A PIT BULL'S PRAYER

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GLEN CAMPBELL

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NIKITA MIKHALKOV

http://www.allrovi.com/name/nikita-mikhalkov-mn0001814983

see above link for details and filmography...

IMHO..the most consistent of current Russian directors...25 years of quality films...some even seen in the West!!!

all are visual/artistic/sensual/sublime/evocative...YADA...YADA...YADA!!!

NIKITA as director/writer/actor....what a dynamo...here are some must sees, along with a clip/trailer!!!

#1. UNFINISHED PIECE FOR PLAYER PIANO (1977)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNo24lHSvQI&list=FL8TUS-355NTiVUZLUsL3m2w&index=6

based on the first play of ANTON CHEKOV (PLATONOV)...a visual and literary treat...only a Russian could make this film!!!

#2. OBLOMOV (1981)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIA9NVRy_t8&list=FL8TUS-355NTiVUZLUsL3m2w&index=5

from the Goncharov novel, the story of an aristocrat with too much time on his hands, who tries to discover the meaning of life!!!

#3. DARK EYES (1987)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhFLKI_4_rY&feature=mh_lolz&list=FL8TUS-355NTiVUZLUsL3m2w

italian with french subtitles???

based on CHEKOV short stories...previously made as LADY WITH A DOG..

MASTROIANNI is brilliant!!!!

#4. CLOSE TO EDEN [URGA]  (1991)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1JEDB0YdIA&list=FL8TUS-355NTiVUZLUsL3m2w&index=4

Russian truck driver meets MONGOL barbarians???   DERZU UZALA revisited!!!!

#5. BURNT BY THE SUN (1994)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPzpr08hFk

I would call it "fear and loathing under STALIN"...

winner BEST FOREIGN LANGAGE FILM..

a masterpiece!!!

#6. 12 (2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c02QRDk5XrI&list=FL8TUS-355NTiVUZLUsL3m2w&index=3

a Russian take on TWELVE ANGRY MEN...

MIKHALKOV rewrote the screenplay of Reginald Rose and gives Sidney Lumet a run for his money!!!

KALEIDESCOPE

http://inoyan.narod.ru/kaleidoskop.swf

H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S

check out the stink lines and flies!!

                                                             

THE SHINING

unfortunately...this is the only decent part!!!  thanx a lot...Stanley!!!

ARMAND HAMMER

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/business/armand-hammer/
the unbridled stink!!