By the time Sergei Eisenstein completed Ivan Groznyy (Ivan the Terrible Part I) in 1944, the widespread experimentalism that had characterised the Sov...
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 ...
Boris Barnet’s Dom na Trubnoi, Mezhrabpom-Rus (The House on Trubnaya, 1928) is a masterpiece of Soviet silent cinema. It is a delightful comedy of man...
The first solo effort by Boris Barnet, Devushka s korobkoy (The Girl with the Hatbox) opened during a pinnacle year for silent cinema. Called “annus m...
In 1926, the October Revolution Jubilee Committee pulled Sergei Eisenstein, Grigorii Aleksandrov, and cameraman Eduard Tisse away from Generalnaia Lin...
A Portrait of an Era: Ilich’s Gate and I Am Twenty (Marlen Khutsiev, 1962 and 1965)
At a March 1963 meeting with the creative intelligentsia, Nikita ...
Nesting Figures of the Past: The Legend of Suram Fortress (Sergei Parajanov, 1984)
The Georgian legend about a youth bricked up alive in the wall of ...
“A Bomb into the Lap of Mother Russia”: Little Vera (Vasiliy Pichul, 1988)
In May 1989, an issue of the American magazine Playboy caused a furore in ...
