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	Ivan Groznyy I (1944) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ivan the Terrible was commissioned by the Soviet government to glorify a dead dictator, with whom the living dictator (Stalin) identified, but in Eisenstein's hands it became much more than that – one of the greatest studies of power in the history of cinema.
		Ivan the Terrible is primarily concerned with the conflict between the institutional power of the system and the charismatic power of individuals.
		Ivan the Terrible is set largely in dim, grimy interiors – in contrast to earlier Eisenstein pictures which took place largely outdoors – so the grainy, moody look is quite appropriate.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0037824 (998 words)

	DVD.net : Ivan The Terrible - Part 2 - DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ivan the Terrible Part II proved to be Eisenstein’s final film; afflicted with persistent health problems, the director died in 1948.
		Ivan the Terrible Part II is presented in a screen aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and is cropped from its original 1.37:1 ratio.
		Indeed, it soured the remainder of the film.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=688 (1064 words)

	Ivan the Terrible A film review by Jamie Stuart
		The problem with the former is that it attempts to explain in literary terms what its author best described through filmed images, and the problem with the latter is that it was written by somebody who’s never actually had anything of his filmed.
		Ivan the Terrible was originally intended as a 3-part film, however, Eisenstein had worked on only two of them before his death in 1948.
		Watching these films at home renders them more study objects than anything else, rather than the full blown experiences they were intended to be.
	www.movienavigator.org /ivan.htm (985 words)

	Ivan the Terrible (film) - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ivan The Terrible is a two-part film about Ivan IV of Russia made by Russian director Sergei Eisenstein.
		The film was originally planned to be divided into three separate parts, but only two of these were ever completed, as Eisenstein died before the filming of the third part could be finished.
		The film was banned by Stalin from being shown, and despite being finished for over a decade, didn't get its first screening until 1958, five years after his death.
	ivantheterriblepartone.quickseek.com (352 words)

	DVD Review - Alexander Nevsky / Ivan The Terrible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ivan the Terrible, on the other hand, is a very different movie.
		Ivan is always active and larger than life, yet there are still intimate moments that give him dimension, such as his scenes with his wife.
		Two reels of Ivan II are in color (the only time Eisenstein worked with color film) and are quite vibrant for their age.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/alexander_nevsky___ivan_the_terrible.shtml (1403 words)

	Ivan the Terrible \| Features \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		Ivan, played by Danny Huston (son of John and Anjelica's half-brother), is the epitome of charm Moloney was said to be, his life a carousel of drugs, prostitutes and schmoozing.
		Upon his return, though, the film was taken out of his hands and injudiciously trimmed by the studio (the Anna character was judged to be "unsympathetic").
		Ivans xtc was a "nice little quick film" he had decided to shoot beforehand on digital video, with his partner Lisa Enos as producer and co-star.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,753656,00.html (1338 words)

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		Ivan's enemies are legion and also include a traitorous ally Kurbsky (Mikhail Nazvanov), who invites Ivan's trust but lusts for power, and for the hand of the tsar's wife Anastasia (Lyudmila Tselikovskaya).
		Ivan's one confidant is his beautiful wife Anastasia, whom Ivan marries soon after his coronation in a lavish ceremony and wedding feast soon invaded by masses of contentious Russians.
		Ivan I was followed by Ivan the Terrible II (1945) in a cycle Eisenstein initially envisioned as a trilogy before his untimely death in 1948.
	www.tcm.com /thismonth/article.jsp?cid=38690&mainArticleId=135985 (896 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1 at Epinions.com
		This is only partly the case with Ivan the Terrible, because both the film and its background are fascinating.
		The evidence for this interpretation is everywhere in the film: the camera angles are curious, the acting is very stagey, and extreme close-ups and prolonged dramatic pauses abound.
		Ivan consolidates power by confiscating the wealth of the aristocratic Boyars, and by merging the faceless proletariat into an army of supporters.
	www.epinions.com /content_30915858052 (753 words)

