Word: eisenstein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Love comes from the Soviet Union, not France, and that single fact casts the film in a startling light. It isn't often that the Soviets export movies that aim to be lyrical, sentimental and commercial. One could sooner imagine Universal Pictures releasing a musical remake of Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky-with or without Sensurround...
...Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky is, unfortunately, a tedious, though visually beautiful film by a great director. Alexander Nevsky is a patriotic Russian prince of the fifteenth century who drives out the Teutonic Knights, and the whole film is a transparent Russian nationalist allegory for the Second World War consisting almost entirely of battle scenes. For the first twenty minutes the sight of these elaborately armored and cross bedecked knights fighting in the snow seems breathtaking, but the effect soon wears off and cannot sustain the last two hours. Eisenstein made this film to please Stalin, making it possible...
FOURTH PARADOX: Having made what amounts to an art-film spectacle-something few directors since Griffith and Eisenstein have brought off-Kubrick now requires that his backers go out and sell the damned thing. Because of distribution and promotion costs, the film must gross at least $30 million to make a profit. Kubrick has his own ideas about how to proceed: a tasteful ad campaign, a limited-release pattern permitting good word of mouth to build, saturation bookings timed to coincide with the Academy Award nominations that the director and studio believe are inevitable. Warner salesmen wish they had something...
...social havoc wreaked by the Napoleonic War. Pipes said he is concerned with institutions, not with foreign policies. Finally, Pipes leaves a large hole where the worker should be. Although eighty per cent of the country was rural at the time of the 1917 revolution, those battered faces in Eisenstein's cities had been telling the authorities they were hungry for a long time...
Like Sergei Eisenstein's film classic-the score is based largely on Prokofiev's music for that movie-the ballet is an episodic, ponderously romanticized narrative about Czar Ivan IV. A madman and a tyrant, Ivan fought the feudal boyar nobles as well as invading enemies and managed to unite Russia during the 16th century. There are scenes evoking his struggle with the nobles, lyrical moments of happiness with his first wife, Anastasia, plotting by the boyars and the duplicitous Prince Kurbsky, who tries to destroy Ivan by poisoning his queen. After her death, the Czar...