A second season of the psychological mystery drama Undone is coming to Amazon Prime Video.
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Lise Pedersen Swiss-based sales and distribution agency Lightdox has acquired world rights for “How to Save a Dead Friend,” the debut doc by Russian filmmaker Marusya Syroechkovskaya. Lightdox provided Variety exclusive access to the film’s trailer ahead of the film’s world premiere at Swiss doc film fest Visions du Réel next week.
Shot over more than a decade, the film chronicles the love story between millennials Marusya and Kimi, and his descent into drug addiction against the backdrop of Putin’s rising autocracy.The filmmaker was given her first video camera at the age of 10, and has never stopped filming the world around her since. “It was my tool to make sense of everything that was happening to me, to explore the world,” she tells Variety, speaking from Israel, where she and her partner have taken refuge since early March following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I was protesting for many years: I went to anti-government rallies and, lately, to the anti-war demonstrations. My brother was arrested, my boyfriend spent time in prison for protesting.
The authorities knew where we were, so it was just a matter of time before we would get arrested,” she says. Her intention with her debut film was to share a message in the name of Russia’s “silenced generation.” “Putin is trying to get control over the population through isolation: he isolates them from the rest of the world, which makes the country so much easier to control.
“Among other things, he gets rid of independent media, but what I wanted to reflect in the film is how this isolation and apathy affects the new generations. If it wasn’t for such an isolation policy maybe Kimi would have got help for his depression and his addiction.”She and Kimi met at a grunge
.A second season of the psychological mystery drama Undone is coming to Amazon Prime Video.
New York Post, John happily spoke about several of his box office bombs, indicating, "I always have the best time off-camera on those movies because you've got to make up for it."However, he noted that he could have done without 1996's "Executive Decision," in which he and Steven starred. "Yeah, I did not have a good time with Steven Seagal. No one has," John said.
Russian military have attacked Kyiv with an air assault and promised more missile assaults following the sinking of one of their top ships in the Black Sea.
The Death Of Stalin.The actor said in a new interview that Putin’s briefings could be outtakes from Armando Iannucci’s satire on Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union leader’s legacy.“The Death of Stalin is so prescient; some scenes could be directly ripped from the news,” he said in a fan Q&A published by The Guardian.“Putin’s press conference where he lined up all of his cabinet members could have been a monstrously less funny outtake. I find it terrifying that one of the best hopes is that somebody in Putin’s circle will reach across that 300-foot table and put an end to this.
tweeted a video of himself discussing Sunday night’s slap, saying Smith “was wrong,” but that he “understood the feeling.” Simpson also noted within the video that people had apparently been asking him for his opinion on the exchange. Oliver was definitely not one of them.“Nope, not you O.J., not you,” he said Sunday night. “No one wants to hear from you on this, especially when you seem to be coming live from the COVID patio of a Señor Frog’s.
. Ward has reported extensively from Russia and Ukraine and specifically on matters related to Alexey Navalny for several years.“Alexey Navalny was just last week convicted and sentenced in Russia and cannot tell the story of what happened to him. Our film shows his tremendous courage fighting an authoritarian regime and its corruption inside Russia. I’m looking forward to the Fathom Events engagements and speaking to CNN’s Clarissa Ward. I appreciate Warner Bros.
Christopher Vourlias More than four weeks into Russia’s disastrous war in Ukraine, and just one week after a court sentenced Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to nine years in a high-security prison, “Navalny” director Daniel Roher made a passionate plea on behalf of the jailed politician in Copenhagen, lashing out at the “murderous” regime of President Vladimir Putin and arguing that filmmakers must “pick a side” in an increasingly fractured and polarized world.“There’s a right side of politics. And yes, filmmakers pick a side.
Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk 2 will now seemingly go ahead as planned with a rematch date and venue said to be confirmed.
Spotify are reportedly set to suspend its service in Russia in response to the country’s newly announced media law.According to Reuters, the streaming platform, which closed its office in Russia indefinitely earlier this month due to Moscow’s “unprovoked attack on Ukraine”, is expected to cease in the country late next month.It comes after Russia introduced a new legislation that makes it illegal to report any event that could discredit the Russian military.“Spotify has continued to believe that it’s critically important to try to keep our service operational in Russia to provide trusted, independent news and information from the region,” the company said in a statement.“Unfortunately, recently enacted legislation further restricting access to information, eliminating free expression, and criminalizing certain types of news puts the safety of Spotify’s employees and the possibility of even our listeners at risk.”Ukraine has been under attack since February 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a military operation in the neighbouring country.