Fairytale month vol.2

July brings us the sequel to Fairytale Month Vol.1 from last April. If last year was a battle between Rou and Ptushko only, vol.2 could be called Assorted because it contains works from everybody else and from anywhere else. We have FILMS that were chosen, yes. We do not have a SCHEDULE for them. The consensus was just working off the vibes, so they come when they come. So in no particular order, in July we have:

Dybbuk 1937 + Dybbuk the play - Jewish folklore!

A Tale of Lost Time - SURPRISE PTUSHKO and a modern soviet tale.

An Old Old Tale - we have no idea what’s in there, it has good reviews.

The Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase - another modern soviet tale.

The Little Mermaids: the movie and the cartoon - for double death

The Scarlet Flower - an outlier in the sense that its style is just so goddamn weird. So not a tale. Intriguing.

About The Little Red Riding Hood - A PREMIERE because I just subtitled it, from the director of Buratino that will watch in an abridged songs only version before the main movie.

Animation day - 8 cartoons spanning decades and countries, includes classics from armenmultfilm, Akairo, and the Flying Ship among others.

Every Friday and Saturday on beam at 10pm Moscow time, and we’ll update this post when it’s time for each of these to show their face.

Easy nice weekend:

Today aka Friday 7th - the yellow suitcase. Laughing powder, you say. Drug candy, you claim. Hmmmmm

Saturday 8th - a tale of lost time, get yoinked youth roflmao

THE DYBBYK

Opening up FAIRYTALE MONTH VOL 2 is the film adaptation of a mythological play about a mythical phenomenon in Jewish tradition - The Dybbuk by S. Ansky. This play became almost legendary for how it intertwines the myths and stories collected by Ansky during his ethnographic expedition in Jewish communities in it's world transcending love story, and Michal Waszyński froze it in time and condensed it into a two hour long movie, filming it right before the onset of the second world war as well as keeping it entirely in Yiddish. The story focuses on two best friends and the love of their children, and how a broken vow of the past generation leads to a dead man clinging to life and a body that isn't his. So if you're interested in love stories that go beyond any reason and physical state, learning about some Jewish myths and experiencing what is one of the most important and iconic plays of the Jewish theatre, join us this Saturday, the first of July, for a watchalong on hyperbeam dot com at 10 pm Moscow time! :) I'll reblog this post 15 minutes before the movie starts with a link to the room

Best otp winner of 2022 btw

he is in the ball pit o no

just ate an orange… no scurvy for me thank you… #NoScurvy

Anyway I'm rewatching In Search for Captain Grant (the Soviet miniseries) for silly gay reasons and honestly this shit is so hilarious like there's a scene where Jules Verne is talking to his publisher and the man is like "You know what your novel is missing? A wacky gay scientist. I insist you add one!" And Verne has Already come up with a ridiculous long name for him And how to insert him into the story without having to rewrite shit. And it's literally just:

Episode One is a comedy

Fuck it let's make it a thread why not!

The breakfast scene is deadass hilarious because of the way they all seem to have made a silent agreement to troll Paganel 😔

Watson surrounded by bees after using “Le Jovial”

SOVIET SUMMER CLUB VOL.3: UNRESTRAINED SUMMER FUN

SUMMER TIME!

For the third year in a row we are keeping up with the Summer Months in the Soviet Movie/Series Clubs™, this installment gets a self-explanatory title of UNRESTRAINED SUMMER FUN and as per usual, we’ll try out best to run merrily along the coastline with our tiddies bouncing uncontrollably. 

The first summer weekend opens up with summer camp classics, and the honor of opening up the summer vol.3 in general belongs to

ONE HUNDRED DAYS AFTER CHILDHOOD 

A great return from last year that went second that time. Last year, the first film was

WELCOME OR NO TRESPASSING 

That this year goes second, so we’ve switched them around in 2023. 100 days? Summer, poetry, vibes, teenagers, twirling a flower in your hands as you are enjoying a nice summer breeze. Trespassing? POV ur 10 playing amogus. BOTH IN A SUMMER CAMP! So,

Friday June 2nd - ONE HUNDRED DAYS AFTER CHILDHOOD

Saturday June 3rd - WELCOME OR NO TRESPASSING

Both at 10pm Moscow time on beam, join us to say hewwow to summer xoxo

Erry Friday of June from now on is CAPTAIN GRANT TIME

@lmaowh-at​ with a BOMBASS poster (check out the others!!!!)

And Saturday is disney Mary Poppins as crossposted in the comparison year, both at the usual 10pm Moscow.

Soviet Poppins came and went, now it’s time for:

Friday 23rd - Grant ep5, supplemented by bits of Grant the movie we’re slowly going through

Saturday 24th - KIDNAPPING CAUCASIAN STYLE FR, years after we’ve first seen it in the Club(tm) it finally returns and Shurik is about to gather soooo much folklore. And kidnappings. 

Both at the usual 10pm Moscow.

he is in the ball pit o no

“Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson. The Murder of Lord Waterbrook” (2005). Russian cartoon, comedy.

Voice of Sherlock - Vasily Livanov

making an ask game that's Not Like Other Ask Bait

COMPARISON YEAR

Soviet Movie Club™ and Series™ were struggling for months about how to make this work in any given timeframes, and came to the conclusion that the best way to compare films is to give it all the entire year to waste. It sure took us until April but here we are.

In this fiscal year of 2023, we will occasionally compare adaptations: films, series, Soviet on Soviet violence Soviet vs foreign adaptations. We’ve got all the time to spare so as we go along, let me compile the comparison history in this one post.

The first and very sudden comparison is LA REINE MARGOT: the 1994 French movie vs the Russian 1996 series. It is sudden and all over the place because the circumstances of discovering that the series has subs at all was a hook to the temple, in the sense that sure they are subs…. to the abridged 10 episode version. The series is 18 episodes. We’ve already watched Monsoreau, its immediate season 2. The 1994 movie will suck no doubt and that is why it has the dishonor of opening up the comparison year: let’s watch how worse it could get in order not to lament too much about half of the series being cut for subs. 

Running on April Fools no less, so today, 10pm Moscow time. 

WINNER OF BATTLE ONE: MARGOT THE SERIES

Still not out of the Dumas trenches, this time the weak battle is between THE PRISONER OF CASTLE IF, and THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO 2002, both being adaptations to the obvious book. Castle If is 3 episodes, the movie is movie-length’d obviously, none will do the book proper justice, so we will just judge which one of these holds up the most. Soviet Union vs modern USA vs Dumas’ another doorstopper it is, we are already finishing up the series this Friday so no point in catching up with us, but the movie drops Saturday 27th at the usual 10pm Moscow, let’s see how it goes. 

WINNER OF BATTLE TWO: DRAW [equally shitty]

Next up is a highly hyped up and anticipated (by me only? source?) pvp of two Marys. Not the mom vs Magdalene. 

DISNEY MARY POPPINS VS MARY POPPINS, GOODBYE 

Same source, sometimes even same decisions made, and yet what peculiar differences. Disney’s classic for kids vs Soviet classic that was NOT made for kids. Both have songs, in both the guilty party is ultimately adults, both give Mary a male companion, both end up catering to kids anyway, both are approximately the same runtime. And yet! 

We have decided to let disney go first, so Mary Poppins 1964 drops this Saturday 10th June at 10pm Moscow time, and Mary Poppins Goodbye follows on Saturday after aka 17th June at the same time. 

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Sherlock Holmes edition