Russia’s oldest film complex up for sale

I saw this article in Variety about Russia’s oldest film complex, Moscow’s Gorky Studios being put up for sale.  This is a terrible thing.  I wish I had the money or resources to save it.  If I were to win the lottery, I would surely be broke in a matter of months because I would use all of my winnings (after paying off my student loan debt) to purchase and restore movie palaces and other historic structures.  I just hate the idea of history being obliterated so a condo complex can be built.  Every time a structure like that is lost, a bit of the city or country’s personality and soul is taken away as well.

Ok, I’m off to 7-11 to purchase a lottery ticket.  Wish me luck.

First Comment:

1. Karie, the collapse of the Soviet Union just about wiped out what was left of the Russian cinema. One reflection of that is the fact that LACMA’s screening of Sergei Bondarchuk’s “War and Peace” is not the original full-length 70mm version, which nobody apparently can find. But at least it’s not the horribly dubbed American release. Something in between, and in Russian. This is the version that was available on DVD from, I think, Ruscico. I would go see it at LACMA, but I think I’d have to have novocaine in my back for the duration.

   Posted by Randy Man on 06/06 at 12:36 PM