An old school filmmaker and new world technology have been brought together for a unique movie theater lobby exhibition in Russia.
By FilmStew Staff, FilmStew.com
From May 21st to the 30th, Moscow's venerable Khudozhestvenniy Cinema will be running a film retrospective entitled "Grown-up Children's Cinema." But for many film buffs, the major attraction will be what is on display in the lobby rather than what is flickering on screen.
That's because, per a report on Kinokadr.ru, 134 drawings made in notebooks as a child by famed director Sergei Eisenstein have been photographed and digitally reproduced for exhibition in the movie theater foyer during the run of the event. They will no doubt confirm the magical creative spirit of a filmmaker who, during the span of his too-short lifetime (1898 – 1948), once declared Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to be the greatest film ever made.
Adding to the magical quality of the event is the fact that the Khudozhestvenniy, the oldest movie theater in Moscow, was where the premiere of The Battleship Potemkin was held in 1924. Though today the facility's two auditoriums feature such modernized elements as Dolby Digital Surround EX sound and Kinoton projectors, it has preserved the special seating box where everyone from Stalin to Khruschev once munched popcorn.
The special Eisenstein exhibition comes on the heels of last month's 90th anniversary celebrations held on April 30th at LenFilm, the oldest studio in Russia founded a year before the Khudozhestvenniy in 1908. Though the facility has fallen on hard times recently, LenFilm is where, in 1976, the first Soviet-American production was shot (The Blue Bird, starring Jane Fonda and Elizabeth Taylor). And yes, Eisenstein labored often back in the day at LenFilm's facilities.
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