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What greater contrast could there be to Bicycle Thief than Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, Part I? Semi mythical, heavily "artistic," and at several steps removed from experience, Ivan (1945) appeals to the eye almost exclusively. The most useful analogy for describing this film is that of grand opera. Just as opera subordinates everything to music, Eisenstein suspends verisimilitude and dramatic intensity to give full play to the carefully arranged, visual sequences of this opera of design...
...movie opens with a perfectly framed view of Ivan's crown. The camera lingers on this rich still-life and then retreats to take in another balanced, framed shot of the cathedral of Moscow. Later on, at a wedding banquet, Eisenstein sights down the table as the whole party toasts Ivan. With Rockette-like precision all the goblets rise and stop for a moment, just long enough so that we see all twenty of them lined up evenly in two rows...
...doubt about it now: Japan's Akira Kurosawa must be numbered with Sergei Eisenstein and D. W. Griffith among the supreme creators of cinema. Rashomon (1952) introduced him to U.S. audiences as a powerful ironist. The Magnificent Seven (1956) demonstrated his mastery of movies as pure movement. Ikiru (1960), one of the screen's great spiritual documents, revealed him as a moralist both passionate and profound. Throne of Blood, a resetting of Macbeth among the clanking thanes and brutish politics of 16th century Japan, is a visual descent into the hell of greed and superstition, into the gibbering...
...Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will initiate 11 new members at 9 a.m. this morning in Agassix. They are Rosemary Faulkner, Mai B. Milk, Hester Eisenstein, Victoria Spurgeon, Myra Lakoff, Anne B. Thompson, Mrs. Pamela Myrick Staley Herr, Sarah Fuller, Nancy Decker, Sara Sweezy, and Mary Rhinelander Morgan...
...local Eisenstein behind these antics, which include a brilliant parody of the Dance of Death scene from Bergman's "Seventh Seal," is Paul Morgan, a senior, who started it all in January with an idea and a $50 shoestring...