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	RUSSIAN ARK
		Kultregisseur Alexander Sokurov erzählt 300 Jahre russisches Hofleben in den Räumen der Eremitage in St. Petersburg.
		RUSSIAN ARK verbindet Drama mit Kunst und Musik, aufwendiges Dekor mit rauschenden Kostümen, Vergangenheit mit Gegenwart - eine atemberaubende visuelle Reise durch die Zeit.
		Am historischen Set wurden rund dreitausend Schauspieler und Statisten von 22 Regieassistenten in 33 Räumen der Eremitage in Position gebracht, als Russian Ark nach monatelangen Proben an nur einem einzigen Tag gedreht wurde.
	www.russianark.de /film.htm (138 words)

	Planet Ark
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	www.planetark.org /dailynewshome.cfm (351 words)

	NYFF 2002 REVIEW: When Mise en Scene Trumps Montage; Sokurov's "Russian Ark"
		"Russian Ark," the new masterpiece by Russian director Alexander Sokurov, is an ode to the sumptuous salons and glittering galleries of the most fabled building of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg: the Winter Palace built for the czars in the middle of the 18th century.
		Russian Ark is a big-screen extension of the experiments he carried out most radically in his epic-length videos, "Spiritual Voices: From the Diaries of War and Confession: From the Captain's Journal," putting the ebbs and flows of unaltered time on the same artistic level as the historical and psychological issues he also wishes to explore.
		Russian Ark is a testament to both our fascination with history and our nostalgia for a glorious, decadent past.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_021212RussianArk.html (837 words)

	Sarah Maserati on Russian Ark on National Review Online
		The Virgil of Russian Ark is an enigmatic, batty European — he's a Roman Catholic, a French diplomat, a citizen of the 19th Century, and a marquis.
		Russian Ark explores the deepest sorrows of man and civilization: how to preserve memory in change, gain in loss, and how to give up the past as time marches on.
		When Communism cut Russians off from their past, it starved them of the lifeblood of memory, and halted the natural process by which a people and a nation reconcile themselves to the past, and move on.
	www.nationalreview.com /maserati/maserati031203.asp (1098 words)

	Russian Ark
		In Aleksandr Sokurov's new masterpiece "Russian Ark", a man known only as the Stranger (Sergei Dreiden) examines a painting not only by staring at it, but by viewing it at all angles from all distances, feeling its texture, even smelling it to truly absorb it.
		There is much that makes "Russian Ark" unique, but the highly touted aspect of this film is the fact that it is all filmed in one shot.
		To witness "Russian Ark" is to witness a true work of art whose influence has only begun to be born.
	bigspeegs124.tripod.com /bigspeegs/russianark.html (1078 words)

	ark - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		2 Ark of the Covenant, the sacred wooden chest of the Hebrews, representative of God or identified with Him.
		Especially guarded, it was carried about by staves thrust through rings on its side, for to touch it was a profanation punished by death.
		As its presence implied victory, it accompanied the warriors into battle, where once it was captured by the Philistines.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/ark.asp (289 words)

	Art, Film, Russian Ark - Johnson's Russia List 1-10-03
		Sokurov has been quoted as saying he made "Russian Ark" because he was "sick and tired of editing," but in truth this film is a natural outgrowth of his earlier works -- moody, elegiac films that at their best (1996's "Mother and Son") use visuals to create powerfully emotional states of mind.
		Preparations for "Russian Ark's" hour-and-a-half visit (which took four years to finance and organize) were understandably extensive.
		What "Russian Ark" also does is enable the viewer to reconsider what cinema means, to rediscover an older, more basic way of using the camera, a way that, ironically enough, fell from favor thanks to an earlier Russian generation of directors such as Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Kuleshov who raised rapid editing to an art form.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7012-9.cfm (917 words)

	Russian Ark (Russkij Kovcheg)
		Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov is an art film heavyweight lauded by critics for daring to bore them.
		Russian Ark could be exhibit A for Manny Farber’s white elephant art, that is, movies that try too hard to be masterpieces.
		Russian Ark is often dimly lit, and while director of photography Tilman Büttner escapes a lot of video snow and retains good clarity and decent resolution, the image is not nearly as sharp as on film and the colors are noticeably muted.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/RussianArk.htm (572 words)

	«RUSSIAN ARK» (Hermitage Bridge Studio, 2001) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Hermitage is to be seen in a new and revealing light in a forthcoming film, a unique ninety-minute panorama of the most famous palace in Russia, now one of the great museums of the world.
		In the popular imagination the Hermitage is a living entity, a fabric that breathes Russian history and culture.
		The film, like all films by Sokurov, will contain his visual meditations on the history of the Russian people and the lives of their descendants today, an amazing voyage through war, revolution, and social upheaval, which has left in its wake all the landmarks of a great culture.
	www.russianark.spb.ru /eng/index.html (500 words)