	Ivan the Terrible at the Paris Opera Ballet
		Ivan the Terrible might be terrible, but Nicolas Le Riche in the central role was magnificent, as were both the casts I saw at the Opéra Bastille.
		Performing the role of Ivan, a part requiring experience and very great acting ability could not have been easy after the passage of giants*, but Stéphane Bullion, stylish and strong, rose to the challenge, fulfilling his early promise, surprising more than one with the ease with which he tackled the demanding choreography.
		Ivan the Terrible is indeed a heavy, overpowering epic, which many believe to be obsolete, but it is nevertheless part of dance history and should be preserved, particularly when superlatively danced by the French company.
	www.culturekiosque.com /dance/reviews/ivan.html (865 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II
		A majestic synthesis of disparate forms, Sergei Eisenstein’s final film seems to be as much a ballet or an opera or a moving painting (or a mutant kabuki show) as it is a movie.
		Official art with a vengeance, Ivan the Terrible opens in 1547 amid the Byzantine pageantry of Ivan’s coronation and, moving from one crisis in his absolute authority to the next, manages a sustained intensity that is all the more remarkable for its relative absence of conventional action.
		Ivan is as stylized as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, as detailed as Pinocchio.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=88&eid=13§ion=essay (506 words)

	DVD REVIEW (R0) Eisenstein: The Sound Years - Ivan, The Terrible I & II - Alexander Nevsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		All three transfers, Ivan The Terrible 1, Part 2 and Alexandr Nevsky exhibit excellently detailed transfers to video despite the uneven quality of the print that was used for transfer in Moscow.
		As for Alexandr Nevsky - the film is basically in the same league as with regard to condition compared to the Ivan Parts 1 & 2, in picture and sound.
		It does not include the few shots made for the never completed Ivan, The Terrible: Part 3, which were included on a Japanese Laserdisc released in 1993.
	www.dvdscan.com /eisenstein.htm (886 words)

	Stalin: The Discussion with Sergei Eisenstein
		Tsar Ivan was a great and a wise ruler, and if he is compared with Ludwig XI (you have read about Ludwig XI who prepared absolutism for Ludwig XIV), then Ivan the Terrible is in the tenth heaven.
		The wisdom of Ivan the Terrible is reflected by the following: he looked at things from the national point of view and did not allow foreigners into his country, he barricaded the country from the entry of foreign influence.
		Next Stalin made a series of remarks regarding the interpretation of Ivan the Terrible and said that Malyuta Skuratov was a great army general and died a hero's death in the war with Livonia.
	www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv3n2/ivant.htm (3009 words)

	seminar5. Film, Politics and History
		Ivan was well aware that his abdication would have potentially disastrous implications for society - for sixteenth-century Russians he was considered not just the head of state but the state itself.
		This is a cruel parallel of the scene in which Ivan tells Phillip of the loneliness and danger of being a child thrust into the world of political intrigue.
		Ivan Fydor, a wealthy apparently incorruptible boyar was executed by Ivan who feared he coveted the throne.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~histfilm/sem5.html (1681 words)

	Eisenstein's "Nevskii" and "Ivan"
		Eisenstein's goal was to rehabilitate the "terrible" reputation of Ivan, not with a whitewash but with careful attention to the environment that both inspired his cruelties and defined the noble "cause" which inspired his actions.
		Ivan the IV's principal aim was to create a strong centralized sovereign State in place of the scattered, mutually hostile feudal principalities of Old Russia.
		Ivan turns to the foreign dignitaries and states his meaning of "sovereignty" = The tsar is absolute both with respect to his subjects within Russia and with respect to foreign powers.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~kimball/eisenstein.htm (3866 words)

