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| Lev Kuleshov |
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| Born: 1899 |
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A distinguished Soviet director of the silent era, best known today as a
theoretician. The famous "Kuleshov experiment" was
central to the development of montage and led Kuleshov to the belief
that inter-cutting, rather than performance, was the prime basis of
filmic expression. Kuleshov's own films, however, are far from arid;
shrewdly adapting popular genres, they are playful, relaxed and
experimental, and lack the hysteria of Eisenstein or Pudovkin. He
moved ably from satire (Mr West) to melodrama (By The Law), and his
reliance on montage did not prevent him from eliciting some splendid
performances from actors such as his wife, Alexandra Kokhlova.
Alex Jacoby
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