Brian Charles Dauth wrote:
> Dear List:
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> Joanna:
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>> Tolstoy and Chekhov have not yet been matched.
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> 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.
Ahem. They are good fellow, but in a slightly different league.
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>> Filmmaking owes most of its art to Eisenstein.
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> 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?
I'll edit that remark to say that it was Eisenstein who showed what the art of filmmaking consisted of. And, yes, you're right about Murnau. No quarrell that the people you mention expanded the language that Eisenstein created.
Joanna