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IN MEMORY OF VNIIK What do we expect from film science? The film directors round table on February 12, 1975 This transcript of the film directors’ speeches at the «round table», held in the first year of the existence of Research Institute of Cinema Art, is published in memory of this closed institution. The discussion in a free form, unusual for USSR in the mid‑1970s, raised many important problems of film production and film distribution, as well as questions of the relationship between cinema as art and cinema studies. EISENSTEIN READINGS I Alfred H. BARR, Jr. Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein. «Ten Days That Shook the World». Translated by Nayalia Ryabchikova Annette Michelson (1922–2018). Naum Kleiman, Stewart Liebman. Annette MICHELSON. Reading Eisenstein, reading «Capital». Translated by Nina Tsyrkun Dmitry BAKIROV. The evolution of the audiovisual counterpoint in S.M.Eisenstein’s projects of 1929-1930 SUMMARY Andrzej Wajda, winner. Naum Kleiman Andrzej WAJDA. Sketches and a letter Mikhail POLISHCHUK. «Talking Letter» by S.M.Eisenstein. On the attribution of one phono document in the collection of the State Central Museum for Contemporary History of Russia. Three sections of «Eisenstein Readings» in this issue are dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the director’s birth. The first of them presents materials that reflect the diversity of Eisenstein studies—a specific area of film history and theory. The article by the great art critic Alfred Barr is much more than a review on «October», it is an important document of the reception of Eisenstein's work in the circle of the early American avantguarde. We publish a short note to the memory of outstanding researcher and teacher Annette Michelson and her reflections on the ideas associated with Eisenstein’s project «Capital»: this article is recognized as classics of cinema theory. Saint-Petersburg’s film scholar Dmitry Bakirov is trying to explain the still little-studied Eisenstein’s practical use of sound after the publication of the «Statement on Sound». A note to the memory of Andrzej Wajda is supplemented by his sketches of the frames of «Alexander Nevsky», made during his student years,—the evidence of the real «lessons with Eisenstein» during the formation of the «Polish school» in the 1950s. The attribution of a sound recording that contains Eisenstein's voice at the Museum of Contemporary History of Russia is one of works of our colleagues, who discover in the archives new facts about the Master's biography. INTERLOCUTOR Marlen Khutsiev (1925–2019). Nina Dymshits Khutsiev. The motor is on! Materials. Publication by Asya Kolodizhner and Petr Shepotinnik The note in memory of Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev and a part of the transcript of an hours-long interview with the great director, filmed for television by Asya Kolodizhner and Pyotr Shepotinnik. THEORY Thomas ELZAESSER. The Mind-Game Film. Translation by Yulia Vasilyeva Ronald LEVACO. Eikhenbaum, Inner Speech and Film Stylistics. Translated by Nina Tsyrkun Thomas Elsaesser examines the phenomenon of «mind-game films», which demonstrate «how the cinema itself has mutated: rather than ‘reflecting’ reality, or oscillating and alternating between illusionism/realism, these films create their own referentiality, but what they refer to, above all, are ‘the rules of the game’». Ronald Levako, in an article written in 1974, examines Boris Eichenbaum's concept of «inner speech» as the fundamental principle of film composition, comparing it with earlier, contemporary and later aesthetic and psychological theories of thought and the «language of cinema». EISENSTEIN READINGS II Meetings and memories Mikhail SCHWEITSER. Speech at an expanded meeting of the VGIK Academic Council dedicated to the scientific and pedagogical activities of S.M.Eisenstein in connection with the 60th anniversary of his birth (February 13, 1958) Leonid OBOLENSKY. Speech at the 1968 Eisenstein Conference in Moscow Natalia TRAUBERG. [About S.M.] Galina KATANYAN. Outlines about Pere Atasheva and Eisenstein The second section of the «Eisenstein Readings» consists of the memoirs of pupils and people close to Eisenstein: film director Mikhail