played live.


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Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> schrieb am Sonntag, 20. März 2022 um 09:10:

> Igor knows Reg, as mentioned before.
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> “Very sympathetic young man. Great appreciation for Russian cinema. Always
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> at Gorbushka Market buying up kilos of DVDs, piratstvo, of course, but no
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> Hollywood movies, only Russian—Tarkovsky, Dziga Vertov, Lady with Little
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> Dog, not to mention greatest animated film ever made, Yozhik v Tumane
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> (1975).”
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> Maxine hears spasmodic sniffling and looks in the front seat to
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> find Misha and Grisha both with tears in their eyes and quivering lower
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> lips. “They, ah, like that one too?”
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> Igor shakes his head impatiently. “Hedgehogs, Russian thing, don’t ask.”
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> Gorbushka Market -
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> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbushka
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> “The word itself is an associative usage of an untranslatable Russian word
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> for the first slice from a loaf of bread which contains mostly the crust.
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> If the loaf is round, the shape resembles a hump (Russian: горб). The word
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> has many cultural associations in Russia. Before the year 2001 the name
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> "Gorbushka" referred to an open-air black market for software, music,
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> videos and electronics. The market was in the city square by the Gorbunov
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> Palace of Culture ( ДК имени Горбунова), hence the name.
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> “The market dealt mostly in unlicensed music and software CDs,
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> videos, gaming consoles with mod chips, as well as video games. Due to
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> the copyright infringement issues Gorbushka was in sights of the government
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> for a long time. The market closed in 2001.
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> “In its place a more legal shopping center Gorbushkin dvor was
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> opened. Alexei Khotin is reported to own the company now.”
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> Dziga Vertov - Soviet film pioneer.
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> https://youtu.be/64jLxgCWukY “Man With a Camera” soundtrack by Michael
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> Nyman - one of 22 listed in Wikipedia. Originally it was a silent movie
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> with live music in the theater, but none of the 22 claims to replicate that.
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> New to me, though very famous.
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> Lady with Little Dog -
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> https://youtu.be/jdNvQbi73cU film based on Chekhov story.
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> Yozhik v Tumane (1975)
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> https://youtu.be/ThmaGMgWRlY
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> Hedgehog lost in the fog finds his friend again, whereupon they relax into
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> a companionable stargazing session, enjoying tea and raspberry jam, but
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> along the way he’s had adventures and seen a thing of wonder that he keeps
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> thinking about.
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