Word: eisenstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BASKETBALL HIGH SCORERS Name, House Goals Lubschansky Dunster 32 Stewart, Leverett 31 Burt, Eliot 25 Smith, Kirkland 19 Cordingley, Leverett 16 Foster, Kirkland 16 Jackson, Adams 16 Macgowan, Adams 16 McGinniss, Dunster 16 Ezell, Kirkland 15 Tonkonow, Lowell 15 Keith, Leverett 14 Eisenstein, Lowell 14 Lyford, Lowell...
Good shot: swarming vigilantes marching on two levels (across a high bridge and down a long flight of stairs) that seems to come straight out of famed Bolshevik Director Sergei Eisenstein's Potemkin...
Alexander Nevslcy (Mosfilm Studios) puts back into circulation famed Russian Director Sergei Eisenstein, after six unproductive years that followed his ill-starred trip to Hollywood in 1930-32. All Russian pictures are advertisements for the U.S.S.R. This one is no exception, but it shows, not the handiness of modern peasants with mowing machines, but the first faint stirrings of Russian social consciousness, circa 1242 A.D. Fortunately, for U. S. audiences, even this patriotic ferment occupies Director Eisenstein's attention only for a few minutes at the beginning of Alexander Nevsky. Thereafter he becomes intoxicated with the cinematic possibilities...
...panorama. If the Russo-German engagement in Alexander Nevsky bears no resemblance to the one actually fought at Lake Peipus on April 5, 1242, it is also like no battle ever before recorded on celluloid. For visual splendor, romantic nonsense and pure comic-strip flamboyance, the derring-do of Eisenstein's moujiks with battle-axes, boat hooks and wine pails has never been topped...
This sequence, rather than the concluding victory celebration, which can be construed as a warning to Hitler, probably caused Joseph Stalin to make his debut as a movie critic at the Moscow premiere of Alexander Nevsky last year. Dictator Stalin hit Eisenstein on the back, roared, "Sergei, you are a true Bolshevik...