From The President’s Cake to The Kashmir Files, global and Indian cinema is now a battleground of ideology, image-making, and ...

1923 star Helen Mirren is one of the most respected film actors of her generation. But did you know that she once appeared in one of the most controversial X-rated films of all time? Mirren was ...

The film stock looks authentically grainy and there are leisurely screen wipe transitions and unfashionable slow zooms. For some, this might be an affectation too far. It certainly stokes feelings of ...

Actor Viktoria Miroshnichenko’s critically-acclaimed debut in Beanpole has landed her a nomination at the prestigious European Film Awards, which will take place next month in Berlin. “It has ...

Beanpole (2019). While the brutality of conflict plays out in specific ways for Iya and Masha, the film also reveals the reality of the men who fought in the trenches.

Beanpole or Dylda is a Russian feature film shot in St. Petersburg. It was theatrically released a little more than a year ago. It is available for home-viewing on DVD and Blu-ray, as well as on ...

In the case of Beanpole, Balagov and his collaborator, Aleksandr Terekhov, drew on Svetlana Alexievich ’s oral history of Soviet women in combat, The Unwomanly Face of War, although the film is ...

Last year, Russian director Kantemir Balagov made big waves with his latest film, Beanpole, which follows the plight of two young women in post-WWII Leningrad.Now, it looks like Balagov has chosen ...

The friendship between the statuesque nurse Iya, a.k.a. "Beanpole" (Viktoria Miroshnichenko) and Masha (Vasilisa Perelygina), who has returned home from the front, is the focal point in this story ...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association recognized the work of a Russian director as the best film of the year in a foreign language, TASS reports. The award was given to Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov ...

Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe,” an anthology of five films centered on the lives of Black people in Britain, won best picture from the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. on Sunday. It’s the first ...