[3][5] During the Soviet period Iskusstvo Kino was the official magazine for cinema industry in the country.

[10] American scholar Vladimir Padunov contributed to the eightieth anniversary issue of the magazine.

[14] 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 2022, Dolin was proclaimed a foreign agent by Russian officials for political dissent and fled the country.