Word: dubshenko
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Russian movies in the heyday of Eisenstein, Podovkin, and Dubshenko were aesthetic masterpieces. Each single shot would have made a still photograph magnificent in its own right. But the beauty of these films is so striking that it is occasionally distracting. At some point between then and now, the Russians learned to use the aesthetic genius of the early movies in a more natural way, without degenerating into the general conventionality of Soviet painting, or the sterility of most of socialist realism. A Summer to Remember includes its quota of trite sequences, but for the most part it uses inspired...
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