{"id":2178,"date":"2014-06-22T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2014-06-22T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:50:46","slug":"russian-director-heralded-for-centaur-inspired-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/06\/22\/russian-director-heralded-for-centaur-inspired-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian director heralded for Centaur-inspired film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/06\/Yana_Skopina_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2179\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/06\/Yana_Skopina_01-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Yana_Skopina_01\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>The Calvert Journal, A Guide to Creative Russia<\/em> recently published an article on &#8220;Shooting Stars: five Russian female directors to watch,&#8221; and one of them\u2014<strong>Yana Skopina<\/strong>\u2014was heralded for her short film <em>Milky Way Galaxy<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Milky Way Galaxy<\/em> is based on John Updike&#8217;s novel <em>The Centaur<\/em>, which chronicles the complex relationships between a father and son. Shot on 35mm film, a rarity for a short, Skopina made the film as a tribute to Updike &#8216;In choosing the film&#8217;s color scheme, I studied the works of Andrew Wyeth extensively (an American realist painter). Updike and Wyeth were like twin brothers. They even had similar intonations.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calvertjournal.com\/features\/show\/2632\/shooting-stars-five-russian-female-directors-to-watch#.U6cH5hb4-69\">&#8220;Shooting stars: five Russian female directors to watch&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calvert Journal, A Guide to Creative Russia recently published an article on &#8220;Shooting Stars: five Russian female directors to watch,&#8221; and one of them\u2014Yana Skopina\u2014was heralded for her short film Milky Way Galaxy: &#8220;Milky Way Galaxy is based on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/06\/22\/russian-director-heralded-for-centaur-inspired-film\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}