Tag: Russia
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Encore Interview with Ekaterina Sedia
This is an encore presentation of a interview with Ekaterina Sedia that first appeared here at Bill Ectric’s Place on September 30, 2008. “Every city contains secret places. Moscow in the tumultuous 1990s is no different, its citizens seeking safety in a world below the streets – a dark, cavernous world of magic, weeping trees,…
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Back In the USSR
From the Austin Film Society, a fascinating article about the 1936 Russian film, Cosmic Voyage: Despite its impressive accuracy in several aspects of space travel, the Soviet sci-fi film COSMIC VOYAGE (1936) was scarcely known to exist until recently. Fritz Lang’s German sci-fi film WOMAN IN THE MOON (1929) received much wider distribution and exhibition…