Program
ΤΑΙΝΙΟΘΗΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ, ΜΙΚΡΗ ΛΕΣΧΗ (ΚΑΝΑΡΗ 1) - ΝΑ ΖΕΙ ΤΟ ΜΕΞΙΚΟ
The programme mentions that in this gargantuan film, “The Endless Frieze” (1930-32), the well-known "Eisensteinian montage" wasn’t meant to be applied. It gives an account of the director’s adventure as he was making this film: it starts historically from the period when Sergei Eisenstein abandons Europe after signing a contract with Paramount; his warm reception in the States; his meeting with the big stars of Hollywood; the wealth of screenplays he is offered as well; as his major disappointment at all the projects that couldn’t be implemented - and the deus ex machina Upton Sinclair who funds the shooting of a long film for Mexico. The film included a Prologue, four stories, which the director called Novellas (the Fourth Novella was never filmed) and an Epilogue, despite the fact that a lot of alterations took place in the process for political reasons as well as due to the producer’s own caprices. The lack of workshops in Mexico forces the director to send all the negatives to Hollywood in order for the editing to move along. The authorities, however, deport him to Europe, forbidding him to enter the U.S.A. The only place he is allowed to stop is New York, where he gets to see the material and makes arrangements for it to be sent to Moscow for final editing. The material, however, never arrives in his hands. Although Eisenstein never completed the film, “the passion, the plastic form of the image, is alive" reproducing the land with the “mythical prehistory”, which fought to get rid of Spanish domination, the homeland of Zapata and the great painter Diego Rivera.
- Cinema ΤΑΙΝΙΟΘΗΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ, ΜΙΚΡΗ ΛΕΣΧΗ (ΚΑΝΑΡΗ 1)
- Pages 2
- Τόπος Έκδοσης ATHENS
- Language GREEK, MODERN (1453 - )
- Height 29,7 CM
- Width 21 CM
- Paper Type ΒΙΟΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΟ
- Status ΠΟΛΥ ΚΑΛΗ
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