Klassiki

Klassiki has been a member of Linktree for 3 years and joined in August 2022. The social media accounts linked to from Klassiki are: Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, App Store, Google Play, X. Besides social media accounts, klassiki_online has populated their site with Journal: Enter the wild world of Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kazakhstan’s prolific poet of the steppe, Now Showing: Kazakh Capers – two films by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Podcast: Beyond Mr Nobody – documentary under Putin, Podcast: Boris Barnet – poet of the outskirts, Journal: “We ourselves are nature” – Šarūnas Bartas reckons with grief in new documentary Laguna, Now Showing: Laguna, Now Showing: Letters from Wolf Street, Journal: A fairy tale for adults – animator Vera Shysh on brutality and tenderness behind bars in Belarus, Journal: goEast Film Festival director Rebecca Heiler on programming protest and powerhouse producers, Now Showing: goEast Film Festival 2026, Podcast: The moral maze of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog, Journal: The Watchlist – Springtime Cinema, Interstitial Cinema: the films of Artavazd Pelechian - Open City Documentary Festival, Podcast: Artavazd Pelechian – poetry at a distance, Now Showing: Timestamp, Podcast: The Klassiki Kino Club – Getting to Know the Big Wide World, Journal: Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers – John Greyson’s adventures in the Soviet Union, Podcast: Peter Strickland heads back to the East, Now Showing: Klassiki Picks with Peter Strickland, Podcast: The Czechoslovak New Wave and beyond, Podcast: To dance is to resist – queer life in wartime Ukraine, Journal: Rugby, MC Hammer, and teenage kicks – Ignas Miškinis on The Southern Chronicles, Now Showing: The Southern Chronicles, Podcast: Building film culture in Uzbekistan, Journal: The Klassiki Companion – The Polish Film School, Podcast: 100 years of Andrzej Wajda, Journal: Marble and iron – Andrzej Wajda’s men of history, Now Showing: 100 years of Andrzej Wajda – literature on film, Now Showing: 100 years of Andrzej Wajda – men of history, Podcast: Roman Bondarchuk’s Ukrainian badlands, Journal: “Openness and imagination” – perspectives on the art and politics of Sergei Parajanov, Podcast: Sergei Parajanov in love and war, Journal: The fortress and the bard – visions of the Caucasus in Sergei Parajanov’s late films, Now Showing: Perspectives on Parajanov – late masterpieces and a documentary tribute, Now Showing: Waterdrop, Journal: Faith in images – the post-war visions of Miklós Jancsó and István Szőts, Silence and Cry review – deeply strange 1960s erotic ballet meditating on Hungary’s history and politics | Film | The Guardian, Journal: The Klassiki Companion – Miklós Jancsó, Now Showing: Poet of the Plains – two films by Miklós Jancsó, Journal: Dreams made material – the cinema of Soviet infrastructure in Central Asia, Now Showing: Period Pieces – historical dramas for the modern world, Journal: Nobody wanted to remember – how Vytautas Žalakevičius remade Lithuanian film for the post-war world, Now Showing: Baltic Spirit – three classics from Lithuania, Podcast: Deciphering The Saragossa Manuscript, Podcast: Valeska Grisebach returns with The Dreamed Adventure, Podcast: The Klassiki Kino Club – An Unusual Exhibition, Journal: Christine Haroutounian’s After Dreaming is a dreamlike road trip across an Armenia scarred by war, Journal: The Watchlist – the Polish history lessons of Andrzej Wajda, Journal: The Klassiki Companion to Kira Muratova, Klassiki Notes: Martin Scorsese's Secret Inspiration, Now Showing: Women with Movie Cameras – iconic female directors, YouTube, Journal: Arjun Talwar searches for a home away from home in immigration documentary Letters from Wolf Street, Podcast: Julia Loktev on My Undesirable Friends: Part One – Last Air in Moscow, Journal: As Andrei Zvyagintsev returns, a look back at the lasting impact of his modern Russian masterpiece Leviathan, Journal: Maria Rigel on the “quiet sadness” of her Armenian crime drama Thus Spoke the Wind, Journal: Landscapes of collective fate – the political resonances of nature in Armenian cinema, Review: Peter Bradshaw on The Saragossa Manuscript in the Guardian, Journal: Inmates running an asylum – on Kaljo Kiisk’s cult Estonian satire Madness, Podcast: Rewriting history in Aleksandr Askoldov’s Commissar, Now Showing: Soviet Sixties – new waves and red rebellion, Journal: The Watchlist – Seasonal Soviet Animation, Now Showing: Hadik, Become a Klassiki Member, Journal: Dužan Duong reflects on emigration and family history in Summer School, 2001, the “first Czech Viet-film”, Season 5 of the Klassiki Podcast is up!, Podcast: