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Ivan the Terrible, Parts One & Two Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 2:00pm Running time: 201m (includes a ten-minute intermission) Cinematic Opera / Operatic Cinema: Reflections on the Merging of Media ~ a collaboration between the Film Society of Lincoln Center and New York City Opera Click here for the entire 2008-09 season. Introduction, post-screening talk and Q&A with special guest speaker Ian Christie, Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at the School of History of Art, Film, and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London. A complimentary reception in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery will follow the event. Eisenstein’s extraordinary collaborations with composer Sergei Prokofiev were in no sense filmed operas, but attempts to bring the stylization of opera to the screen. After the success of Eisenstein and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, the idea of a film based on the life of the great unifier of Russia appealed to the Soviet authorities, especially Stalin, who counted himself among the Tsar’s biggest admirers. Part One begins with Archduke Ivan crowning himself Tsar despite widespread opposition. The film chronicles his marriage to Anastasia, his wars against the Tartars, his near death through illness and finally, in one of the most remarkable scenes ever shot, his return to the throne after a moving appeal from thousands of his subjects. Part Two looks in detail at the Russian court’s nobility, the Boyars, as they attempt to unseat Ivan and replace him with the simpleton Vladimir. Part Two—disapproved of by Stalin and not released until after his, Eisenstein and Prokofiev’s deaths—contains a fabulous sequence in color, made with captured German stock. Ivan the Terrible, Part One / Ivan Groznyy I Sergei M. Eisenstein, Soviet Union, 1944; 103m SCREENING WITH Ivan the Terrible, Part Two: The Boyars’ Plot / Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor Sergei M. Eisenstein & M. Filimonova, Soviet Union, 1946/58; 88m The three screenings in this unique investigation of film and opera’s intricate relationship will be introduced and followed by a talk and Q&A with an esteemed film critic. A complimentary reception in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery will follow each event. The series culminates in a Plenary Panel Discussion moderated by Richard Peña, with Atom Egoyan, Julie Taymor, and other distinguished directors who have brought opera and film together. Admission is $35 for each of the screenings and also for the panel. The Series Pass for all four events is $100. Online: Visa & MasterCard, $2.50 surcharge per ticket, $5.00 surcharge per series pass; Walter Reade Theater box office: cash transactions only. Click here for all four program descriptions and the entire 2008-09 season schedule. Back to Top