To Russia With Lovelace

Inside Deep Throat had its first international release earlier this month, in Moscow at the Dome Theater, one of several movie houses located in what might be called luxury hotels there. (Click here to see a review of the Dome and other cinemas in the city.) We would have reported this before, but the WOW Report is still trying to get info on the film's reception by Muscovites, and perhaps a review from Pravda's Arts & Leisure section. So far, nyet luck.

Dome Cinema (< click)

A cinema in "Penta Renaissance" hotel. Interesting design of the hall, movies always in original language translated in Russian through headphones. Good quality dolby surround sound. Nice, but slightly overpriced restaurants and cafes in the lobby.



Address: Olimpiski prospekt, #18/1 "Renaissance in Moscow" hotel, tel. 931-9873 (answering)

Area: North Center of Moscow, Prospekt Mira metro (circle). It's better to take a car from the metro for 30 R ($1), say you need "Penta Renaissance" hotel.

Yesterday the film opened in Singapore and, interestingly, it received an R21 rating, not only restricting it to those 21 and older but also prohibiting it from running in suburban theaters and disallowing TV and radio advertising "under all time belts." We can only hope the guidelines for screening the doc will be looser when it opens in the time belts of the UK on June 10 and Australia July 6.