	Faint Thunder: Ivan the Terrible, Opéra Bastille, December 12th 2003 to January 7th 2004
		The opening-night cast at Paris, filmed for television in late December 2003, was Nicolas LeRiche, Eleonora Abbagnato, Karl Paquette, in the roles of Ivan, the Czarina and Prince Andrew Kurbski respectively, the second cast being José Martinez, Delphine Moussin and Hervé Moreau.
		Ivan IV known as « Grozny » (perhaps best translated as The Thunderclap), first Czar of Muscovy, is a magnificent subject for the ballet, and one that would undoubtedly have been warmly endorsed by Noverre in his famous Letters, when he wrote in Letter VII:
		On Ivan IV's accession at the age of sixteen, those notions, though distorted, were straightaway acted upon, Louis XI being almost certainly the model on which the then-Duke's advisors patterned themselves.
	auguste.vestris.free.fr /Reviews/Ivan.html (2535 words)

	MUSIC REVIEW; 'Ivan the Terrible' Lives, Survivor of Stalin's Wrath - New York Times
		The new project was ''Ivan the Terrible,'' a film in three parts to lionize Russia's first czar and a 16th-century visionary.
		One hears, however, little condescension in ''Ivan the Terrible.'' The orchestration is filled with delicate subtleties to go along with the fireworks.
		If ''Ivan the Terrible'' is not great art, it is at least a vivid and compelling piece of political salesmanship.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9407EED61231F93BA25755C0A9679C8B63 (563 words)

	Amazon.com: Eisenstein - The Sound Years (Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 & 2, Alexander Nevsky) - Criterion Collection: DVD: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ivan the Terrible parts 1 and 2 are the first two parts of an unfinished trilogy.
		The Agfacolor film stock was captured from the Germans during WWII and was used for this film.
		I feel that the editing and camerawaork are far less overwrought than in "Ivan the Terrible", with a stronger sense of logic in the unfolding of the cinematic space in the film; the characters are correspondingly stronger than in the other films (although that isn't saying very much).
	www.amazon.com /Eisenstein-Terrible-Alexander-Criterion-Collection/dp/B00004XQN5 (3369 words)

	Тодд Aлдерман
		Shurik’s wife is apparently having and affair with a producer that she works for and walks into the apartment to tell her husband that she is leaving him and is going to Gagry with her lover.
		Obviously this film is a classic because the same type films in America were becoming classics as well.
		The humor used is common to all people no matter the country, and films from all over the world used this type comedy because all people are amused by the same type of jokes.
	www.valdosta.edu /~stalderm/Ivan.htm (862 words)

	Sergei Eisenstein - Ivan The Terrible - podcast
		Ivan The Terrible (clip, 4.8 MB) Sergei Eisenstein (1898 – 1948) was a pioneer Latvian filmmaker.
		His film, Ivan The Terrible, Part I, (Иван Грозный, 1945), presenting Ivan the IV of Russia as a national hero and won the Stalin Prize.
		The sequel, Ivan The Terrible, Part II (1946-1958) was condemn by Stalin, and footage from Ivan The Terrible: Part III (1946, unfinished) was confiscated, and most of it was destroyed.
	www.mefeedia.com /entry/80354 (105 words)

	Ivan the Terrible (Ivan Grozny) Film Review - Time Out Film
		The historical subject - Tsar Ivan's struggle to consolidate the Russian empire, freeing it from Eastern domination and (in Part II) the self-serving interests of the Boyars - is sufficiently removed from the crucial problem (for Eisenstein) of reconciling film theory and political practice for it to work as comic melodrama.
		Often criticised for its lack of historical truth, the film still holds up as a camp essay in authoritarian paranoia.
		Cherkassov's contorted performance as Ivan, absurdly stylised though it is, beautifully expresses the conscience of the state torn between absolutism and factionalism, while managing a miraculous integration with a superbly operatic visual style.
	www.timeout.com /film/76294.html (192 words)

	Ivan the Terrible
		Sergei Eisenstein envisaged Ivan the Terrible (1944/46)--his highly stylised life of the sixteenth-century Russian Tsar--as a trilogy, but he died in 1948 before he could even really begin the third part.
		Ivan the Terrible is a ruin, but a glorious one, with its director at the height of his powers.
		He is Professor of Art History and Cinema Studies at the University of Chicago and author of Silent Witnesses: Russian Films, 1908-1919 (1989), Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception (1994), and, in collaboration with Yuri Lotman, Dialogues with the Screen (1994).
	www.ucpress.edu /books/bfi/pages/PROD0252.html (328 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II
		Criterion is proud to present Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II, in new digital transfers with extensive image and sound restoration.
		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
		Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II is presented in the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=88 (212 words)

