You mean, like Znak kachestva and Izmeny? 
Nope. Very like “Under Military Law”, “Ambulance”, “The Village Detective” (a modern one).
And I don’t praise modern Russian cinema, for its corruption is very great. However, TV series are still much better than those of Hollywood.
TV is made in Burbank. Totally different city.
“Certain”? Why is it certain? And many TV series in the US, UK and other countries don’t aspire to be artistic, but instead entertaining. That’s what I’m looking for when I watch TV.
Back in my college days, I worked for a rural PBS station and, to fill the late night slot before sign-off we ran shitty old movies from the 30s-50s that were either public domain or super cheap to license. They almost invariably sucked. Just awful plodding stuff with mediocre acting and poor scripts and it was easy to see why they were in the licensing bargain bin to be shown from 10:30-11:55pm. I have no issue with old movies; I’ve seen a bunch either independently or through film studies classes. But old dreck is NOT any better than new dreck. If anything, it’s probably worse because at least new dreck seems to have more eye towards set design or mindless entertainment value. Old dreck is just a slog.
Yes yes, new member who is totally not Russian, continue to tell us all about great Russia.
Superior Russia much better than puny America.
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There doesn’t appear to have been any “ballyhoo”. I’d never heard of this case, and if the Wikipedia article doesn’t mention it, it seems safe to say it’s obscure.
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To the extent that any Americans at the time were complaining about this banning, I’m quite sure that those sticking up for the principle of free speech vastly outnumbered those who had any personal interest in actually seeing the movie.
The social importance of having one’s pants fall halfway down one’s butt eludes me.
To be fair, I don’t think he’s hiding his Russian-ness. Look at his name, for instance.
Or Vancouver, which is a completely different country. And no, it doesn’t look like Southern California, no matter what Psych tried to make you think.
I was being a little bit sarcastic, given the two are in the same region of the same metropolitan area. 
I, OTOH, was being a lot sarcastic. 
I know. But I wanted our Russian friend to research this.
I’ve been telling about the greatness of social realism and the grandeur of Soviet movies. I don’t try to hide my Russianess, even though there are loads of uncultivated persons, the likes of JohnT and silenus, who have been trying to deradicated Russianess in the world.
I am also a fan of Julie Andrews, and I was impressed with “The Sound of Music” and “Mary Poppins”. But the reviews for “Darling Lili” are very bad, on IMDB and also Rotten Tomatoes, and I would have to pay $4 USD to watch it.
Since the reviews are bad why should I watch the movie? Do you recommend it and why?
Has anybody here actually seen the movie? Does anybody recommend it?
~Max
The comments were written by the likes of silenus and JohnT, so I thought there’s something good in the film.
I’ve seen it. It is not a good movie. If looking for semi-obscure 60s movies starring Julie Andrews, try
This is an excellent movie that seems to be largely forgotten. I only know it thanks to TCM.
Thanks, I’ll probably watch that on my flight tomorrow! ($3 on Amazon, so a bit cheaper too)
~Max
Sorry, Max, I came in here to dunk on bad history and economics. Will say Americanization of Emily is a good film and is most definitely not about the Russianization of Emily which it most definitely would have been if Hollywood just hadn’t been so mean!