Sergei Eisenstein: Films That Shook the World
Sergei Eisenstein: Films That Shook the World
February 9–April 21, 2018
This major retrospective celebrates one of cinema’s most pioneering and influential figures, whose theory of montage shaped the way films are made and understood.
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Alexander Nevsky
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Battleship Potemkin
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Strike
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October
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
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Friday, February 9 1:30 PMView DetailsA panel of visiting scholars—all experts in the field of early Russian and Soviet cinema—joins Moscow-based scholar and archivist Peter Bagrov for this program of rare shorts and excerpts from the BAMPFA Soviet Cinema Collection.
Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein
USSR, 1925BAMPFA Collection
Friday, February 9 7 PMIntroduction by Peter Bagrov; Judith Rosenberg on PianoView DetailsEisenstein’s classic can be appreciated for “not only the perfection of its form, but the humanitarianism and enthusiasm that impregnated its revolutionary subject” (Georges Sadoul).
Alexander Nevsky
Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasiliev
USSR, 1938Film to Table dinner follows the February 10 screening
Saturday, February 10 4:30 PMPeter Bagrov in Person (February 10 screening only)View DetailsEisenstein’s first completed sound film has a score by Sergei Prokofiev to propel its tale of a thirteenth-century hero confronting foreign invaders.
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Sergei Eisenstein
USSR, 1944Sunday, February 11 2 PMPeter Bagrov in Person (February 11 screening only)View DetailsIn sixteenth-century Moscow, the newly crowned Czar Ivan battles both the nobility and the church in an effort to unify Russia. Scored by Sergei Prokofiev, Eisenstein’s painterly film is like a fresco come to life.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II
Sergei Eisenstein
USSR, 1946/1958Sunday, February 11 4:30 PMPeter Bagrov in Person (February 11 screening only)View DetailsThe second part of Eisenstein’s unfinished trilogy follows Ivan’s return to the throne and his ruthless opposition to the schemes of the nobility to keep Russia divided among its princes and foreign interests.
Alexander Nevsky
Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasiliev
USSR, 1938Film to Table dinner follows the February 10 screening
Friday, February 16 4 PMPeter Bagrov in Person (February 10 screening only)View DetailsEisenstein’s first completed sound film has a score by Sergei Prokofiev to propel its tale of a thirteenth-century hero confronting foreign invaders.
Strike
Sergei Eisenstein
USSR, 1925BAMPFA Collection Print / BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Friday, February 23 7 PMJudith Rosenberg on PianoView DetailsA strike by a group of factory workers and its brutal suppression form the backbone of Eisenstein’s agitprop masterpiece of ferocious montage.
October
Sergei Eisenstein
USSR, 1928Digital Restoration
Sunday, March 4 4:30 PMView DetailsMade to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, October fictionally recreates the revolution’s power and fury: so well, in fact, that some of its scenes have been reused in documentaries as the “real thing.”
The General Line
Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov
USSR, 1929BAMPFA Collection
Saturday, March 17 7:30 PMView DetailsEisenstein’s “Russian Gothic” tells of a peasant woman’s struggle against superstition, hostility, and greed in her attempt to form a collective.
Que Viva Mexico!
Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov
USSR, 1931/1979Film to Table dinner follows
Saturday, March 24 5 PMView DetailsSee Mexico through Eisenstein’s eyes in this compilation of footage shot in 1931, intended for an epic hybrid of documentary and fiction that the director never finished. With short Bezhin Meadow.
Misery and Fortune of Women
Eduard Tissé
Switzerland, 1929Sunday, March 25 2 PMView DetailsA treatise on the need for legal abortions, made in Switzerland by cinematographer Eduard Tisse and “supervised” by Eisenstein. With the poetic short Romance sentimentale.
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Sergei Eisenstein
USSR, 1944Saturday, April 21 6 PMPeter Bagrov in Person (February 11 screening only)View DetailsIn sixteenth-century Moscow, the newly crowned Czar Ivan battles both the nobility and the church in an effort to unify Russia. Scored by Sergei Prokofiev, Eisenstein’s painterly film is like a fresco come to life.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II
Sergei Eisenstein
USSR, 1946/1958Saturday, April 21 8 PMPeter Bagrov in Person (February 11 screening only)View DetailsThe second part of Eisenstein’s unfinished trilogy follows Ivan’s return to the throne and his ruthless opposition to the schemes of the nobility to keep Russia divided among its princes and foreign interests.