	Russian Ark
		Russian Ark is a film that hoists its middle finger high against the cultural practices of nearly a hundred years.
		This is the line that begins Russian Ark, as the film's unseen narrator is essentially born into the world of Russia's Hermitage art museum.
		Custard is withering on the subject of Russian culture (too dependant on copies of foreigners, says he), but as they wander through the museum we see the various time periods that are contained within.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/russianark.htm (706 words)

	IONCINEMA.com presents: Russian Ark (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Russian Ark's filmmaker-as-camera protagonist is inexplicably dropped inside the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
		Russian Ark catalogs and sorts through Russian artifice while calling attention to itself as performance art.
		The Hermitage-as-ark guards Russian history from the rest of the world at the risk of alienating its own people; indeed, the museum's modern-day gawkers are incapable of reading any given oil painting without the proper cultural and political context.
	www.ioncinema.com /beta/movie.php?id=447 (428 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Russian Ark'
		The glorious new film Russian Ark is such a rare ghost story, of two spirits haunting the Hermitage.
		Such is the fascination of seeing this nexus of history and art that you quite forget what a technical breakthrough Russian Ark is until the grand final procession, the aftermath of a ball letting out into the chill of dawn (and of course, into the Great War and the revolution).
		Russian Ark (Unrated; 96 min.), directed by Aleksandr Sokurov, written by Boris Khaimsky, Anatoli Nikiforov, Svetlana Proskurina and Sokurov, photographed by Tilman Büttner and starring Sergey Dreiden, opens Friday at the Towne Theater in San Jose.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.13.03/russian-0307.html (575 words)

	Magellan's Log: Hearing Is Believing: The Russian Ark
		In The Russian Ark, they may make the movie fatally flawed—and really inaccessible—to a non-Russian-speaking audience, because your eye is never able to focus without interruption on the seamless visual flow.
		Certainly this Russian ark is filled with riches, both the in situ architectural beauty of the Hermitage and the art that hangs in such abundance on its walls.
		The Russian Ark is a phantasmagoria containing a number of powerful images but whose dream-nature never achieves the engulfing level of true art.
	www.texaschapbookpress.com /magellanslog65/russianark.htm (1321 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Russian Ark" review (2003) Aleksandr Sokurov, Sergey Dreiden
		There is a genius to the experimental and utterly surreal historical epic "Russian Ark" that has nothing to do with the fact that it was shot in one uninterrupted, mind-boggling 93-minute take that passes dreamlike through three centuries of Russia's royal past.
		But "Russian Ark" is so vivid and spellbinding that such rational thoughts will be the farthest thing from your mind as you're drawn into the eras and events that unfold before your eyes.
		"Russian Ark" may be an astonishing achievement in filmmaking, but what makes it unforgettable is Sokurov's ability to draw us so deeply into the vibrant worlds he conjures -- without any cinematic slight of hand -- that the technical aspects of the picture become invisible and forgotten.
	www.splicedonline.com /03reviews/russianark.html (773 words)

	Russian Ark (2002)
		Russian Ark, Aleksandr Sokurov’s experimental art-house meditation on Russia’s cultural heritage and current identity crisis, has the distinction of being that film.
		Though casual viewers with no special interest in either film history or Russian history may be bored to tears, for serious film students Russian Ark is a must-see.
		Torn between wistful dreams of long-gone Russian glory and an uneasy awareness of the long shadow of European hegemony, Russian Ark is a dreamlike meditation on the soul of Russian culture from which the viewer finally awakens, stirred but not transformed.
	www.decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/1864 (322 words)

	russianark_1
		“Russian Ark” is like instrumental music or Gregorian chant, with about eighty per cent of its appeal to be found in the right half of the brain.
		Is there much of a story to “Russian Ark?” Well, no, not really, but there’s no story to Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue” or Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.” Like an evening at the symphony, either you’re overwhelmed by beauty, or your attention starts to wander.
		“Russian Ark” was rehearsed for seven months and has a cast of thousands—about two thousand to be precise—all waiting in the wings to spring out at just the right moment, in just the right room.
	www.geocities.com /fridaysaturdaymovie/russianark_1 (733 words)

	Russian Ark (2002) Movie Review by Kyle Smith at The Movie Insider (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Russian Ark unabashedly places more emphasis on its technical nature, but unlike big-budget action flicks, this is an otherwise unheard-of stunt—a ninety-minute steadicam shot that flows through thirty-three rooms of the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg, involving a reported two thousand actors and an unfathomable level of mass-scale coordination and organization.
		Russian Ark is not explicitly intended for international audiences, as it prevents a relatively uncompromised—though always proud—attitude concerning the nation.
		Russian Ark is a must-see; in an age of realistic special effects it is a vivid reminder that reality is always more fascinating, and in the canon of cinema it is an unparalleled technical achievement.
	www.themovieinsider.com /mr269-russian-ark-movie-review.html (616 words)

	Amazon.ca: Russian Ark: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We flit back and forth between centuries of Russian history, bourn on by two protagonists who may be spirits from other times, who are inexplicable moving through the Hermitage as part of their journey.
		Director Alexander Sukurov has said that "Russian Ark" is "a film about the Hermitage, for the Hermitage." Although it is interesting to identify and observe the various prominent figures from Russian history that we see, the film isn't a history lesson.
		It is entitled the Russian Ark because the Hermitage is an "ark" which preserves Russian culture and history for future generations.
	www.amazon.ca /Russian-Ark/dp/B0000ALPJ2 (2079 words)

