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Thunder Over Mexico (Upton Sinclair) is a feature length null picture whittled out of the gigantic 243,000-ft. opus which Director Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein made in Mexico over two years ago. In silent form with a musical accompaniment, it investigates a minor miscarriage of social justice on a Mexican hacienda toward the end of the last century. A peon and his fiancee go to their ranch owner for permission to marry. One of the hacendado's guests rapes the girl. The peon strikes her assaulter, then tries with four friends to retrieve the girl from a tower into...
Based on the culmination of centuries' growth of the spirit of self consciousness in the Russian people with the mutiny of the crew of the armored cruiser Prince Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein's "Potemkin," now showing at the Fine Arts Theatre, is a high-strung, example of the possibilities of the silent film. Director Eisenstein's masterful use of highly dramatical material, although artistically well done in parts, is marred by his overlooking some of the fundamentals of photography. While a large part of the greatness of this film rests on the clever use of unusual and striking pictorial effects...
According to present standards, the acting is overdone; anger is portrayed by swelling of the bosom, stamping of the feet, and vigorous twirling of the moustache, which may be all right for the movies, but is strange to Harvard Square. In spite of that, however, Eisenstein's utilizing water scenes, like a mountain stream immediately after the breaking up of a log jam, the pounding of surf over a breakwater, or the moon rising through ships' rigging over the mist of motionless, oily seas, as symbolic of the feeling of the Russian peasantry, gives the picture an appeal...
Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein, greatest of Soviet cinema directors, returned from two years in Hollywood and Mexico last spring, found to his consternation that he could no longer make serious films such as The Armoured Cruiser, Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World. Instead, last week Comrade Eisenstein was filming belly laughs...
...Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga, son of a civil engineer, in 1898. When the Revolution started, he was 19. He enlisted in the engineering corps. After the War, he joined the Protecult, first Russian workers' theatre. His first assignment was Jack London's Mexicalia. In 1924 he completed his first cinema. Strike. Later, his pictures The Armored Cruiser Potemkin and Ten Days that Shook the World, photographically the most brilliant cinemas ever made, attracted the attention of Producer Jesse Lasky who gave fuzzy-haired, garrulous Director Eisenstein his Paramount contract, the world nothing...