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Troell has also rediscovered some commonsense film knowledge with which the best filmmakers have always worked and which even most critics have forgotten. Stylization in film form is useful only if it is sustained by a complex narrative (Vigo and Eisenstein knew this. Anderson and Kubrick don't. When deliberately artificial means find their way into the telling of a film story which is rooted in veristic detail (as in lesser New Wave films, or those by such American ex-TV directors as John Frankenheimer and Sidney Lumet), the result is chaos. The film medium, integrating elements of every...
Potemkin--The old Eisenstein warhorse, still moving, still frightfully well-edited...
...What's Up Doc? It is Bogdanovich's homage to Hollywood, imitation screwball comedy that tries to distill forty years of American farce into ninety minutes. The acknowledged model is Hawks's Bringing Up Baby, but influence, allusion and satire run infinitely wider--from D.W. Griffith to Bugs Bunny. Eisenstein to Erich Segal to Bogart. It is a movie made out of movies, and right from the opening credits presented as pages in a storybook. Bogdanovich wrings every cliche to its uttermost. Every gag, every twist of plot, has been aged in a thousand earlier uses...
...Films, D.W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln" (the complete version, 87 mins.: American, 1930) and Eisenstein's "The General Line" (Russian, 1927). Wed., March 29, Kirkland House Dining Hall. "Lincoln" 8 p.m.: "General Line...
Ivan the Terrible (part one) Sergei Eisenstein's classic film about Czar Ivan IV. 8:30, Feb. 25. Chan...