Culture & Art

Leon Pufferson27.04.2020

Recently, I was revising my collection of animated films and came across a film that I recommend to watch for everyone over 50 years old. “La Maison en Petits Cubes” is either a cautionary tale of environment or a sentimental story. The world gets flooded and each time the water level goes up, the residents […]

Eugenia Gorbunova27.04.2020

“The Backwater Gospel” is the mystical animated film or story of a small community in the U.S. prairies. As long as anyone can remember, the coming of The Undertaker has meant the coming of death. Until one day the grim promise fails and tension builds as the God fearing townsfolk of Backwater wait for someone […]

Eugenia Gorbunova26.04.2020

“Nothing in life is perfect. Except for a lucky few…” What can be better than an endless holiday? Waking up every morning you understand that there is nothing more to do than to just enjoy yourself. That was the thinking of a creepy monkey-like creature. Every day is a celebration and in the best traditions […]

Kathryn Kazantseva23.04.2020

Probably, each of us at least once thought about thing, as about something living with our own feelings. People have always endowed the inanimate soul in ancient tales, in books, in films, and, of course, in cartoons. And for the Japanese it’s completely customary to believe that everything created by nature is a container of […]

Eugenia Gorbunova21.04.2020

Finding your place in the world might be not easy. And the life of a small acorn from the animated short “Acorn” is a good confirmation of this. When it was the right time he fell from his oak-tree and goes on an adventure chasing his dream. Sounds familiar? We, people, do exactly the same: […]

Yuri Chekalin20.04.2020

Late inthe spring of 1886, a young man named Hasegawa Tatsunosuke, known to the Japanese literary world by his penname Futabatei Shimei,’ began to write his first novel. After he had struggled with it for many months, the first part was published in June 1887. The rest of the novel, which he called “Ukigumo” (“Drifting […]

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