Eastern notions – celebrating Ali Khamraev, Letterboxd HQ, Podcast: Lucian Pintilie – godfather of the Romanian New Wave, Journal: The long, strange trips of Wojciech Jerzy Has, Now Showing: The Saragossa Manuscript – 27 Nov - 25 Dec, Now Showing: FilmFestival Cottbus – 6 November - 4 December 2025, Podcast: The Klassiki Kino Club - The Return of the Projectionist, Podcast: Horror behind the Iron Curtain, Journal: Witching hours - Gogol, Viy, and the Ukrainian roots of Soviet horror, Now Showing: Two Faces of Soviet Horror - a Halloween double header of cult classic chills, Podcast: Mother Teresa and Persian poetry at the London Film Festival, Journal: Wind, Talk to Me - Stefan Djordjević on his family portrait of grief and acceptance, Now Showing: Wind, Talk to Me, Journal: The lonely voice of Aleksandr Sokurov – reflections on the last icon of the Russian arthouse, Now Showing: Cult Comedies – six films on the absurdity of modern life, Journal: Scorched earth comedy – Roman Bondarchuk’s Ukrainian badlands, Journal: Potemkin at 100 - the afterlives and history lessons of Eisenstein’s avant-garde classic, Now Showing: Sándor Reisenbüchler - four psychedelic animated shorts, Now Showing: Russian Eclipse – two films by Aleksandr Sokurov, Journal: Sándor Reisenbüchler - the unlikely career of Hungary’s hippie hermit of animation, Community Pick: The Needle (1988), Klassiki member Leah Collins introduces her pick, The Needle, Collection: Cinema of the Donbas - a guide to the Ukrainian East, Podcast: Cinema of the Donbas, Journal: Negotiating Rachid Nougmanov’s The Needle, Journal: Cinema of the Strugatskys, Now Showing: Compartment No. 6 (2021), The Watchlist: Klassiki Picks with Ben Rivers, Klassiki Picks with Ben Rivers: 7 August – 4 September, Podcast: From Shakespeare to Solaris - the otherworldly career of Jüri Järvet, Video Essay: How the Soviet Avant-Garde Invented TikTok, Podcast: Film at the end of the world, with Ben Rivers, Journal: Unravelling the twisted crime films of Corneliu Porumboiu, Gangster Tales collection, Introduction: Polish Film School, Kino Club: Eroica (1958), Podcast: Klassiki Kino Club - Andrzej Munk’s Eroica, Video Essay: Béla Tarr - Existentialism on Film, Podcast: Béla Tarr, Hungary’s maestro of melancholy, Interview: Libuše Jarcovjáková - the “Nan Goldin of Prague”, Now Showing: I’m Not Everything I Want to Be (2024), Podcast: One hundred years of Marlen Khutsiev, Klassiki Notes: The Shakespearean Face of Soviet Sci-Fi, The Watchlist: Summer Love, Summer Love: five tales of sun, sex, and cinema collection, Klassiki Podcast, Podcast: Rolands Kalniņš - riding the Baltic New Wave with “Latvia’s Godard”, Kino Club: Confidence (1980), Video essay: The Soviet Jean-Luc Godard Hollywood Forgot, Podcast: Klassiki Kino Club - István Szabó’s Confidence, Video Essay: The Cinema of Ukraine's War, Journal: Lucian Pintilie: remembering the godfather of the Romanian New Wave, The Guardian review: Reconstruction (1968), Classic Romanian Cinema: before the New Wave Collection, Video Essay: Why Kubrick Called This Banned Polish Series a Masterpiece, Podcast: From Rossellini to Dracula: Radu Jude in Transylvania, Ester Krumbachova – Collections, The Watchlist: Klassiki Picks with Alissa Timoshkina, Klassiki Picks with Alissa Timoshkina: 5 June – 3 July - Klassiki, Now Showing: The Return of the Projectionist (2024), Journal: Orkhan Aghazadeh interview, The Watchlist: Věra Chytilová, Spotlight: Kira Muratova, Community Pick: I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018), Journal: Rolands Kalniņš: riding the Baltic New Wave with “Latvia’s Godard”, “Maybe this is what female cinema is”: Dea Kulumbegashvili on April (2024), Journal: goEast Gems Watchlist, Journal: Springtime Cinema Watchlist, Now Showing: Drowning Dry, Kinoteka On Tour: 9 Mar - 29 Apr, Now Showing: New Russian Documentaries, Podcast: Caught by the night - the gothic visions of Juraj Herz, Journal: Sybilla Tuxen on Silent Sun of Russia, Pick of the Week: Smiling Georgia (2023), Pick of the Week: It’s Not My Film (2024), Podcast: Jonas Mekas - a Lithuanian abroad, Podcast: Under the Grey Sky: inside the crisis in Belarus | The Klassiki Podcast, Pick of the Week: Farewells (1958), Journal: Farewells and the surreal film career of Wojciech Has, Podcast: The long, strange trips of Wojciech Jerzy Has, Pick of the Week: The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973), Journal: Damian Kocur reimagines the Ukraine war film with Under the Volcano, Borderlines Film Festival: 28 Feb - 15 Mar, The Quay Brothers' Klassiki Picks: 13 Feb - 6 Mar, Ester Krumbachová: the ghost of the Czech New Wave, Walerian Borowczyk short films, Podcast: Roads to Golgotha: why Larisa Shepitko’s