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  I thought The General Line [1931] is the only movie Eisenstein had applied stills and added a graceful rendition to the Slide film list. But Bezhin Meadow [1937/1964] had reached its pinnacle of precision to uphold the new form of cinema in the art history. These two pairs of intertitles are enough for getting the thematic essence of Mr. Eisenstein Bezhin Meadow [1937/1964].   The production history and recreation of the film in the midst of Soviet sanctions and world war are as good as pivotal as its narrative and artistic formation and preservation. Are there any other movies whose are suffered such kind of blockage during its making? Maybe there are!   There was sharp censorial procedure to bring out the film that goes against the ruling power or majority feelings. Today I have come to know that Sudipto Sen’s The Kerala Story [2023] have been banned some states in India whereas Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kasmir Files [2022] had been applauded all over though bot...

  I have felt that I have not seen a film on screen but read a set of brief-brief stories spanning from the time at its infancy to the eternity. Was Eisenstein planning to make a film like Gabriel García Márquez wrote Cien años de soledad [1967].   I am more in pursuit of knowing the background history of making ¡Que viva México! [unfinished, 1932/1979] as much as of the foreground tale of Bezhin Meadow [unfinished, 1937/1964].     ¡Que viva México! [1932/1979] Да здравствует Мексика!  Sergei Eisenstein Russian, USSR ¡Que viva México! [1932/1979] Да здравствует Мексика!  Sergei Eisenstein Russian, USSR

  The lord denied me friendship”, Ivan pleaded to Fyodor not to leave him all alone. Ivan was a friend-sick as was Joseph Stalin. Though Stalin sponsored Ivan Part I, he deterred Ivan Part II [1958]. Therefore, it was completed in 1946 but released in 1958. Was it a propaganda movie like October [1928]. The second part is a broad extension of  The Great Loss of Anastasia  and the madness and solid determinism for great Russian nationalism, imperialism and patriotism.  The colored long sequences of feast dance and cathedral play are the only diversion in the film. The transition from Contemporary issues in Strike, Battleship Potemkin, October and The General Line and Bezhin Meadow [unfinished] to historical Alexander Nevsky and ended in Ivan Trilogy [part III incomplete] prove Eisenstein’s struggling conciliation between the authoritative pressure and his artistic self   Ivan the Terrible, Part II [1958] Иван Грозный 2-я серия Sergei Eisenstein Russian, ...