2/13/11

those insurmountable stairs

Cranes Are Flying 1

Cranes Are Flying 2

It's a sad love story for St. Valentine's Day, but a love story all the same.

Cranes Are Flying 4

Cranes Are Flying 3

Letyat zhuravli (1957)
aka Cranes Are Flying
directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
cinematography by Sergei Urusevsky

2 comments:

bugsy_pal said...

Nice blog.... I love Kalatozov's visual sense. He used black and white to great effect. Have you seen "The Letter That Was Not Sent"? Similarly striking

shahn said...

Ooh, I haven't seen that one! I will start looking for it, and I still need to watch "I Am Cuba."