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  1. Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. He was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).

  2. Sergei Eisenstein. Director: Ivan the Terrible, Part I. The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and then director. The Proletkult's director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, became a...

  3. 5 days ago · Sergei Eisenstein (born January 22, 1898, Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire—died February 11, 1948, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a Russian film director and theorist whose work includes the three film classics Battleship Potemkin (1925), Alexander Nevsky (1938), and Ivan the Terrible (released in two parts, 1944 and 1958).

  4. Feb 15, 2021 · Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet director and film theorist who was a pioneer in creating the cinematic language we use today. He was one of the first people to use montage and is known widely for his seminal silent film, Battleship Potemkin (1925). He's known as the father of montage theory.

  5. Sergei Eisenstein’s unique perspective on the role of film and editing, as artistic forms, leaves us with the desire to experiment and create meaning. And as filmmakers and academics continue to ponder and extrapolate additional meaning from his works, so too will we ponder the next cut when we sit down in front of a screen. Cited Sources. Eisenstein, Sergei.

  6. The cover of Sergei Eisenstein’s book of essays on film theory, Film Form, published 1949 Image courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Propaganda as art. After dabbling in theatre, Eisenstein created his first feature length film in 1925, Strike, quickly followed by the revolutionary propaganda film, Battleship Potemkin, which would go on to be his most renowned film due to his use of montage and editing.He approached the execution of the film just like the tragedy in real life, unfolding ...

  7. Sergei Eisenstein. Director: Ivan the Terrible, Part I. The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and then director. The Proletkult's director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, became a...

  8. Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. He was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958). In its 2012 decennial poll, the magazine Sight & Sound named his Battleship ...

  9. Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage." He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1927), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958). His work profoundly influenced early filmmakers owing to his innovative use of and writings about montage.

  10. Jan 23, 2018 · The best – or perhaps, the only – place to start with Sergei Eisenstein is 1925’s Battleship Potemkin. Originally banned in the UK due to the perceived power of its message, Eisenstein’s second feature film is a revolutionary epic in more ways than one. Following a theatrical five-act dramatic structure, its story follows the mutiny of ...

  11. Dec 14, 2017 · Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) is known to film history as a “revolutionary Russian director”, a title justified by his contributions to the creation of the foundational myth of the Soviet State through his films Stachka (Strike, 1924), Bronenosets Potemkin (Battleship Potemkin, 1925) and Oktyabr (October, 1927).

  12. Jan 28, 2013 · Sergei Eisenstein (Sergei Mikhailovich Eizenshtein, b. Riga, Latvia, 1898–d. Moscow, 1948) remains one of the most celebrated filmmakers and theorists in the history of cinema. He achieved this status internationally during his lifetime, and since his death the overall volume of critical and theoretical writing exploring his work, life, and legacy is surpassed only by that on Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.

  13. Eisenstein's life was rich in unexpected turns and temptations. As a Soviet artist he encountered the European bohème and the Hollywood machine, he learned to live under Stalin—in a mix of prohibition, seduction, fear, and conformity. In his art—for Eisenstein the true reality and only necessity—he hits upon the wounds of the century ...

  14. This list contains films by Russian writer/director Sergei Eisenstein. Notes: #1: Dnevnik Glumova (1923) and Romance Sentimentale (1930) are short films. #2: ¡Que Viva México! (1932) is produced in Mexico and Romance Sentimentale (1930) is produced in France. All other films are produced in USSR. #3: ¡Que Viva México! (1932) was released many times, but the supposed closest version to Einstein's vision is one from 1979. #4: Bezhin Lug (1937) was supposed to be a feature, but was never ...

  15. Jun 11, 2018 · EISENSTEIN, SERGEI MIKHAILOVICH (1898–1948), Russian film director, son of a Jewish father who converted to Christianity and a non-Jewish mother. Eisenstein's work, revolutionary both in technique and in subject matter, was a major contribution to the modern art of the cinema.

  16. Feb 12, 2004 · Sergei Eisenstein. b. January 23,1898, Riga, Latvia. d. February 11, 1948, Moscow, USSR. With Eisenstein, you confront a demonic, baroque visual theatricality, helplessly adhering to the confused theories of his writing on film. And he was quickly in decline…There are those who still acclaim him, but his influence is now very hard to detect.

  17. Jan 22, 2018 · Sergei Eisenstein was born on January 22, 1898 at Riga in Russian Empire. His father Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein was an architect and his mother Julia Ivanovna Konetskaya was the daughter of a ...

  18. Jan 22, 2018 · Google is paying tribute to "the father of the montage." On Monday, Google's search logo honored Sergei Eisenstein, a Soviet film director and artist born on this day 120 years ago. The doodle ...

  19. 2. Eisenstein was ‘The Father of Montage’. Sergei Eisenstein at the cutting table.1925. Reproduction. Sputnik. Eisenstein is known as the inventor of the “intellectual montage” and ...

  20. Jan 22, 2018 · The doodle also shows a cartoon of a Sergei Eisenstein lookalike, holding a film roll and a scissors depicting a cut or an edit. His first full-length feature film, 'Strike' released in 1925. Some of his other acclaimed works include 'Battleship Potemkin’, and ‘The General Line’. While his work was widely appreciated, Eisenstein’s structural issues in his films such as camera angles, crowd movements, and montage brought him under fire from the Soviet film community, forcing him to ...

  21. www.theyshootpictures.com › eisensteinsergeiTSPDT - Sergei Eisenstein

    Sergei Eisenstein "The intellectual and expressive possibilities revealed by Strike , Battleship Potemkin , and October and the vast culture and intelligence he brought to filmmaking, film teaching and the problems of aesthetic theory in the cinema establish him firmly as one of the incontestable great masters of the art."

  22. Mar 16, 2010 · Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948; Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988, ed. and tr. Publication date 1949 Topics Motion pictures Publisher New York, Harcourt, Brace Collection internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary ... -- Dickens, Griffith, and the film today. -- Appendix A.: A statement on the sound-film by Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Alexandrov. -- Appendix B. : Notes from a director's laboratory Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-03-16 17:58:36 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA115119 ...

  23. liams, by Sergei Bertensson, Richard Collins, Robert Payne, and other friends. John Winge made the new translation from Eisenstein's German manuscript (lent by the Museum of Modem Art Film Library) of "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form," and the frames chosen by Eisenstein for its illus­ tration were prepared for reproduction here by Irving ...