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...

Gestures of Resistance: An Interview with Tan Pin Pin

AI at the Movies and the Second Coming

Breaking the Synchronicity: An Interview with Rana Eid

Inventing Rituals: Cultural Politics in Zhang Yimou’s Historical Films

Imag(in)ing a Nation: Ali Mostafa about the Emergence of Emirati Cinema

A Time of Reckoning? The 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Showcasing a Myriad of Landscapes and Cityscapes: The Odessa International Film Festival

The Hope for Fissures: the Night Sight Program at the Crossing Europe Film Festival

Marty Finally Comes to Bologna: Cinema Ritrovato XXXII

Mapping Yin and Yang in the Post-Modern Urban Sprawl: The 2008 AFI Fest/American Film Market

Cinema Affairs: Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945, by Weihong Bao

Declaring the ‘End’, Signaling a Renewal: The End of National Cinema: Filipino Films at the Turn of the Century, by Patrick Campos

The Aesthetic Mobilities of Lyotard’s Film-Philosophy: Acinemas: Lyotard’s Philosophy of Film, by Graham Jones and Ashley Woodward (eds.)

The Said and the Unsaid (Part I): Australian Film Theory & Criticism (3 vols.), ed. Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams

The Critic as Creator: Better Living through Criticism, by A.O. Scott

Ida Lupino’s Hard Noir: Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel, 1954)

Hail (Amiel Courtin-Wilson, 2011)

A City in Transition in Taipei Story (Edward Yang, 1985)

Love and Suffocation in Man Is Not a Bird (Dušan Makavejev, 1965)

Rocco and his Brothers

Weerasethakul, Apichatpong

Oliveira, Manoel de

Grandrieux, Philippe

Visconti, Luchino

Petzold, Christian

Author Anastasia Kostina

Anastasia Kostina

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