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...Moscow hospital bed, Russia's Dionysian cinema genius Sergei Eisenstein rolled and roared with joy. The cause of his delight was the medical opinion that he was dead. He had died, according to doctors, during his celebration of the completion of Part II of his three-part chef-d'oeuvre, Ivan the Terrible. Dancing with a young girl had been too much for his heart and he had collapsed...
Prokofiev: "Alexander Nevsky" Cantata (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, Jennie Tourel and the Westminster Choir; Columbia, 10 sides). Russia's greatest living composer shuttles from Gregorian chants to jazzy brass fanfares in this expanded, concert-hall version of his score for a Sergei Eisenstein film. Performance: good...
...Mexican village of Santiago and its fight against typhoid fever. Squalid ignorance is not the sort of thing Hollywood can treat sympathetically, as a rule, but a small outfit has presented the conflict between the old and new in a manner that rivals the job S. M. Eisenstein, the Russian director, did in the same area in 1933 with his "Time...
...Mosfilm) is the most ambitious Soviet fiction film to reach the U.S. since the war began. It is not to be compared with the dynamitic masterpieces of Eisenstein or Dovzhenko; but even in decline the Russians can show the world a thing or two about movies...
...Eisenstein's 16th century Tsar Ivan is portrayed differently. He is called "Ivan the Good...