Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. After being impressed with Sergei Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965), I was actually looking forward to his even ...

Pomegranates, from 1968, was the second film he made in the region of his birth, and tells the story of Armenian national poet Sayat Nova. Its intertitles are extracts from the poet’s verse, and it ...

Directed by Sergei Parajanov, this 1968 Soviet film translates the biography of the martyred Armenian poet Sayat-Nova into a series of vivid, often static, and (to non-Armenians) all but ...

When asked to describe how he became a film director, Sergei Parajanov compared his craft to kids playing dress-up and going on adventures. “Using feathers from a trunk, you transform yourself into a ...