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This digital document is an article from Artforum International, published by Artforum International Magazine, Inc. on March 1, 2008. The length of the article is 976 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Elegy to the Chechen republic: James Quandt on Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra.(FILM)(Movie review)
Author: James Quandt
Publication: Artforum International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2008
Publisher: Artforum International Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 46Issue: 7Page: 97(1)

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This is nonfiction commentary.Chapters: Russian Ark, Moloch, Mother and Son, the Sun, Moscow Elegy, Days of Eclipse, Alexandra, the Lonely Voice of Man, Painful Indifference, the Degraded, Empire, Confession, Taurus, Father and Son. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Russian Ark (Russian: ) is a 2002-released Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. It was filmed using a single 96-minute Steadicam sequence shot. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. An unnamed narrator, unseen by the audience and voiced by the director, wanders through the Winter Palace (now the main building of Russian State Hermitage Museum) in Saint Petersburg. The narrator implies that he has died in some horrible accident and is a ghost drifting through the palace. In each room, he encounters various real and fictional people from various time periods in the city's three-hundred-year history. He is accompanied by "the European" (played by Sergei Dreiden), who represents the nineteenth-century French traveller the Marquis de Custine, and who is visible to the audience. The fourth wall is repeatedly broken and re-erected; at times the narrator-director and the companion interact freely with the other performers, and at other times, they go completely unnoticed. The film begins on a winter's day with the arrival by horse drawn carriage of a small party of men and women to a minor side entrance of the Winter Palace. The narrator, whose eyes are always in a first person point of view, meets one member of this party, "the European", and follows him through numerous rooms of the Palace. As each room is entered, the scene changes to a different period of Russian history; however the periods are not in chronological order. The film shows, among other things, the spect...http://booksllc.net/?id=169202 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Queen's Quarterly, published by Queen's Quarterly on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1381 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Paradoxes of power in Russian ark.(Movie Review)
Author: Maurice Yacowar
Publication: Queen's Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Queen's Quarterly
Volume: 110Issue: 2Page: 287(8)

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This digital document is an article from CineAction, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1185 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Sun.(2005 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL)(Movie Review)
Author: Adam Nayman
Publication: CineAction (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 68Page: 59(2)

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This digital document is an article from Mensaje, published by Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1114 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Memoria, pasado y presente.(El arca rusa)(Eterno resplandor de una mente sin recuerdos)(Reseña de película)
Author: Pablo Azócar
Publication: Mensaje (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino
Volume: 53Issue: 532Page: 48(2)

Article Type: Reseña de película

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