Hello, my name is Justin the Clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan and you're listening to the

Important Cinema Club and today we are discussing Andre Conchalofsky, director of Tango and Cash.

Cash and tango. All right, so just off the top, here is why we're interested in

Andre Conchalovsky. Tango and Cash. Here is why we're doing this episode. It's because this is a

director whose career went from the Soviet Union to Hollywood, a man who started his career

with Andre Tarkovsky and later directed Tango and Cash. And is still directing films basically to this day.

He's 88 years old.

He went back to Russia and he is still making movies there.

And I am fascinated by you never hear anyone bring him up as a director of interest.

Well, he first kind of came across.

What metaphor am I looking for?

My purview, his name first became known to me,

not for Tango and Cash, not even for Runaway Train, but for in, I think, the year 2010, the Nutcracker

in 3D. Oh, yeah, Nutcracker 3D. And that is when I first learned that, yes, a man who started

with Tarkovsky, later made Tango

and Cash, was now all of a sudden out with an inexplicable $120 million adaptation.

His passion project.

Yeah, an adaptation of The Nutcracker starring Nathan Lane and John Chituro.

Now, that film starts with a title card for a Russian bank, and I'm like, ah, money laundering.

This is what this is. Yes, and first what was good about it was they took the Nutcracker and they added lyrics to it.

Do you remember Nathan Lane was in that movie as L. Fanning's uncle, Albert Einstein?

So, and there was an early song like, my theory is relativity. Everything is relative.

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