Word: eisenstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Days That Shook the World, heralded as another masterpiece from Amkino (Russian) studios, producers of Potemkin, turned out to be a brilliant, tiresome piece of Soviet propaganda. In an impressionistic manner not, as is commonly believed, originated by him, Director Eisenstein shows kaleidoscopic guns firing, statues falling, bottles breaking in superimposed shots the rapidity of which strains the eyes and makes them hard to watch. Hollywood directors, advised by intellectuals to learn their Eisenstein, would profit little from seeing, as they will not, this newsreel of the Russian revolution which lacks the most valuable feature that a newsreel can have...
...curious thing about Potemkin is that Director S. M. Eisenstein, striving religiously to make his film the drama of a group, almost permits one character to emerge as hero. Such an effect would have ruined the general scheme, yet so keenly does the need for individual enterprise make itself felt, in even a glorified crowd, that the proletarian artist must give it at least grudging recognition...