The massacre on the steps, which never took place, was presumably inserted by Eisenstein for dramatic effect and to demonise the Imperial regime.

Another red-thread element of The Deluge is that it takes its cue from an unfinished project — Eisenstein never carried out this particular project.

The development of Russian cinema in the 1920s by such filmmakers as Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein saw considerable progress in the use of the motion picture as a propaganda tool, yet it also served to develop the art of moviemaking.

For the unfinished filming of the " novel " of Soldadera, without incurring any cost, Eisenstein had secured 500 soldiers, 10, 000 guns, and 50 cannons from the Mexican Army, but this was lost due to Sinclair's cancelling of production.

As Sergei Eisenstein pointed out in his landmark essay on Charles Dickens, films most readily adapt novels with externalities and physical description: they fare poorly when they attempt the Modern novel and any fiction that has internal monologue or, worse, stream of consciousness.

In mathematics, Eisenstein's theorem, named after the German mathematician Gotthold Eisenstein, applies to the coefficients of any power series which is an algebraic function with rational number coefficients.

The associates ( unit multiples ) and the complex conjugate of any Eisenstein prime are also prime.

Mikhail spoke about Eisenstein's films as being different from his and his brother's in that Eisenstein, " came from the theatre, in the theatre one directs dramas, one strings beads.

Whereas Sergei Eisenstein viewed his montage of attractions as a propaganda tool through which the film-viewing masses could be subjected to “ emotional and psychological influence ” and therefore able to perceive “ the ideological aspect ” of the films they were being shown, Vertov believed the Kino-Eye would influence the actual evolution of man, “ from a bumbling citizen through the poetry of the machine to the perfect electric man .”

Eisenstein admired these artists as much as Mexican culture in general, and they inspired Eisenstein to call his films " moving frescoes ".

Two short feature films and a short subject — Thunder Over Mexico based on the " Maguey " footage, Eisenstein in Mexico, and Death Day respectively — were completed and released in the United States between the autumn of 1933 and early 1934.

In his initial films, Eisenstein did not use professional actors.

Some films depicted the part of peoples of the Soviet Union against foreign invaders: " Alexander Nevsky " by Eisenstein, " Minin and Pozharsky " by Pudvokin, and " Bogdan Khmelnitsky " by Savchenko.

Examples of this exist not only in posters but also in the films of Leni Riefenstahl and Sergei Eisenstein.

In 1938, Sergei Eisenstein made one of his most acclaimed films, Alexander Nevsky, on Alexander's victory over the Teutonic Knights.

Its output includes most of the more widely-acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein ( commonly considered the greatest Soviet directors ), to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production ( Дерсу Узала / Dersu Uzala ) and the epic Война и Мир / War and Peace.

The antecedents of art films included D. W. Griffith's film Intolerance ( 1916 ) and the works of Sergei Eisenstein.

The films of Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Alexander Dovzhenko, and Vsevolod Pudovkin were instrumental in providing an alternate model from that offered by classical Hollywood.

The distributor is credited with introducing numerous films, now considered masterpieces of world cinema, to American audiences, including the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Yasujirō Ozu and many other well-regarded directors.

A couple of scenes in the film are re-stagings of scenes from Sergei Eisenstein films, to allude to a moment of more pure ( truthful ) film making in the Soviet Union.

* Sergei Eisenstein, director who made some famous Russian films ( including The Battleship Potemkin ), born in Riga.

Gutiérrez uses a dizzying array of materials and filmic styles in Memories, from documentary-style narrative sequences which use long unbroken shots taken from handheld cameras to agitational montage sequences reminiscent of the films of early Soviet filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein.

He has been in numerous films including The Contract, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Land of the Blind, The Tailor of Panama, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, Eisenstein, The Mummy, and Anaconda.

Historian Peter Kenez has noted the heavy influence of the Proletkult ethic in the work of pioneer Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, director of the classic films Strike ( 1925 ), The Battleship Potemkin ( 1926 ), and October: Ten Days That Shook the World ( 1927 ):

The montage experiments carried out by Kuleshov in the late 1910s and early 1920s formed the theoretical basis of Soviet montage cinema, culminating in the famous films of the late 1920s by directors such as Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Dziga Vertov, among others.

