Word: artkino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is gratifying, since the name, "Artkino" prefixed to a picture too often has portended a succession of monolithic protagonists, striking heroic stances and delivering themselves of Messages. "The Stone Flower," though, is a straight-out, uncomplicated fantasy about a young artisan who, comprehending that stone has a soul, seeks to create in this medium a flower more alive than the ephemeral real thing. The plot traces his wanderings in a fairy kingdom, and the effects of his dream on his everyday life. The wildly beautiful technicolor ("filmed," the program confides, "by a secret process") breathes a sort of glory...
Ivan the Terrible (Artkino) is Part I of a three-part biography of Russia's first Czar (1530-84). It was written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein, one of the few men of genius who have made moving pictures. It is a great change and, many critics will feel, a great comedown from Eisenstein's early films, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, Old & New. Nonetheless it is obviously, and in every frame, the work of a great creative intelligence...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino's tale of slave labor in Germany; TIME, Sept...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino's tale of slave labor in Germany; TIME, Sept...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino's tale of slave labor in Germany; TIME, Sept...