>Soviet director makes a GOAT film >Only make another 2

Because In Soviet Russia directors had a thing called artistic integrity. Something totally lost in today's society.

Posting some russo kinos ive seen besides obvious ones:
Moscow doesn't believe in tears
Бpaт
The irony of fate or have a nice bath
Sherlock Holmes
17 moments of spring
The cranes are flying
Prisoner of the mountains

Larisa Shepitko is a kino director as well, The Ascent is masterful and Wings is also p good

>>87603826
>Best female director ever died that young

feels fucking bad

>>87603989
Yeah, i really can't even imagine what she would have been able to accomplish if she hasn't died so early on. Sad, sad stuff.

Agnes Varda is still around though, although she hasn't made a real film in a long time

>>87603989
But anon Kelly Reichardt is still alive

>>87603508
You forgot "10 little niggers"

>directors, artists and writers living under repressive governments and severe social pressures manage to create authentic, spiritually liberated artwork against all odds and despite the looming risk of horrible repercussions
I don't mean to be a shithead, but are there any good, truly "against the grain" films in contemporary America? Film is a business, so it's a little unfair to ask for complete independence and freedom. But is the market harder than the government sponsor, studio and censor? Would I be brave enough to put out a social critique that doesn't mesh well with either public opinion or some kind of Brahmin-class intellectual fashion?

>>87603190
i only know tarkovsky, what and who else should i check out?

>>87605001
kalatozov is another good one

>>87603190
I'm a pleb when it comes to russian cinema but I know at least that Tarkovsky struggled with getting his films approved. They even banned Andrei Rublev for decades because it was about christianity, I imagine it was a struggle in other aspects as well. I mean he left for Sweden and Italy to make films there, probably not only for aesthetic reasons.

>>87605001
Moscow does not believe in tears