Yep, but that's connected to German culture's well-established (and, in the US, largely unknown) fascination with severely romanticized images of Native Americans—Karl May and so on.

None of them as bad as forced famines or basically anything that happened under Stalin in the 1930s. Look, the USSR was a pretty terrible place to live in or close to, but it definitely hit peak nightmare early on.

Bananas didn't grow in the Soviet Union or anywhere close to it. Some things that Americans accept as everyday food are luxury items elsewhere. In Japan, a watermelon costs $40.

Not suggesting that at all. But it's not like the worst thing the West did during the Cold War was Ivan Drago, or that the USSR was just one long Stalin-a-thon.

CIA-backed coups, Iran, Vietnam, turning South America into a collection of right-wing dicatorships, campaigns to discredit the civil rights movement. The Soviet Union's worst came before the Cold War.

News From Home is a very good entry point. Also recommend Je, tu, il, elle, Les Rendez-vous D’Anna, and, in keeping with this week's Cold War theme, D'Est, her excellent documentary on post-Soviet life.

Maybe it's a question of generations or regions? Poland was always "abroad" (zarubezhiye) as far as I knew it.

Of course. But it doesn't make it Soviet.

Poland wasn't part of the Soviet Union.

To be fair, it's Red Square, which has been paved in cobblestone since before steam engine were a thing, let alone cars.

Animated in Japan, actually. (Hence the anime-esque sense of movement.)

Yeah, but you try to watch a scene where someone says, "How old are you son?" and he answers, "Twenty-three!" with a straight face.

Like @borisdelores:disqus says, he wasn't much of a forward thinker, but he made genuinely lovely music—on the good days, at least. On the bad days…

Have you seen ungraded ArriRaw, though? Film dailies may be a little rough, but at least they have color.

April 1st, apparently.

The assumption is that The Daily Planet is the equivalent of something like The New York Times. Glassdoor reports the average salary for an NYT reporter as around $100-105K.

You in the UK? Opens April 8.

Opening of the Heat screenplay:

I don't know, most things made in the West have some kind of relationship to Christianity, however subsumed.

Actually, Zemeckis' debut was I Wanna Hold Your Hand, also shot by Donald M. Morgan, who was hired for Elvis partly based on his work on that film. He went on to shoot Used Cars; it's likely that Zemeckis was introduced to Russell through him.