Ivans. Spanish Earth. Going on leave
1937 Directed by Joris Ivens Commentary by Ernest Hemingway Photography by John Ferno Music by Marc Blitzstein and Virgil […]
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Puduvkin. Dezertir #1
Rare soviet film from 1933 by Vsevolod Pudovkin
Renoir, Jean. “Is the Cinema Art?”
“Fascism, like Communism, believes in progress. The followers of both creeds look to a social order based on technology…Progress is […]
Ivens. The Camera and I. Re documentary and objectivity.
“I was surprised to find that many people automatically assumed that any documentary film would inevitably be objective. Perhaps the […]
Ivens. The Camera and I. re agitate-mobilize
“A writer’s problem does not change. He himself changes, but his problem remains the same. It is always how to […]
Ivens. The Camera and I. Re ojectivity.
And on every hand, in both the United States and England, there were demands for more ‘objectivity’. I was often […]
Benjamin. “Author as…” Re revolutionary intellectual.
“The revolutionary intellectual appears first and foremost as the betrayer of his class of origin.” This betrayal consists, in the […]
Vertov. Cine-Eye.
“I am the Cine-Eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you the world only as I can […]
Eisenstein. “Eisenstein on Eis,” re the slogan
“The slogan ‘All for one and one for all’ was not confined to the screen. If we shoot a film […]
Lorenz, Pare. The River (1937). Trailer.
A clip from the Pare Lorentz documentary featuring a newly recorded soundtrack of the classic score by Virgil Thomson.