The Criterion Collection

Eisenstein: The Sound Years

Edition no. 86

Alexander Nevsky - The Criterion Collection 2001 DVD ( USA) Ivan the Terrible - The Criterion Collection 2001 DVD ( USA) Eisenstein: The Sound Years - The Criterion Collection 2001 DVD ( USA)
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  • Release Date: Tuesday, 24 April 2001
  • Country of Release: USA
  • MSRP: $79.95
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Alexander Nevsky | Ivan the Terrible, Part I | Ivan the Terrible, Part II
Licensor Information
Mosfilm
Directed by: Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein, long regarded as a pioneer of film art, changed cinematic strategies halfway through his career. Upon returning from Hollywood and Mexico in the late 1930s, he left behind the densely edited style of celebrated silents like Battleship Potemkin and October, turning instead to historical sources, contradictory audiovisuals, and theatrical sets for his grandiose yet subversive sound-era work. This trio of rousing action epics reveals a deeply unsettling portrait of the Soviet Union under Stalin, and provided battle-scene blueprints for filmmaking giants from Laurence Olivier in Henry V to Akira Kurosawa in Seven Samurai.
  • Year: 1938 | 1945 | 1946
  • Time: 108 | 99 | 85 min.

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Technical Specifications

Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (3 Discs)
Total: 3 Discs
Regions:
2/3/4/5/6/1 (DVD)
4/6/5/3/2/1 (DVD)
1/2/3/4/5/6 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
Russian Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English

Supplements

Types of Supplements Included:
  • Audio essay by film scholar David Bordwell, author of The Cinema of Eisenstein
  • Multimedia essay on the history of Ivan the Terrible by Joan Neuberger, director of the Center for Soviet Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Russell Merritt's multimedia essay on the Eisenstein-Prokofiev collaboration
  • Deleted scenes for Part I
  • A reconstruction of Eisenstein
  • Drawings and production stills for Part I
  • Drawings and production stills
  • Multimedia essay on Eisenstein's visual vocabulary by Yuri Tsivian, art history professor at the University of Chicago
  • Restoration demonstration
  • Insert featuring an essay by J. Hoberman
  • Insert featuring an essay by J. Hoberman

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Release Notes on Restoration

Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Nevsky is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. This new digital transfer was created on a high-definition Spirit Datacine from a new 35mm composite fine-grain master positive, made exclusively for Criterion by Mosfilm.
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II is presented in the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. These new digital transfer were created on a high-definition Spirit Datacine from new 35mm composite fine-grain masters, made exclusively for Criterion by Mosfilm.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II
Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II is presented in the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. These new digital transfer were created on a high-definition Spirit Datacine from new 35mm composite fine-grain masters, made exclusively for Criterion by Mosfilm.