Episode list

Navalny's political videos a movie? Criticism must be independent. Travel to Uzbekistan. What is Battleship Potemkin (1925) and reviewing The Father (2020), Chernobyl: Abyss (2021), Gunda (2020).

Who needs an Oscar? Johnny Depp changed his image? What to watch at the Moscow Film Festival? Also a microtonal music of Ivan Wyschnegradsky and time travel.

Lars Von Trier anniversary and and blind Björk, Pavel Priluchny in the air and Timur Bekmambetov in the studio. And also Richard Wagner and Kirill Serebrennikov, Schwarzenegger vs. Stallone and various types of cheese.

Results of "Artdokfest" - cancellations in Russia and farm releases in Latvia. Which Eisenstein is famous in Riga? Short interview with Vitaly Mansky.

Asian movies vs. Hollywood. New novel by Vladimir Sorokin and adaptation of Peter Rabbit. And also questions of selfishness and dreams.

School shooters in life and in the movies: How are Stephen King, Marilyn Manson and the Cannes Film Festival related? And also an unexpected performance by Evgeny Tsyganov and the eternal summer question - a melon or a watermelon?

Billy Porter as Fairy Godmother vs. Georgy Millyar as Baba Yaga. How did the Decembrists live at the end of exile? Carey Mulligan's hopeful revenge, and where does the cancelled of famous people? And the main question - red or blue pill?

How are dictators different in movies and in life? Did Cruella become Disney's Joker? Why did Valeriya Gay Germanika return to documentary? And the main question for Beatlemania is Lennon or McCartney?

What will be shown in Cannes 2021? Which band has influenced contemporary music as The Beatles? A new Russian war-thriller with Yura Borisov in Tarantino style.

Alexander Sokurov anniversary: what movies of the director to watch? Release Luca (2021) and The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020). New books of Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and film director Andrey Zvyagintsev. Orwell and Zamyatin?

Why won't the Romanian winner Berlin be shown in Russia? What do the characters Taxi Driver (1976) and Joker (2019) have in common? And why do film critics praise movies that few watch?

Actor's prizes are not for women or men, but gender-neutral: what does this mean and who needs it? Jetlag (2021) and the return Amélie (2001). Plato or Aristotle and who is the Binturong.

Why do you need to re-release movies in movie theaters? Review of the movie Black Widow (2021). Poetry or prose? Interview with Kirill Serebrennikov about Petrov's Flu (2021), Joseph Brodsky Museum "Room and a Half" and a favorite meme.

Cannes 2021 - what has changed since the break? Russian landing at the festival. And also the singing Adam Driver, the Verhoeven nuns and the happy ending of Ozone. The city of Cannes unites Carmen and the iron mask.

The first online stream dedicated to the results of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Anton Dolin, together with co-host Natalia Shorokh, discuss movies and answer questions from viewers.

How has the pandemic affected the film industry? Other than The Suicide Squad (2021), Annette (2021) and Free Guy (2021) starring Ryan Reynolds, what movies should be expected in August? Is it hard to be a film critic?

Film historian Naum Kleiman recommends ten greatest movies previously featured in previous episodes of the show.