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...scandalous masterpiece that is one of the few great novels of the century, he consciously employed the techniques of cinema: long shot, closeup, flashback, dissolve, montage. The cinematic character of the novel was excitedly recognized by moviemakers, and down the years some of the best-among them Sergei Eisenstein and John Huston-have unsuccessfully undertaken the prodigious labor of getting Ulysses off the page and onto the screen...
Like most Godard movies, Masculine Feminine is hard to watch and hard to stop watching. Time and again Godard shows that he is a great bad director. Great because he is superbly endowed with what Sergei Eisenstein called "the film sense," bad because he is so painfully lacking in common sense...
...Eisenstein's "Ten Days that Shook the World," and Jean Vigo's "Zero for Conduct...
...Among those who perished were my close friends, and nobody would succeed in convincing me that they were traitors. Sergei Eisenstein [the famous Soviet movie director] told me of his meetings with Stalin, who spoke of the necessity to extol Ivan the Terrible and added that Peter the Great didn't cut off enough heads." Summing up his thoughts about Stalin, Ehrenburg says: "If he just read the list of all his victims, he would not have been able to do anything else...
...Eisenstein followed a complicated color scheme, attempting to define and use the emotional associations of particular colors. The color in Part II looks convincingly abstracted from reality due mainly to the crude chemistry of early Soviet color film. Sitting through Ivan requires patience...