Iskusstvo Kino

Iskusstvo Kino (Russian: Искусство кино, Film Art) was a film magazine published in Moscow, Russia. It was one of the earliest magazines in Europe which specialize on film theory and review alongside the British magazine Sight & Sound and the French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. It was a print publication between 1931 and 2023.

History and profile
The magazine was established in 1931. Its original title was Proletarskoe kino which was used for one year between 1931 and 1932. Then the magazine was renamed as Sovetskoe kino in 1933 and was published under this title until 1935. Its headquarters was in Moscow.

The magazine was published on a monthly basis from its start in 1931 to 1941. Following its temporary closure during World War II it was relaunched in 1945 and appeared irregularly between 1945 and 1947. After that it came out bi-monthly from 1947 to 1951. From 1952 it was published monthly.

During the Soviet period Iskusstvo Kino was the official magazine for cinema industry in the country. The magazine included the editorials by the leading Communist Party officials. At the same time it argued that films should meet the demands by public. From 1963 the magazine and another film magazine Soviet Screen began to be published newly founded state-funded company Goskino, which was responsible body for the coordination of film production and distribution in the Soviet Union.

The magazine covers articles on film theory and film reviews. American scholar Vladimir Padunov contributed to the eightieth anniversary issue of the magazine. In the 1960s Valerii Golovskoi was the editor.

During the 1980s Iskusstvo Kino had a print run of 50,000 copies, while the magazine sold 2,000–3,000 copies in the 1990s. In 2004 the magazine sold 5,000 copies.

Daniil Dondurey was among magazine's editors. He was succeeded by Anton Dolin in 2017, who raised a crowdfunding campaign for the magazine that gathered 3 million rubles. In 2020, Cinema Foundation of Russia refused to sponsor the magazine, a decision Dolin considered a retaliation for his critical reviews of the Foundation-sponsored films. In 2021, Iskusstvo Kino was crowdfunded again, raising 5 mln rub. In 2022, Dolin was proclaimed a foreign agent by Russian officials for political dissent and fled the country. The magazine ceased publication in May 2023 and became an online magazine.

The magazine was archived by East View Information Services, Inc. based in Minneapolis.

The editors

 * Ivan Pyryev (1946)
 * Nikolai Lebedev (1947–1949)
 * Dmitri Eryomin (1949–1951)
 * Vitaly Zhdan (1951–1956)
 * Lyudmila Pogozheva (1956–1969)
 * Yevgeny Surkov (1969–1982)
 * Armen Medvedev (1982–1984)
 * Yuri Cherepanov (1984–1986)
 * Konstantin Shcherbakov (1987–1992)
 * Daniil Dondurey (1993–2017)
 * Anton Dolin (2017–2022)
 * Stanislav Dedinsky (2022)
 * Nikita Kartsev (2023–present)