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Sergei Eisenstein, the father of Russian cinema, is best known for his theory of film-as-montage. He positioned himself as a manipulator of space and time whose role it was to contribute to the foundation of a new Russia after the revolution of 1917: the end of czarism, the beginning of communism...
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...DIED. DANIEL TOSCAN DU PLANTIER, 61, French film producer and president of the film promotion group Unifrance, of a heart attack while attending the Berlin Film Festival; in Berlin. Known as a tireless ambassador for the French film industry, Toscan du Plantier once said: "France is the paradise of cinema; its only fault is that it's too small...
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...quintessential documentary on red-neck Americana and its political basis has turned more heads in curiosity than a gun show in Harvard Square would. Criticized for its self-indulgence and questionable objectivity, Bowling for Columbine is nonetheless a dazzling example of the power of politically charged cinema. Probably the most talked-about film of the year, Columbine effectively condenses nearly a decade of American history into a digestible, moving meditation on the sources of American gun violence. That’s no small feat. Bowling for Columbine screens...