	Alexander Nevsky / Ivan The Terrible
		Both Ivan I and II were shot back to back following Nevsky, and were to be a trilogy before Eisenstein’s untimely death.
		Tsar who united Russia is played in both films by Alexander Nevsky’s Nikolai Cherkassov, who gives a finely textured and commanding performance.
		Parts I and II of Ivan must be considered together, since they form the first and second act in a three part drama which was never complete.
	www.dvdreview.com /html/alexander_nevsky___ivan_the_terrible.html (1367 words)

	Face of Russia: Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The most famous of all Muscovites was Ivan IV, known as Ivan the Terrible.
		As the head of a religious civilization, Ivan the Terrible had every aspect of domestic activity ritualized through semimonastic rules of conduct, preserved in a book called the Domostroi.
		And God keeps silence when Ivan asked him ‘have I right to kill people for the great Russia?’ and because silence is the answer, Ivan is trying to kill the God,” explains film historian Naum Kleinman.
	www.pbs.org /weta/faceofrussia/timeline/1500/1533-84.html (209 words)

	Ivan
		Prokofiev's score to the two-part Sergei Eisenstein film, Ivan the Terrible, despite its many beautiful and sensitive moments, is a music that exudes raucous masculine camaraderie; march-on-your-enemies music; throw-your-vodka-glass-against-the-fireplace music.
		Prokofiev, no doubt disgusted and disheartened by Stalin's condemnation of Part 2 of the 1942-1945 film, as well as the death in 1948 of friend and colleague Eisenstein, never wrote a suite or cantata for the music score.
		This performance was a thrilling, earth-shattering rendition of a too-neglected operatic jewel of film music and symphonic propaganda.
	www.sprkfv.net /old/2001/ivan.html (608 words)

	RUSSIA: Ivan the Terrible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In our discussion of Sergei Eisenstein, we mentioned his film "Ivan the Terrible", who seemed to be a prototype pf Soviet government through terror.
		I believe the most vivid image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian minds may be Repin s magnificent painting called Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan: November 16, 1581, which hangs in the Tretyakov Gallery, and which is an icon of Russian art.
		It is also said of Ivan the Terrible that after the construction of the Cathedral of St. Vassily on Red Square (which we call St. Basil s), Ivan was so impressed by its beauty that he had the architect, Barma, blinded, so that he could never create anything which might surpass.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Russia/russia_ivantheterrible32103.html (230 words)

	Amazon.com: Ivan the Terrible (Bfi Film Classics): Books: Yuri Tsivian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is not the story Yuri Tsivian chooses to tell in his study of 'Ivan' - he is not interested in its historical context (conceived in the heat of World War 2, finished as the USSR emerged as one of the world's two superpowers).
		Each frame in 'Ivan' has a number of sources from Eisenstein's intellectual canon, be it the writings of Rabelais, Shakespeare, Balzac, Freud or Bakhtin; the art of the Renaissance or Russian murals; the traditions of folklore, alchemy or the carnivalesque; or American films by the likes of Chaplin.
		Tsivian is eager to analyse the film's mechanisms and origins rather than its meaning, giving his reader the tools with which to 'work' this forbidding film.
	www.amazon.com /Ivan-Terrible-Bfi-Film-Classics/dp/085170834X (1579 words)

	Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ivan the Terrible marks the final stages of the cinema's greatest creative genius: SERGI EISENSTEIN.
		In the work, Eisenstein has gone eons beyond his earlier methods of film creation and for the first time approaches a true synthesis of dance, music, poetry, painting, photography, architecture, and all other forms of aesthetic communication.
		What remains of Ivan the Terrible will live forever as a testament not only to the genius of Sergei Eisenstein but also to his unparalleled contribution to the world culture of the 20th century.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0051790 (490 words)

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