The Best Director of All Time: Sergei Eisenstein

#film #history #sovietunion #filmanalysis #filmhistory #sergeieisenstein #ussr #analysis #videoessay This video is an in depth overview of Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein's films and life. It is a synthesis of material and interpretation from his films, Marie Seton's biography, and his film essays gathered by Jay Leyda in Film Form. I hope to introduce Eisenstein and his work, while still saying enough to not necessitate anything further. Though, I do highly recommend Battleship Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky. Sources: Basic facts are not all cited. Quotes are cited to the chapter/page. All images in the video with a tan outline and label are from Seton’s Biography Main Sources: Sergei M. Eisenstein: a biography - Marie Seton https://archive.org/details/sergeimei... Film Form; essays in film theory - Sergei Eisenstein (and Jay Leyda) https://archive.org/details/filmforme... Films: Glumov's Diary (1923) - dir. Eisenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gl... Strike (1925) - dir. Eisenstein    • Strike (Eisenstein, 1925) — English Intert...   Battleship Potemkin (1925) - dir. Eisenstein    • Battleship "Potemkin" | DRAMA | FULL MOVIE...   October (1928) - dir. Eisenstein, Alexandrov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October... The General Line/Old and New (1929) - dir. Eisenstein, Alexandrov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gen... Romance Sentimentale (1930) - dir. Eisenstein, Alexandrov https://archive.org/details/RomanceSe... Alexander Nevsky (1938) - dir. Eisenstein, Vasilyev https://archive.org/details/alexander... Ivan the Terrible: Part I (1944) - dir. Eisenstein    • Ivan the Terrible, Part One | DRAMA | FULL...   Ivan the Terrible: Part II (1946/1958) - dir. Eisenstein    • lvan the Terrible, Part Two | DRAMA | FULL...   Que Viva Mexico (1979) - reconstructed by Alexandrov    • Que Viva Mexico | FULL MOVIE | by Sergei E...   Supplementary Sources: Kino, a history of the Russian and Soviet film - Jay Leyda https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i... A Statement on Sound Film - Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Alexandrov, and Vertov https://soma.sbcc.edu/users/davega/FI... Directives on the Film Business - V.I. Lenin (referenced section is in the notes) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...