All of the essays included in the program for the New York Film Circle Critics awards dinner, held a week ago on January 6, are now online. I wrote on the film we voted as the winner of Best Non-Fiction Film, Julia Loktev’s five-and-a-half-hour documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow. Loktev was present, as were Anna Nemzer and Ksenia Mironova – two of the journalists “profiled” in the documentary, now living in exile, having been run out of the county after being labeled “foreign agents” and “undesirables” and “enemies of the people” by Putin. Mikhail Baryshnikov was there – !! – to present the award. The room was FLATTENED by the charimsa of this LEGEND. The legend and dissident. Proud to play a small part in getting out the word on this important film.
