Eisenstein: The Sound Years (The Criterion Collection) [3 DVD9s]

Sergei Eisenstein, long regarded as a pioneer of film art, changed cinematic strategies halfway through his career. Upon returning from Hollywood and Mexico in the late 1930s, he left behind the densely edited style of celebrated silents like Battleship Potemkin and October, turning instead to historical sources, contradictory audiovisuals, and theatrical sets for his grandiose yet subversive sound-era work. This trio of rousing action epics reveals a deeply unsettling portrait of the Soviet Union under Stalin, and provided battle-scene blueprints for filmmaking giants from Laurence Olivier in Henry V to Akira Kurosawa in Seven Samurai.

Eisenstein drew on history, Russian folk narratives, and the techniques of Walt Disney to create this broadly painted epic of Russian resilience. This story of Teutonic knights vanquished by Prince Alexander Nevsky’s tactical brilliance resonated deeply with a Soviet Union concerned with the rise of Nazi Germany. Widely imitated—most notably by Laurence Olivier’s Battle of Agincourt re-creation for Henry V—the Battle on the Ice scene remains one of the most famous audio-visual experiments in film history, perfectly blending action with the rousing score of Sergei Prokofiev.

Disc Features:
* Gorgeous new digital transfer, with extensive image and sound restoration
* Audio essay by film scholar David Bordwell, author of The Cinema of Eisenstein
* Russell Merritt’s multimedia essay on the Eisenstein-Prokofiev collaboration
* A reconstruction of Eisenstein’s unfinished film Bezhin Meadow by the Eisenstein Museum’s Naum Kleiman, plus scholar Jay Leyda’s photos and documents from the set
* Drawings and production stills
* Restoration demonstration
* New English subtitle translation
* Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia. Visually stunning and powerfully acted, Ivan the Terrible charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator. Though pleased with the first installment, Stalin detected the portrait in the second film—with its summary executions and secret police—and promptly banned it.

Disc Features:
* Multimedia essay on the history of Ivan the Terrible by Joan Neuberger, director of the Center for Soviet Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
* Deleted scenes
* Drawings and production stills
* New English subtitle translation
* Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia. Visually stunning and powerfully acted, Ivan the Terrible charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator. Though pleased with the first installment, Stalin detested the portrait in the second film—with its summary executions and secret police—and promptly banned it.

Disc Features:
* Multimedia essay on Eisenstein’s visual vocabulary by Yuri Tsivian, art history professor at the University of Chicago
* New English subtitle translation
* Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

DVDs:
DVD RELEASE:2001
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG:86-88
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.33:1
COLOUR: Black & White (with colour sequence in Ivan Part II)
AUDIO: Russian Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English (Soft)

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