Brooklyn-based filmmaker David Novack has crafted an intelligent, poetic and engaging documentation of Isaac Babel’s grandson’s search for his grandfather: writer, man, Jew, Russian. This search reveals small and large stories surrounding Babel, and it encompasses Russia, Brooklyn, France, Ukraine, and more. We witness the enduring power of words, the rising power of truth.
This information rich 88 minutes feels like a walk through many Babel realities, including his writing works that vividly recall real events -- is descriptions of occurrences so powerful, and threatening to the existing Stalinist regime that he was not simply murdered, he was secretly murdered. The authoritarian intent was to erase and blow away any remains of Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel/Case File #419/no inmate file/May 15, 1939.
Andrei Malaev-Babel’s search for his grandfather connects a personal search to the historical era that informs and provides cautionary revelations about authoritarian political action as it follows...
This information rich 88 minutes feels like a walk through many Babel realities, including his writing works that vividly recall real events -- is descriptions of occurrences so powerful, and threatening to the existing Stalinist regime that he was not simply murdered, he was secretly murdered. The authoritarian intent was to erase and blow away any remains of Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel/Case File #419/no inmate file/May 15, 1939.
Andrei Malaev-Babel’s search for his grandfather connects a personal search to the historical era that informs and provides cautionary revelations about authoritarian political action as it follows...
- 1/30/2017
- by Carletta Joy Walker
- www.culturecatch.com
UK director Stephen Frears has been awarded the Golden Duke Lifetime Achievement Award during the opening ceremony of the fifth edition of the Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff, July 11-19).
The festival is dedicating an homage to British director Frears, who gave a master class at the parallel Summer School and attended an open-air screening of his latest film Philomena on the city’s Lanzheron Descent steps
Speaking at a press conference at the weekend, Frears said that when he received the invitation to come to Odessa, he recalled a piece by writer Isaac Babel describing the Black Sea port as ¨a gangster town¨. “And then I wanted to come!¨
¨I’ve never been to a city so beautiful,¨ Frears said about his first impressions of Odessa.
Remembering Sentsov
During the opening event at Odessa’s Musical Comedy Theatre, the audience was asked to remember the Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov who is currently in detention in Russia...
The festival is dedicating an homage to British director Frears, who gave a master class at the parallel Summer School and attended an open-air screening of his latest film Philomena on the city’s Lanzheron Descent steps
Speaking at a press conference at the weekend, Frears said that when he received the invitation to come to Odessa, he recalled a piece by writer Isaac Babel describing the Black Sea port as ¨a gangster town¨. “And then I wanted to come!¨
¨I’ve never been to a city so beautiful,¨ Frears said about his first impressions of Odessa.
Remembering Sentsov
During the opening event at Odessa’s Musical Comedy Theatre, the audience was asked to remember the Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov who is currently in detention in Russia...
- 7/14/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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