Joanna:
> Tolstoy and Chekhov have not yet been matched.
So nice to know that Patrick White, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Luigi Pirandello are also-rans. Maybe they should have (like Avis) tried harder.
> Filmmaking owes most of its art to Eisenstein.
This will certainly be news to fiilm historians and scholars. Murnau wasn't important? Hitchcock's combining and extending the techniques of Eisenstein and Murnau is negligible? The model of Clasisscial Hollywood cinema is ready for the dustbin? Farewell D.W. Griffith? Au revoir Andre Bazin? Arrivederci Roberto Rossellini?
Brian Dauth