1944: Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II (Sergei Eisenstein) Andrew Grossman December 2017 100 Years of Soviet Cinema By the time Sergei Eisenstein completed Ivan Groznyy (Ivan the Terrible Part I) in 1944, the widespread experimentalism that had characterised the Soviet arts of the 1920s was a distant, long-suppressed memory....
The “High Sign” Andrew Grossman September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline’s The “High Sign” (1921) is not only among Keaton’s most breathlessly inventive two-reelers – it is also, along with his nearly nihilistic Cops (1922), among his most subversive, p...
The Dark Glow of the Mountains Andrew Grossman May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film The image of the Olympian mountain – the towering intermediary between the physical and spiritual realms – has long loomed as an icon and motif in Germanic culture. Sub-heavenly summits have served as perches o...
Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II Andrew Grossman March 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film By the time Sergei Eisenstein completed Ivan Groznyy (Ivan the Terrible Part I) in 1944, the widespread experimentalism that had characterised the Soviet arts of the 1920s was a distant, long-suppressed memory....
The Belated Auteurism of Johnnie To Andrew Grossman February 2001 Contemporary Asian Cinema From genre thrashing to genre deconstruction; an overview of this prolific Hong Kong filmmaker.
