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To: elmatador who wrote (56806)	3/25/2006 9:27:28 PM
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The Moscow Skycraper sundancechannel.com Documentary filmmaker Pavel Lounguine casts a critical eye on Russian society and history by focusing on the story of a monumental apartment building designed to house Stalin’s KBG officers and the Moscow elite. Built by prisoners of war and Gulag detainees, the massive neo-gothic high-rise still houses descendants of Stalin’s inner circle, who now prize their prime Moscow real estate. Focusing on the skyscraper’s current inhabitants, Louguine paints an ironic and revealing profile of a country still riven by the dark shadows of its past. There is a video clip you can watch at the link. I watched this today on the sundance channel. They talked about how in the 50's whatever happiness you had was doled out by the party. Then suddenly you were able to go to the markets and BUY things to make you happy - proving Blu Cantrells - hit em up style - shop your problems away - even infected communist Russia in the late 50's. They showed all these people buying nice clothes, nice pastries, shop shop shop, spend spend spend. Are you still in Iran el mat? I am worried about you. If you missed it not to worry - it comes on again at 3/28. Immediately after showing the wealthy moscow real estate capitalists that were KGB descendants - this program came on: sundancechannel.com Offering an eye-opening glimpse of everyday life in contemporary China, documentary filmmaker Jiang Yue profiles two employees at China's busiest train station. At work, Mr. Fu and Mr. Liu deal with everything from finding a home for an abandoned baby to cramming holiday travelers into overloaded trains. (The scramble for room through open windows is unforgettable.) At home, scenes of startling intimacy capture Mr. Fu and Mr. Liu facing some universal challenges: money trouble, an unhappy marriage and a child leaving home for the first time. It was hilarious El Mat - one of these guys goes and buys a new house - then him and his wife lose thier jobs - and then they lose thier new house - a sign of things to come? Watching everyone go in through the windows to get a ride on the train - truly a spectacle.