о русской музыки и кино 6

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last posted Feb. 15, 2017, 12:23 p.m.
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Leningrad again, back in form with some interesting cinematography: we replay a great disaster, in reverse, rewinding to discover its origins...

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"We the people love all sorts of junk"

... whenever I wonder just WTF is going on with the Old Country, it's nice to be reminded that some of the problems they face are universal.

(prior mentions: A B)

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In Soviet Russia, girl meets boy: (and here instead of comrades in legwarmers we have comrades in recitals)

A little more urban than either the previous time we saw Silenzium, or their last tube:

But I guess we really should have expected another A.Пахмутова composition after their full-on Young Pioneer rendition of:

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Judging by the several examples on YT like «Выпускной Клип 2014 Днепропетровск школа 57»

Zveri's song has become a school-leaving anthem, somewhat analogous to "No more pencils/No more books".

Seems appropriate enough for the context in which I heard it today: a cabaret-style radio report on the California exit petition:

[Edit: I'd misremembered 'pencils' as 'rulers']

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it's not my 'zik, so I have no clue if: might ever be as much of a "New Year's Hit" as the title brags, but the video track confirms that not only I, but also native speakers, have noticed a fair amount of similarity between themes in western breakdance and in eastern dances of peasant origin; the latter half mixes these tropes nicely.

(prior mentions: A B)