Word: eisenstein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, there is Potemkin, (1926), by far the most important of all these films. In it Sergei Eisenstein developed editing montage to its highest degree, brilliantly manipulated a cast without stars, developed a spirit of revolution on film. Several international polls of film critics have named this film about revolutionary Russia the greatest film of all time...
THURSDAY: Alexander Nevsky. (1938) Sergei Eisenstein's epic of 13th century warfare in Russia scarcely veils its gung-ho John Wayne-style plumping for Josef Stalin and his then-tough policy towards Hitler's Germany. CH.2...
...MONDAY: Eisenstein. A 1970 BBC profile of one of the world's all-time great film directors, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948). Includes clips from "Strike," "Potemkin," "October," and "Ivan the Terrible, Part II," Eisenstein's only color film. CH.2. 8 p.m. Color...
Screening Room. On the 75th birthday of acclaimed Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, Harvard professor Vladimir Petric, a noted expert on Eisenstein's films, discusses clips from "Ivan the Terrible," "Alexander Nevsky," "October," "General Line," and "Strike." CH. 5. 1:05 a.m. Color...
...Georges Clouzot wrote and directed this tragedy of Latin truckers working in a South American town run by American oil interests. Suspenseful and sometimes brutal, never sentimental. 1953, Janus Film Festival. Harvard Square's festival of eminent films including Jean Renoir's best (Rules of the Game) and Sergei Eisenstein's last (Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself...