He worked with Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando: how a Russian-speaking immigrant conquered Hollywood

Film historian Harlow Robinson has written a book about director Lewis Milestone. All Hollywood called him Millie. He himself, when his Russian-speaking colleagues officially addressed him as "Mr. Lewis Milestone", said with a laugh: "What kind of Lewis I am, I am Leva Milstein!"

Crazy or swindler: the director took $55 million from Netflix for the series and spent it on his own needs

In the fall of 2018, at the height of the streaming boom, a half-dozen studios and video platforms lined up to woo a little-known director named Carl Eric Rinsch. He only directed one film, 47 Ronin. It was a commercial and public failure. Nobody…

'The director, like a child, does not say no to the world: Roman Viktyuk died

Theater director, People's Artist of Russia and Ukraine Roman Viktyuk died at the age of 85. This was reported by Meduza with reference to the press service of the theater, which was founded and headed by Viktyuk for many years. At the end of October, it was reported that Viktyuk was hospitalized with a coronavirus infection...

Film director Georgy Danelia, who shot 'I walk across Moscow', died

Film director Georgy Danelia died in Moscow at the age of 88, Novaya Gazeta reports referring to his relatives. George Danelia was hospitalized due to pneumonia in February. He ended up in intensive care, the doctors temporarily put him into an artificial coma to stabilize his breathing. According to the director's wife, ...

Russian director Stanislav Govorukhin died

The famous Russian director Stanislav Govorukhin died at the age of 82. This was announced by the speaker of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin at a plenary session, writes Mail.ru. “I want to inform you that at 10:37 am in the sanatorium“ Barvikha ”after a serious and prolonged illness, our colleague Stanislav passed away ...

How Russian director Ilya Naishuller made his way to Hollywood.

Ilya Naishuller’s film “Hardcore” (in international release) was released in more than 30 countries in April 2016 and grossed $14,3 million - a very good result for a film that cost about $3 million to film, not...

Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall dies in California

Harry Marshall passed away on July 19. The director died at the age of 82. The older brother of actress and director Penny Marshall died of pneumonia in a hospital in Burbank. His last film was Horrible Ladies, in which he reunited with Pretty Woman star Julia ...

Leonid Parfenov shot a large-scale trilogy about Russian-speaking Jews

This spring, the first episode of a new film by the famous journalist Leonid Parfenov, “Russian Jews,” will be released. The trilogy tells about the influence of Russian-speaking Jews on Russia and the whole world: from the time of the partitions of Poland to the present day. “Our film is about everything connected with existence...

Died Eldar Ryazanov. The great Russian director was 88 years

  The great Soviet and Russian filmmaker Eldar Ryazanov died in a hospital in Moscow at the age of 88. Eldar Ryazanov has been in the hospital for the last week. When the director's condition worsened, doctors hooked him up to a ventilator. The state of the medical filmmaker ...

The son of a Hollywood director is fighting in Syria on the side of al-Qaeda

The son of Hollywood director Patrick Kinney, according to CNN, turned out to be the first white al-Qaeda fighter in Syria. In the Syrian al-Nusra Front, which is the local branch of al-Qaeda, Briton Lucas Kinney is called the “cover guy”. Lucas' father worked on many projects in Hollywood as an assistant...

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