Catskill park vlad yudin biography
Vlad Yudin is a Russian filmmaker....
Review: CATSKILL PARK ()
Jim Morazzini
In writer/director Vlad Yudin released GENERATION IRON, a documentary that is to modern bodybuilding what PUMPING IRON was to the era of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Born and raised in Central Russia, filmmaker Vlad Yudin grew up in Moscow before moving to New York where he would pursue his career in film.
He followed it up with several other non-fiction pieces on the sport and its competitors. So when I was offered a screener for CATSKILL PARK, I grabbed the chance to see it, despite my ambivalence for most things found footage.
This isn’t a new film, it bears a copyright date and was apparently held up due to unspecified issues.
While it doesn’t really affect the plot, it does explain some of the seemingly odd fashion and music choices we see in the film.
We start with the all too familiar text telling us of the mysterious origins of the footage we’re about to see.
CATSKILL PARK then gives us the standard found footage film opening as a camera moves around an office filming the various folk working there before heading out to Catskill Park and the film’s main plot.
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