Abramovich Schweitzer, actor and director Leonid Leonidovich Obolensky, translator and essayist Natalia Leonidovna Trauberg, singer Galina Dmitrievna Katanyan, Pera Atasheva's friend, mother of film director Vassily Katanyan. EXPERIENCE Andrey BUROV. Representation of revolutionary weeks. Visual-anthropological and aesthetic analysis of the issues of the film magazine «Kinonedelya» (June 1918–June 1919), created under the artistic direction of Dziga Vertov Valery AKIMOV. Chris Marker's poetics: image and memory Sophia SHIGINA. Sierck/Sirk, or Imitation of Life The articles on Dziga Vertov, Chris Marker and Douglas Sirk demonstrate different approaches to the study of film directing. They are united by the authors’ interest in the relationship between the director’s individual style and the spirit of the epoch. HISTORICAL MAIL Grigory KOZINTSEV—Leonid PINSKY. Correspondence about «King Lear». Foreword, publication and comments by Alexander Kozintsev The correspondence between film director Grigory Mikhailovich Kozintsev and philologist Leonid Efimovich Pinsky dates back to the time when Kozintsev was shooting the film «King Lear», and Pinsky was working on the book «Shakespeare. Basic principles of dramaturgy». EISENSTEIN READINGS III To the publication of Vsevolod Voinov's «Notebooks». Naum Kleiman Elena ZOMMER. About Vsevolod Vladimirovich Voinov (1880–1945) Vsevolod VOINOV. Notebooks. Published by Elena Zommer, comments by Naum Kleiman «Notebooks» of 1942–1944 by V. V.Voinov restore his name in the filmography of «Ivan the Terrible». They help to understand and appreciate the contribution of this artist to the creation of costumes, props and set design for the film. They recorded important facts of the preparatory and filming periods of the production. They expressively convey the atmosphere of everyday life of people evacuated to Alma-Ata. TOWARDS THE INTERPRETATION OF A FILM Oleg ZASLAVSKY. From multiple subtexts to multiple worlds (about the film «L'année dernière à Marienbad» by Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet) Danila KUZNETSOV. «Sunrise» as a visual symphony. On the stylistic features of the visual constructions in the film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. An article on «Last Year in Marienbad» explores the phenomenon of «incomprehensibility» that underlies this film, and explains the innovation of its creators, who posed «such existential problems in cinema that simply did not exist in the old language system.» The article on «Sunrise» is dedicated to the visual imagery of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's masterpiece in the broader context of the world culture history. CINEMA: LIFE AND ADVENTURE Shigehiko HASUMI. Shiro Kido, producer. The man who was brought into the cinema by the Great Kanto Earthquake. Translated by Anastasia Fedorova The name of producer Shiro Kido entered the Japanese and world film culture thanks to the Shochiku film studio he headed. His program «The Spirit of Ofuna» is associated with the «golden age» of leading figures of Japanese cinema—Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Hiroshi Shimizu, young Akira Kurosawa and other great directors. Professor Hasumi, one of the most respected critics of Japan, talks not only about the biography of this personality who is so important for the history of cinema, but also about Shiro Kido's visit to our country and his acquaintance with Sergei Eisenstein. This article was written especially for our journal. EXPLORATION Ilya VINITSKY. Pickford tape. Historical script by Viktor Shklovsky Andrey PLATONOV. Sacred Life (Cinematic Play). Foreword and publication by Maria Osipenko (Bogomolova) Ilya Vinitsky analyzes Viktor Shklovsky's programmatic essay published in the journal «Sovetsky Ekran» (Soviet Screen) in 1926. Using as a point of departure Shklovsky’s discussion of one of Mary Pickford's popular roles, the author demonstrates fundamentally different attitudes of early Soviet and American cinema to the genre of historical film. Andrei Platonov's script «The Sacred Life» (1936), published here for the first time, is adjacent to a number of works by the writer dedicated to the life of railway workers («Fro», «Immortality», and others). |
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