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...vitally interested in the reflexes and workings, dissections, and explanations in Russian, of the brains of children, frogs, idiots, or syphiletics, "Mechanics of the Brain" is at best boring. Pudovkin's film records of Professor Ivan Pavlov's physiology research work on the reflex action of the brain, now shown to the public for the first time, should henceforth only be exhibited in biological and psychological laboratories...
Another cinema masterpiece out of the Russian studios has its first showing in Boston this week at the Fine Arts Theatre. The film, "Storm over Asia," directed by Vsevold Pudovkin, whose great production, "The End of St. Petersburg" will be remembered, is a tale of the racial revolution in 1918 which took place against the Occupation Forces on the Mongolian steppes...
...order, that the praise which must be showered on this production be tempered, it should be stated that it is not the equal of Pudovkin's earlier film. Only in the tremendous climax and several scattered moments does it attain the heights of the symphonic flow of visual imagery which was maintained through out "The End of St. Petersburg...
...Pudovkin, as usual, uses real tribesmen and takes the picture in their own country. Verbum sat, Scenery, photography, the stupidity and primitive living conditions of the people, the power, of irresistible forces, and all the possibilities of portraying the struggle of massed human beings, are used to the utmost...
...actor show as opposed to the mass-action of Potemkin, Ten Days that Shook the World, Old and New with the people's awakening centred in the phlegmatic, stupid, finally violent figure of the Mongol hunter. Valery Inkizhinov, a Mongol by blood, is a capable tool of Director Vsevolod Pudovkin in showing forth the brutal elementalism of his race through the medium of the duped Asiatic. Typical shots: Inkizhinov wrecking the general's headquarters; the drooling baby Lama at the Festival of the Masks gurgling merrily as a monk inducts his predecessor's soul into his flesh; the symbolism...