War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk; 1966)
Lyn Seren, host of Gentlemen Don't Get Caught: An R.E.M. Podcast joins Ally Pitts to discuss this suitably epic adaptation of Lev Tolstoy's famous masterpiece. Support the show/fund Ally's caffeine ha...
3 Jan 20211h 15min
Morozko [AKA Frosty AKA Father Frost AKA Jack Frost...] (Alexander Rou; 1964)
Carrie Pitts, Russian language & literature graduate, joins Ally Pitts to discuss this festive fairy tale adventure featuring winter wizard Ded Moroz and notorious witch Baba Yaga. Listeners in the UK...
27 Des 202044min
Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (Blake Harris; 2020)
Samantha Berkhead, Moscow Times editor and bad movie enthusiast, joins Ally Pitts to discuss this extremely ill-judged pre-teen fish-out-of-water/time-travel comedy which features the doomed Romanov p...
6 Des 20201h 6min
Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov; 2018)
Caroline Ridler, academic and musician, joins Ally Pitts to discuss this musical/drama/biopic which follows the growth of the Leningrad rock scene in the early 1980s, with a particular focus on one of...
22 Nov 20201h 38min
Brief Encounters (Kira Muratova; 1967)
Bianca Garner, film critic and editor and founder of In Their Own League, a website focusing on female filmmakers, joins Ally Pitts to discuss this 1960s romantic drama co-starring legendary Soviet ba...
2 Nov 20201h 25min
Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan (Sergei Bodrov Sr; 2007)
Dr Sarah Ifft Decker, professional historian and host of Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast, joins Ally Pitts to discuss an epic drama/war movie based on the early career of one of the most (i...
1 Nov 20202h 55min
Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov; 2002)
Jonny Tickle, Moscow resident and YouTuber, joins Ally Pitts to discuss this meandering, mysterious walk through Russian history and Saint Petersberg's Hermitage Museum, filmed in a single continuous ...
2 Apr 20201h 29min
My Boyfriend is an Angel (Vera Storozheva; 2011)
Carrie joins Ally once again, this time to discuss a fantastical rom-com in which Sasha (Anna Starshenbaum), a student, meets Serafim (Artur Smolyaninov), a celestial visitor in Moscow on New Year's E...
13 Feb 20201h 9min
