Sergei Eisenstein -- c/d?

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Well, it is the Winter Palace.

Haven't seen nearly as much Eisenstein as I should have, but I actually like Alexander Nevsky a slight bit more than Battleship Potemkin. The battle scene is just...mwah!

Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 21 August 2003 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

i like the buxom viking maidens in that one.

amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 21 August 2003 20:46 (twenty years ago) link

I've seen clips of the battle scene in Alexander Nevsky. it does look good.

the local vid library has Ivan The Terrible on DVD... it seems to be all about how Ivan The Terrible is actually G*R*A*T*E in a hymn-to-Stalin kind of way.

DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:18 (twenty years ago) link

well arguably the second "Ivan" film is a critique of Stalin. the whole film is about the paranoia that comes with power, and the death meted out as a result--it makes Ivan into a simultaneously grotesque and tragic figure. anyway the "Ivan" films are the strangest films you will ever see, I'm confident. no way can they be reduced to either Stalinist paen *or* or Stalinist critique.

amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

sehr interessant

DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 24 August 2003 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

CLASSIC, if even for Ivan the Terrible alone. I'm with amateurist on this one. The two films are without peer.

Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 August 2003 05:13 (twenty years ago) link

seven years pass...

Thanks!

Another Muzak from a Diffident Lichen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 June 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link

six years pass...

It's pretty wry when Prince Nevsky says "it's better to die than to leave your homeland" considering Eisenstein had only returned a couple years before from jaunts in Mexico, Europe and America.

carrotless, turnip-pocketed (fionnland), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link


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