Archive - The Big Board

100 Film Moments That Stay With Me

Limiting this to 100 is hard. I tried my best.

Apr 28 • Jeremy Fassler

Yes, Hasan Piker, The Soviet Union Was Bad

Piker said this week that the Soviet Union’s collapse was “a catastrophe.”

Apr 17 • Jeremy Fassler

The Moscow Diaries: From Page to Stage

Or: They shouldn't have cut the giant black cat from The Master and Margarita.

Apr 9 • Jeremy Fassler

The Moscow Diaries: Meyerhold, Stanislavsky and the Death of Theater

Or: How my least favorite class in Russia put me in touch with true evil.

Apr 1 • Jeremy Fassler

March 2026

Two Prosecutors

Sergei Loznitsa's latest film depicts the Kafkaesque legal nightmare of the Soviet Union.

Mar 27 • Jeremy Fassler

The Moscow Diaries: "Who Censored Laura Palmer?"

Or: How the Russia's religious right protested a play which climaxed with a Twin Peaks homage

Mar 19 • Jeremy Fassler

The Six-Month Witch Hunt Ends: The 98th Academy Awards

Oscar season now finds the villain first, and finds the best second.

Mar 16 • Jeremy Fassler

The Moscow Diaries, Chapter 1: "The Victim"

Or: How I Got Blamed For the Worst Play I Ever Worked On

Mar 13 • Jeremy Fassler

20 Years Ago, My Classmates Would Have Voted for Crash.

You didn't need to poll the Academy to find out Crash would beat Brokeback Mountain. You just needed to poll my classmates.

Mar 5 • Jeremy Fassler

August 2025

Loving Hamilton, 10 Years Later

Calling it "cringe" shortchanges what makes it special.

Aug 6, 2025 • Jeremy Fassler

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