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...experimental side of things, the experiment in form, happened in the 20s with Eisenstein and the other Russians did a lot of experimenting. In the 60s, you did get a lot of experimentation, especially here in San Francisco with Bruce Connor and all those guys. But it was too far out of the mainstream. And in the end the foreign film industries wanted to do what America was doing. They wanted to have their movies seen all over the world, they wanted audiences to love them. And to do that, you can?t be too experimental, because most people aren...
...everyone. Still, I would have listed the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. THANKS FOR INCLUDING BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN; SOME READERS MIGHT COMPLAIN, BUT IT'S A GREAT FILM." Less impressed was Alexander Shectman of Jerusalem, who said, "My Russian patriotism was offended by the absence of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, and I was astonished to see that those of D.W. Griffith shared the same fate. And yet you included Leni Riefenstahl's documentary of the 1936 Olympics!" You can check out the list, send us your thoughts and vote for your own favorite films at time.com/100movies....
Cinema aficionados will recall what Kurosawa did with them in Throne of Blood. Probably they gave Eisenstein his idea for the Teutonic knights' helmets in the battle on the ice in Alexander Nevsky. Certainly they were the source for Darth Vader. Hence, if one were to pick a single exhibition not to miss in New York City this month, it would be "Spectacular Helmets of Japan: 16th-19th Century" at the Japan House Gallery...
...border-crossing elements: those of Benegal’s “working milieu.” Benegal listed a prodigious number of influences, ranging from American directors like Billy Wilder and John Ford to the French nouvelle vague and Italian Neo-Realists, from the works of Tarkofsky, Eisenstein and other Russian filmmakers—which were easiest to come by in his youth, he explained—to Kurosawa and, perhaps most importantly, Satyajit Ray, the director credited with founding the Indian “Parallel Cinema” of which Benegal is a self-proclaimed practitioner...
...border-crossing elements: those of Benegal’s “working milieu.” Benegal listed a prodigious number of influences, ranging from American directors like Billy Wilder and John Ford to the French nouvelle vague and Italian Neo-Realists, from the works of Tarkofsky, Eisenstein and other Russian filmmakers—which were easiest to come by in his youth, he explained—to Kurosawa and, perhaps most importantly, Satyajit Ray, the director credited with founding the Indian “Parallel Cinema” of which Benegal is a self-proclaimed practitioner...