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''Iskusstvo Kino'' (
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: Искусство кино, ''Film Art'') is a film magazine published in Moscow, Russia. It has been published since 1931 and is one of the earliest magazines in Europe which specialize on film theory and review alongside the British magazine ''
Sight & Sound ''Sight and Sound'' (also spelled ''Sight & Sound'') is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). It conducts the well-known, once-a-decade ''Sight and Sound'' Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, ongoing ...
'' and the French magazine '' Cahiers du Cinéma''.


History and profile

The magazine was founded in 1931. The headquarters is in Moscow. It was published on a monthly basis from its start in 1931 to 1941. Following its temporary closure during
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
it was relaunched in 1945 and was published irregularly between 1945 and 1947. After that it was published bi-monthly from 1947 to 1951. Since 1952 it has been published monthly. During the
Soviet period The history of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (USSR) reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world. Though the terms "Soviet Russia" and "Soviet Union" often are synonymous in everyday speech (either acknowledging the dominance ...
''Iskusstvo Kino'' was the official magazine for cinema industry in the country. The magazine included the
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by the leading
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officials. At the same time it argued that films should meet the demands by public. From 1963 the magazine and another film magazine ''
Soviet Screen ''Soviet Screen'' (russian: link=no, Советский Экран, Sovetsky Ekran) was an illustrated magazine published in the USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental c ...
'' began to be published newly founded state-funded company
Goskino Goskino USSR (russian: link=Yes, Госкино СССР) is the abbreviated name for the USSR State Committee for Cinematography (Государственный комитет по кинематографии СССР) in the Soviet Union. It w ...
, which was responsible body for the coordination of film production and distribution in the Soviet Union. The magazine covers articles on film theory and film reviews. American scholar Vladimir Padunov contributed to the eightieth anniversary issue of the magazine. In the 1960s Valerii Golovskoi was the editor. Daniil Dondurey is among magazine's editors. During the 1980s ''Iskusstvo Kino'' had a print run of 50,000 copies, while the magazine sold 2,000–3,000 copies in the 1990s. In 2004 the magazine sold 5,000 copies. The longtime editor-in-chief Daniil Dondurey died in 2017. He was succeeded by Anton Dolin, who raised a crowdfunding campaign for the magazine that gathered 3 million rubles. The magazine was archived by East View Information Services, Inc. based in
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.


The editors

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Ivan Pyryev Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Пы́рьев; – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stal ...
(1946) * Nikolai Lebedev (1947–1949) * Dmitri Eryomin (1949–1951) * Vitaly Zhdan (1951–1956) * Lyudmila Pogozheva (1956–1969) * Yevgeny Surkov (1969–1982) * Armen Medvedev (1982–1984) * Yuri Cherepanov (1984–1986) * Konstantin Shcherbakov (1987–1992) * Daniil Dondurey (1993–2017) * Anton Dolin (2017–2022) * Stanislav Dedinsky (since 2022)


See also

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List of film periodicals Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception. Their articles contrast with film reviewing in newspapers and magazines whi ...


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