Aleksandr Nevskiy (Alexander Nevsky) is not central to Eisenstein’s theory of montage and is not considered to be one of his most important works, at least critically. Yet the film exhibits a powerful folkloric spirit in its single-minded, patriotic call to unity in resisting German invasion. Alexander Nevsky is widely celebrated for its astounding 30-minute [...]
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Greg Dolgopolov is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Articles by Greg Dolgopolov:
Contemporary Australian cinema has lost any sense of spontaneity or carnivalesque excess in the prison house of worthiness and realism. Aside from genre films, there are now few moments of bedlam, scatological celebration or savage unbridled satire.One of the greatest moments of Australian cinematic mayhem is the fire at the BBC studios in the penultimate [...]
1988 was a high point in the cultural transformations that exploded under perestroika. The films produced under these new conditions bore the malignant fruits of glasnost combined with the promise of fresh possibilities, a new cinematic language, new values and hitherto unseen characters and narratives. These films highlighted the moral collapse and unrepressed sexuality of [...]
Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne vyshla zamuzh (Asya’s Happiness) is a seminal film, a film that suffered numerous title changes and edits by edict. It is a rediscovered classic that was shelved for 20 years and now stands as a testament to the paranoid absurdity of Soviet censorship. It is a film that [...]
Ruslan and Ludmila/Ruslan i Lyudmila (USSR 1972 149 mins) Prod Co: Mosfilm Dir: Alexander Ptushko Scr: Alexander Ptushko, adapted from Alexander Pushkin Phot: I. Gelein, V. Zakharov SFX: I. Felitsyn, E. Malikov, P. Safonov Mus: Tikhon Khreinikov Cast: Valeri Kozinets, Natalya Petrova, Andrei Abrikosov, Vladimir Fyodorov, Mariya Kapnist Russian fantasy is entrenched in national utopian [...]
November 18, 2005 School of Media, Film & Theatre, University of New South Wales Censorship, lepers, allegory, half-made cinema, self-conscious naivety, neo neo-realism, national cinephilia, ellipses, existential voids, co-productions and childhood memories of Walt Disney after the revolution. These were only some of the themes at the Imaging Iran Symposium at University of NSW. Surprisingly [...]
