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Obviously doesn't exist. The silver screen is as wide as life itself, and the best film of all time is like the most useful tool of all time. What's that, a car ? a hammer ? a gun ? So, there may be great films, but not the best of all time.
One of those great ones, Возвращение... Ehh, You don't read Russian, do you. Well, let's call it The Return and leave it at that then. The Return, directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev (a debut) and starring a bunch of nobodies, is in fact a work of genius. If it never existed, human culture would be at a loss, which is more than can be said for the combined productions of a good half of all the A-list actors in the US. Good reason to drown yourself, that, by the way. Just in case you're reading this. Sadly, an inept publisher (Kino) keeps this film from the public, with idiotic pricing (25 bucks for a DVD, what the fuck) while the entire film's budget would have fit five or six times in a million bucks. Add to that inept distribution and the result is unsurprising : three years later, the only people that heard about it are still just the people who follow European film festivals, where it did very well. Those people knew about it back in 2003 and besides, they don't need to watch it as much as pathetic wretches who take their dream rations from the likes of ben stiller. Average Joe Blow, with a constructions job and a penchant for action movies needs to see this film, not Jeoffrey Pencilneck the IIIrd, who lives in Venice anyway. Since I firmly believe many people would benefit a lot from being in the presence of this avatar of perfection, I decided to offer the full film for free download. You can find it here : vozvrashchenie.avi (Right click, save as, and if you're using internet exploder, PLEASE, I beg of you, USE a download manager.) Since we already established you don't read Russian, English subtitles are available here : vozvrashchenie.sub If you like it, let your friends know. You'll be doing a lot more for art and artists that way than by giving any money to shitty industrial concerns. Needless to say, I never asked for permission. Then again, Kino never asked me for permission to charge 25 bucks per (localised, pfft) DVD. Quite frankly, I hope they choke on it, and don't even start telling me how we wouldn't have great films if there wasn't a Kino around to "promote" them. That "promotion" basically ammounts to keeping good films away from the market so that bullshit franchises can sell in the tens of millions. After all, who wants talent, talent is unpredictable and business hates unpredictable. Better off promoting shit actors and shit films, and then using the proceeds to buy rights to actually good content from starving artists and go dig a hole somewhere and bury it all in. I really hope they sue me. 1 people want to know what was in the guy's box. |