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...just a big, slick, commercial horse opera. The film, to be sure, is meticulously produced, directed, acted and "dited, and it is often startlingly beautiful to see-there is a sequence, photographed in Death Valley, that rivals in pure malign geology the finest frames of Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder over Mexico. Nevertheless, many spectators will wish that a little less of the beauty had been created by God and a little more by Brando, and others may realize that, if it were less pretentious. Jacks would be easier to recognize as. on the whole, a dang good shoot...
Instead of doing this, the filmmakers have contented themselves with a series of unnatural color effects, that are clearly derived from the color sequences of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, Part 2, but lack his incisive organization and satiric overtones...
...group of books which made clear years ago the principles of the art of cinema. Rene Clair said that "Nothing essential has been added to the art of the motion picture since Griffith": it is equally true that little important has been added to film theory since Pudovkin, and Eisenstein's Film Form and The Film Sense. (Raymond Spottiswoode's books might be included if they were not derivative from Pudovkin and Eisenstein.) I have little to say about it, except to recommend it. It is essential reading for anyone interested in films, and for such persons the only thing...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. Ivan is still terrible, but resembles his historical self less than he resembles Joseph Stalin-which was the intent of the late director Sergei Eisenstein...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. Ivan is still terrible, but resembles his historical self less than he resembles Joseph Stalin-which was the conscious intent of the late director Sergei Eisenstein...