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Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's contrived but lush portrait of a power-mad paranoiac, made while Stalin was still alive but only recently released by the Russian government...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's strange, sinister, grand-operatic allegory of the Stalin era (see below...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars (Janus Films). Russia's Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) has been described as the Michelangelo of the cinema. In the '20s, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World and Old and New established him as the film's greatest master of vast composition and dynamic form. In 1943, in the midst of World War II, he started work on a huge film chronicle of the reign of Ivan the Terrible. For Part 1, which was shown in the U.S. (TIME, April 14, 1947), Eisenstein won a Stalin Prize...
...Eisenstein's Ivan (Nikolai Cherkassov) bears little resemblance to the historical figure. According to some historical ac counts, Ivan IV of Russia (1530-84) was a psychopathic sadist who slaughtered thousands of Russians, gleefully assisted at the torture of his enemies, and mur dered his own son in a blind rage. Eisen stein's Ivan is frankly intended to repre sent Stalin, who admired Ivan as the founder of the Russian state, and liked to think he was "terrible" only because he had to be. Eisenstein therefore dutifully whitewashes the brute. But the whitewash is spread so thin...
...Brattle has some preferences, however, which seem strange to its audience--notably an affection for German pictures, for old Cary Grant films, for the early Eisenstein movies, and for period pieces like "Earrings of Madame De" which appeal to a rather specalized taste for the baroque and the leisurely in movie-making...