Set in Mexico during the “10 days that shook” Russia’s greatest silent filmmaker, “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” marks Peter Greenaway’s raucous attempt to capture his all-time cinema idol at his moment ...

The premise of "Eisenstein in Guanajuato" is simple. As director Peter Greenaway ("The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover") lays it out in the film's production notes, he had long been intrigued ...

It’s stretching the truth to call Renny Bartlett’s “Eisenstein” a movie biography, since it plays so fast and loose with the facts surrounding the life of the great Russian director, Sergei Eisenstein ...

Peter Greenaway takes on the legend of Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s early-1930s Mexican misadventures, which were suspended when he ran out of funds from his sponsor, Upton Sinclair. The ...

The exceptional historical film has had such a profound impact on western visual culture that many may not realise how deeply ...

A hundred years later, Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin reminds us that the most effective propaganda does not ...

'Eisenstein in Guanajuato,' which was refused Russian state funding because of homoerotic elements, has been bought by Volga. By Nick Holdsworth Krzysztof Penderecki, Composer of ‘The Exorcist’ and ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - British director Peter Greenaway's explicit treatment of Sergei Eisenstein's homosexuality, in his new film about the maker of the Soviet-era masterpieces "Battleship Potemkin" and ...