good Russian movies and audiobooks

topic posted Mon, June 18, 2007 - 11:09 PM by 
I'm a Russian-speaking immigrant who grew up here in the US, and I'd like to improve on my language skills a bit. I learned a fairly stilted, polite, 1950's version of Russian from my family, and haven't really spent much time with people my age who use colloquialisms.

I'm interested in finding some good modern movies to watch, or some audio programs on mp3, to help with filling in the gaps.

-Movies-wise:
I'm not terribly into romance or relationship movies, but otherwise, just looking for 'good' films I guess. I'm not really sure what's out there, just don't want to spend time on anything terribly sappy. I assume at least some of you are counterculture folks and might have recommendations more in line with stuff I'm into.

-audio:
I'll be doing a huge drive across the country here soon and wanted stuff to listen to on the stereo. I guess I"m totally open as far as subject matter as long as it's a bit more like conversational modern Russian since learning it is my primary goal in this project. Internet radio recommendations, anyone? I"m not even sure where to begin here.

I'm reasonably fluent in spoken Russian in general, just clueless when it comes to colloquial speech. I'm not a great reader in Russian so researching this stuff on the Internet in russian-language sites is very slow for me.
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  • Re: good Russian movies and audiobooks

    Sat, June 30, 2007 - 9:29 PM
    last year's Italianetz was pretty good, although might fall into the sappy category. I recently bought a few old films that were being shown at a film festival that i couldn't attend, they sound really interesting:

    Человек-амфибия

    Вечера На Хуторе Близ Диканьки

    Город Зеро


    I'd be into a having a little movie night if anyone's interested...

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