war-haunted films still resonate today, Pick of the Week: The Stone Wedding (1972), Journal: Igor Kovalyov looks back on a lifetime in animation, Podcast: Pressburger, the Hungarian heart of British film, The Watchlist: Klassiki Picks with the Quay Brothers, Pick of the Week: Life Without Gabriella Ferri (2008), Podcast: In the studio with animation legends the Quay Brothers, Pick of the Week: Grey Bees (2024), Journal: Road to nowhere: Sergei Loznitsa and Russia’s wartime ghosts, Community Pick of the Week: House on the Volcano (1928), Journal: Hamo Bek-Nazaryan, the forgotten legacies of the father of Armenian film, Klassiki member Neil Clarke introduces House on the Volcano, Journal: The Watchlist: the early treasures of Soviet animation, Pick of the Week: 8 Views of Lake Biwa (2024), Journal: Libuše Jarcovjáková, the “Nan Goldin of Prague”, Pick of the Week: We Will Not Fade Away (2023), Pick of the Week: Yellow Cat (2020), Podcast: How Kalatozov and Urusevsky reinvented Soviet cinema, Journal: Dekalog: navigating the moral maze of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s tower block epic, Pick of the Week:A Short Film about Love (1988), Pick of the Week: Ida (2013), The Watchlist: Seasonal Soviet Animation, The Klassiki Companion: Béla Tarr, The Watchlist: Winter Wonders, The Watchlist: the Polish history lessons of Andrzej Wajda, Pick of the Week: The Beauty (1969), klassiki.online, klassiki.online, klassiki.online, Podcast: Shooting through tragedy: Shoghakat Vardanyan on 1489, Journal: Running the rails - László Csáki animates the past in livewire documentary Pelikan Blue, Pick of the Week: Pelikan Blue, Event: Per Aspera Ad Astra at Ciné Lumière, 10 Dec, Journal: From Shakespeare to Solaris: the otherworldly career of Jüri Järvet, Pick of the Week: Madness (1969), Stream Three Baltic Classics From The London Baltic Film Festival, Podcast: One hundred years of Sergei Parajanov, Journal: Roads to Golgotha - why Larisa Shepitko’s war-haunted films still resonate today, Founder's Pick of the Week: Song of the Cornfields (1948), Festival: London Baltic Film Festival at Rich Mix, 28 Nov - 1 Dec, Letterboxd List: Animations of the Late Eastern Bloc (1980-1997), Event: Fairytale (2022) at Close-Up Cinema, 15 Nov, Podcast: Eisenstein and Ivan the Terrible today, Journal: Nadejda Koseva captures a society in crisis in her eco-thriller The Trap, Pick of the Week: The Trap, Podcast: The lonely voice of Aleksandr Sokurov, Journal: Antigone in Belgrade - Vuk Ršumović on Dwelling Among the Gods, Pick of the Week: Dwelling Among the Gods, FilmFestival Cottbus: 7 - 28 November, Podcast: The Klassiki Companion to Poland in the eighties, from Wajda to Kieślowski, Event: Alexander Sokurov's Elegies at the Bertha DocHouse, 5 Nov, Podcast: Dea Kulumbegashvili and Petar Valchanov at the London Film Festival, Event: Klassiki presents Animations of the late Eastern Bloc + Recorded introduction at the ICA, 31 Oct, Journal: Witching hours - Gogol, Viy, and the Ukrainian roots of Soviet horror, Podcast: The footballing fantasies of Sandro Koberidze, Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival 2024, Podcast: Under the Volcano: Damian Kocur on his Ukraine war drama, Journal: “Maybe this is what female cinema is”: Dea Kulumbegashvili on her award-winning abortion drama April, Podcast: Prefab pictures: Cinema of the tower block with Owen Hatherley, London Georgian Film Festival 2024, Pick of the Week: Grace, Journal: From Cranes are Flying to I Am Cuba: how Kalatozov and Urusevsky reinvented Soviet cinema, Pick of the Week: Klondike (2022), The Joke (1969) (UK only), Closely Observed Trains (1966) (UK only), Journal: Looking for Ester Krumbachová, Pick of the Week: Murdering the Devil (1970), The Klassiki Companion: Béla Tarr, Pick of the Week: Feelings (1968), The Yugoslav Black Wave: sex, subversion, socialism collection, The Klassiki Companion: The Yugoslav Black Wave, Ukraine’s Oleh Sentsov on his remarkable career: from working behind bars to filming on the frontlines, Submit Your Choice For Our Community Screening, 25 July, Pick of the Week: The Fifth Seal (1976), Brief encounters: Otar Iosseliani and the subversive art of the short film, The Watchlist: Celebrating Pride Month with The Pink Pickle, Journal: What Do We See: the inspirations behind Alexandre Koberidze’s modern-day Georgian fairy tale, Pick of the Week: What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021), Green Border + La Palisiada Ticket Competition, Profile: Yuliya Solntseva, The Klassiki Companion: the cinema of the Soviet Thaw, The Klassiki Journal: Binka Zhelyazkova: remembering the defiant conscience of Bulgarian cinema, Time and motion... My Grandmother (1929), with Stephen Horne.