Anton Dolin (film critic)

Anton Dolin is a son of a Soviet poet Veronika Dolina and Vladimir Vorobyov. He graduated from Moscow State University (Faculty of Philology) in 1997 as a Russian literature teacher. In 2000, he graduated from the doctorate of Gorky Institute of World Literature and wrote a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences on the topic "The history of the Soviet fairy-tale novel", which he eventually did not defend.[2]

He has worked as a host for the Echo of Moscow from 1997 to 2003 and for Radio Mayak from 2007 to 2019.[3] He has also worked for such newspapers and magazines as Moskovskiye Novosti (2006—2007), Expert (2006—2013), The New Times (2008—2017), Vedomosti (2011—2014), Gazeta.Ru (2012—2013), Afisha (2013—2017), and Meduza (since 2017).[4] He was the regular film reviewer of the Vesti FM from 2010 to 2019, and then of the Silver Rain Radio. In 2012 Dolin has joined the staff of the Evening Urgant late-night show as a host of the movie section. In 2020, he was fired from Channel One for publishing a negative review on Andrei Kravchuk's Union of Salvation for Meduza.[5][6]

In 2017 Anton Dolin became the editor-in-chief of the Iskusstvo Kino movie magazine. In 2021 he started his own YouTube channel Radio Dolin, supported by Meduza.[7] He is the co-host of Galina Yuzefovich's podcast Book bazaar (Russian: Книжный базар, Knizhny bazar) since 2021.

Dolin claims to be 'a follower of democracy and liberalism'. He supports Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny despite the fact that there was a collision between them over the dual citizenship of Kremlin-linked journalist Sergey Brilev.[8]

In 2013, Dolin opposed the Russian gay propaganda law and expressed support to the Russian LGBT community.[9] In 2014, he supported Euromaidan and criticized Russian government for interfering the internal affairs of Ukraine.[10] In September 2020, Dolin supported the Belarusian protests.

He is also a member of the public council of the Russian Jewish Congress.[11]

Dolin chose following movies for the Sight & Sound's 2012 survey on the greatest films in history:[12]

• Eraserhead by David Lynch
• The Idiots by Lars von Trier
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom by Steven Spielberg
• Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky
• My Friend Ivan Lapshin by Aleksei German
• The Word by Carl Theodor Dreyer
• The Phantom of Liberty by Luis Buñuel
• Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock
• The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman
• The Nibelungs by Fritz Lang

Anton Dolin calls Manoel de Oliveira his favourite film director and Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Luigi Nono his favourite composers.[13] In 2020 he has also mentioned The Beatles as his favourite music band.[14]