Eisenstein's montage experiments met with official disapproval ; the authorities complained that October was unintelligible to the masses, and Eisenstein was attacked — for neither the first time nor the last — for excessive " formalism ".

Eisenstein was heavily influenced by the ideology of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, which results in it providing better insight into the mindset of the later revolution than that which it depicted.

Many of his theoretical articles from this period, such as Eisenstein on Disney, have surfaced decades later as seminal scholarly texts used as curriculum in film schools around the world.

The band's members were Michael Eisenstein, Kay Hanley, Stacy Jones, Greg McKenna, Scott Riebling, and later, Tom Polce.

Jacobi also encouraged the distinction, but later relations between Jacobi and Eisenstein were always rocky, due primarily to a disagreement over the order of discoveries made in 1846.

Rabbi Ira Eisenstein ( November 26, 1906-June 28, 2001 ) founded Reconstructionist Judaism, along with Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, his teacher and, later, father-in-law through his marriage to Judith Kaplan, over a period of time spanning from the late 1920s to the 1940s.

Historian Elizabeth Eisenstein claimed that the fall of Constantinople in 1453 had threatened the importance and survival of Greek scholarship, but publications such as those by the Aldine Press secured it.

He also began studying film theory by reading books about other famous directors, such as Sergei Eisenstein along with how-to books about the craft of film making.

Eisenstein himself, however, was accused by the Soviet authorities under Joseph Stalin of " formalist error ," of highlighting form as a thing of beauty instead of portraying the worker nobly.

He was survived by Rivka and his daughters Dr. Judith Eisenstein, Hadassah Musher, Dr. Naomi Wenner and Selma Jaffe-Goldman.

Reconstructionism was developed by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan ( 1881 – 1983 ) and his son-in-law, Rabbi Ira Eisenstein ( 1906 – 2001 ), over a period of time spanning from the late 1920s to the 1940s.

* Strike ( film ), 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein

In 1923 Eisenstein began his career as a theorist, by writing The Montage of Attractions for LEF.

In the autumn of 1928, with October still under fire in many Soviet quarters, Eisenstein left the Soviet Union for a tour of Europe, accompanied by his perennial film collaborator Grigori Aleksandrov and cinematographer Eduard Tisse.

In 1929, in Switzerland, Eisenstein supervised an educational documentary about abortion directed by Tissé entitled Frauennot-Frauenglück.

Eisenstein proposed a biography of munitions tycoon Sir Basil Zaharoff and a film version of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw, and more fully developed plans for a film of Sutter's Gold by Jack London, but on all accounts failed to impress the studio's producers.

Eisenstein completed a script by the start of October 1930, but Paramount disliked it completely and, additionally, found themselves intimidated by Major Frank Pease, president of the Hollywood Technical Director's Institute.

On October 23, 1930, by " mutual consent ," Paramount and Eisenstein declared their contract null and void, and the Eisenstein party were treated to return tickets to Moscow at Paramount's expense.

Sinclair's works had been accepted by and were widely read in the USSR, and were known to Eisenstein.

The trip to Mexico was for Eisenstein to make a film produced by Sinclair and his wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, and three other investors organized as the " Mexican Film Trust ".

" The contract also stipulated that the film would be " non-political ," that immediately available funding came from Mrs. Sinclair in an amount of " not less than Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ," that the shooting schedule amounted to " a period of from three to four months ," and most importantly that " Eisenstein furthermore agrees that all pictures made or directed by him in Mexico, all negative film and positive prints, and all story and ideas embodied in said Mexican picture, will be the property of Mrs. Sinclair ..." A codicil to the contract, dated December 1, allowed that the " Soviet Government may have the film free for showing inside the U. S. S. R ." Reportedly, it was verbally clarified that the expectation was for a finished film of about an hour's duration.

By 4 December 1930, Eisenstein was en route to Mexico by train, accompanied by Aleksandrov and Tisse.

Even though Soviet film executive Boris Shumyatsky encouraged Sinclair in undermining Eisenstein it was derailed not as much as Bezhin Meadow by the Soviet film industry, but by its American backers.