	Film Comment Magazine: Sept/Oct 2002: Sokurov's Russian Ark
		There is the memory of some unspecified accident and suddenly a group of revelers in 18th-century costume disembark from their carriages at a side entrance to St. Petersburgâs palatial Hermitage, and the fantastic voyage begins.
		An anti-October, designed to reproach the montage theorists of Soviet silent cinema, Russian Ark is a single 96-minute tracking shot in which the narrator and a 19th-century Frenchman, apparently the Marquis Astolphe de Custine, accompany a lively group of dead souls across several centuries through 33 rooms of the worldâs largest museum.
		Russian Ark was shot (by Tilman Buettner, the East Germanötrained cameraman responsible for Run Lola Run) on high-definition digital video that was saved to disk with a custom-built hard drive.
	www.filmlinc.com /fcm/9-10-2002/sokurov.htm (285 words)

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		The ARK Project's unique approach to solving the animal overpopulation problem in this area is based on the premise that
		ARK has two main purposes: to provide temporary housing to displaced animals while providing them with intensive rehabilitation in the form of social skills training as well as physical rehabilitation, and to provide educational classes to the public in an ongoing effort to stop animal neglect, abuse and the euthanasia cycle.
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	James Sanford reviews Russian Ark (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whether you enjoy "Russian Ark" or not -- and this is a work that will polarize its audience -- it's impossible not to admire the stamina of cinematographer Tilman Buttner, who shot the entire thing in one uninterrupted take, lasting almost 90 minutes.
		"Russian Ark" is also a triumph for director Aleksandr Sokurov, who had to seamlessly choreograph the activity so that there was no downtime.
		"Ark" is frequently more admirable than it is enlightening; if you don't have at least a rudimentary background in Russian history, you'll probably find the whole project a snooze.
	www.interbridge.com /jamessanford/2003/russianark.html (561 words)

	Russian Ark
		Now consider that “Russian Ark” is a film with over 2000 actors, and three live orchestras which play at various points in the film.
		“Russian Ark” is a film that tells three centuries of Russian history by going throughout the museum and meeting various historical figures at different points in history.
		However, I am somewhat reluctant to recommend “Russian Ark.” It is basically a tour of the Hermitage Museum, and like most museum tours, it becomes boring.
	home.earthlink.net /~jchjch/Archives/R/russian_ark.htm (496 words)

	The Remaining Second World: Sokurov and Russian Ark
		Although Russian Ark should level a sense of shame on name filmmakers and their bloated “event films” –; now more than ever just more of the same old thing – Russian Ark is no self-styled magnum opus.
		The two main protagonists of Russian Ark are perhaps dead souls, and are seemingly mostly invisible – although one of them, the Marquis de Custine, is granted use of a visible and palpable body (to the other characters) in some sequences.
		Alexandra Tuchinskaya describes this affinity on the part of the Russian bourgeoisie as “apocalyptic impulses...already present in the culture and social life of the Golden Age of Russia.” (17).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/25/russian_ark.html (4750 words)

	Russian Ark (2002) - A Review by David Nusair
		Russian Ark's single take is actually one long point-of-view shot, as the unseen narrator (voiced by director Aleksander Sokurov) suddenly finds himself at the museum - with no explanation for how he got there or why he's surrounded by folks dressed in 18th century garb.
		In Russian Ark, there's no context for anything; the dialogue is entirely descriptive (I've never before felt such a longing for expository dialogue) and we're not given a single character to become attached to.
		Perhaps he made Russian Ark solely for his fellow countrymen and women, I don't know; whatever the case, he's created a film that's likely to baffle the majority of audiences.
	www.reelfilm.com /russark.htm (489 words)

	DVD review of Russian Ark - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When people discuss “Russian Ark”, they talk mostly about the way that it was filmed--in one unbroken ninety-minute take.
		The best way to experience “Russian Ark” is to think of it as a documentary that offers beautiful recreations of events that might have taken place in the Hermitage.
		I know that the logistics involved in the making of “Russian Ark” are very impressive, but this is stunt-making as much as it is filmmaking.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/Russian_Ark/11189/1759 (1047 words)

	RUSSIAN ARK
		Now, before you go dropping your hookah and racing down to the theatre, you should know the film is in Russian (subtitled, of course) and focuses on three centuries of turbulent Russian history, from Peter the Great through Nicholas II (and the Great Royal Ball of 1913, on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution).
		Ark starts with a fl screen and a narrator talking about some kind of accident before he opens his eyes and finds himself teleported back in time from present day to the 18th century.
		What follows is a crash course in both art and Russian history, assuming you can actually pay attention to anything but the grand, sweeping scope of the brazen technical gimmick (or the scene where Catherine the Great is trying to find somewhere to take a leak).
	www.sick-boy.com /russianark.htm (453 words)

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