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...revolution--it changed the art of making motion pictures and watching them. It was shocking in form and substance, nobody had created anything quite like it before, and it remains probably the most stirring work of the last half-century. "New ideas can come only from new social forms." Eisenstein wrote in the twenties. "So it is with film art, which comes about only after a big social change. At present America and Europe seem to be groping about for something they cannot find. That is why they are using our ideas." There have been other movies which have understood...
...Zhivago. Now we're back to the Russian Revolution again. If this mammoth, loud, soppy dinosaur was shrunk down to its value as cinema (not cinerama) it would fit in Eisenstein's left nostril, who would no doubt, blow it out as quickly as he could...
...When Bacon was first talked of in England 25 years ago, his images of ectoplastic businessmen and screaming Popes, based on such then unlikely-sounding sources as pioneer Cameraman Eadweard Muybridge's serial photographs of human and animal motion, a textbook on radiology, stills from Russian Director Sergei Eisenstein's movies, and an exquisitely colored handbook on diseases of the mouth, were seen as a Guignol of existential dread. Indeed, the scariness of Bacon prevented many people from experiencing his work aesthetically: the scream on the Pope, like the smile on the Cheshire cat, remained while the rest...
...shallowness of the movie notwithstanding, there is no denying Eisenstein's cinematic talent. His camera re-creates battle scenes, mass meetings, and torch-lit parades with a realism unusual in "cast of thousands" films...
...striking side element of Alexander Nevsky is the hostile depiction of Catholicism, which Eisenstein accomplishes by integrating Catholic ceremony with German preparations for battle. It would seem that this is a fair reflection of Stalin's strong anti-Catholic Church line, which terminated in 1941 with the Anglo-American-Soviet alliance...