Author Anastasia Kostina

Anastasia Kostina

Anastasia Kostina is a PhD student in the joint program in Film and Media Studies & Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Anastasia’s academic interests lie within documentary history and theory with particular focus on the relationships between documentary and ideology. Prior to joining Yale University, Anastasia worked as a documentary film editor for the state-sponsored Russian news TV-channel RT.

1927: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Esfir Shub)

Anastasia Kostina

December 2017

100 Years of Soviet Cinema

Issue 85

Compiling History for Masses: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty In August 1926, Sovkino, the Soviet state body in control of cinema production, commissioned Esfir Shub to make a film commemorating the tenth...

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and the problem of aging in film

A Day at Kitano’s Beach: Sonatine Makes a Fresh Start

Poverty and Women’s Sacrifices in Stella Dallas (1937) and Wendy and Lucy (2008)

‘This Thing of Ours’: A Woman’s Place in the Gangster Genre

The Perils of Being Up in the Air

Back to Basics: The New Spirit of Cinéma du Réel

Looking Forward and Looking Back: The 20th Jeonju International Film Festival

Echoes of Exclamation: The 65th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Tricky Women/Tricky Realities and the Body Politic

Dispatch from the Rockies: The 9th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Political Gestures: Cinema/Politics/Philosophy, by Nico Baumbach

Mythologicals Matter: A Review of Deities and Devotees, by Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda

A Mensch’s Moviemaking: Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual, by Nathan Abrams

A Multitude of Meanings: The Long Take: Critical Approaches, ed. John Gibbs and Douglas Pye

‘Are you by any chance a sad-eyed, innocent villain in pictures?’ / ‘Yes, I'm afraid I am’ (1) Peter Lorre: Face Maker by Sarah Thomas

A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)

Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow, 1990)

Close to You: Elaine May’s The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)

Lucky Luciano

Huston, John

Stone, Oliver

Klapisch, Cédric

del Toro, Guillermo

Tati, Jacques

Author Anastasia Kostina

Anastasia Kostina

1927: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Esfir Shub)