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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1363 oviet estiv oi es Interest I (Ediior' note: An inter nalional film festival in Moscow offers the Rus sians a rare chance lo see some western stars and ideas and the west a look at the Soviet film industry. Here is a preview of what the Russians are doing.) By NICHOLAS DANILOFF United Press International Moscow -iUPli- There won't be any bikinis or starlet hi jinks but Danny Kaye will be here- So will Stanley Kra mer, the producer. They will be among actors and technicians from 50 na tions who have accepted in vitations to the third interna tional film festival to con tinue through July 21. Host is the Soviet Union, acclaimed producer of some of the greatest films of all times. This- gathering is likely to inspire Russian film makers with dozens of fresh ideas at a time when movie-making in the U.S. S R. is under fire on both political and econo mic grounds. But in keeping with the biennial' tradition of the last four years, Moscow has in vited all countries of the world to compete for honors under the slogan "for human ism in film art." In the past the Soviet Union has gained rare praise for some of its productions. The international jury for the j bureau of the history of cine matography voted three So viet films among the greatest of them all at the 1958 Brus sels World Fair. These were Ssrgei Eisenstein's "Battle ship P tern kin" (1025), Mother" produced by Pu- dovkin (1926) and Dovjhcn-' ko's "Earth" ilOoO). Few Films Seen But American moviegoers have only had a limited chance to see the contempor ary output, because Russian films are sparsely circulated in the United States. This is partly due lo limi- fv 6-17-28-39 TAURUS j'. 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MAR 21 cj 64-65-66-74 '- 175-76-77 V tat ions of- subject matter Only recently Premier Niki tn Khrushchev and his idco luRioul expert Leonid Ilyi chev sharply criticized some of the industry's more daring efforts, and a plenary mcet mn oi the Communist party central c ommiltee has brought iis ideas to bear on tiie mauer. Soviet authorities, and C. officials before them, have tried to keep close con trol of the skill mushroom ins cinemas in this country because they recognize them as op.e pi the broadest and nie.s'. popular media. Lcr.in considered films the mow invortant of the arts. Russians are avid movie poors. Tickets cost 50 ko pecks too cents) or less and attendance, this year is ex pected to break the 4 billion mark. Five hundred movie thea !t rs are built in towns every year, wilh town dwellers at tending an average of 21 ti'r,e a year and country dwellers H times a yea in the remote regions. Moscow, wiih a population of seven million, has 114 mo vie theaters, and several doz en cinema clubs attached to various institutions. Theaters Small The closest thing to a western-type "movie palace" is the "Rossiya" theater. built at the time of the 1961 film fesitval, which act-mo-dates 1,500 persons and has special snack bar and foyers. Most other theaters are small, holding only several hundred spectators. Khrushchev's critical words on film art raised fears the Communist party would make a crackdown on the industry. "We cannot be impassive to the ideological trend of cinematography or the artis tic merits of pictures released on the screen," he said in March. "In this respect affairs in the movie world are far from being as rosy as many cinematographers imagine." In the 1950's, the party's control brought film-making practically to a halt. In Stal in's last years, production was down to six pictures a year. Now it is planned at 155, but a number in particular the avant - garde "The Gatepost of Uyich" are being held up while revision goes on. Russian filming dates back to the nation's first newreel. May 14, 1896, of the corona tion of Nicholas Il-last of the Romanov Czars. Regular production began in 1907 and by 1917 more than 2,000 films had been turned out. Then, as now, it was a wide source of enter tainment and the early films borrowed heavily from Rus sian classics such as "The Brothers Karamazov," "Anna Karenina" and others. "War and Peace" Oddly, the Russians ncvetr attempted to capture one of their greatest masterpieces "War and Peace" until re cently. It is now being filmed as a three-part extravaganza to top the American version. The production has become something of a "Cleopatra" and jokes are sometimes cracked about the thousands of Arabian horses imported for some of the scenes. One of the great early di rectors was Sergei Eisenstein, a pupil of the noted theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold. Eisenstein later worked in Hollywood with Paramount. But his renown rested with "Battleship Potemkin" which, incidentally was banned in Philadelphia as a sailors' "Blueprint to Mutiny." Among his other great works were "Ten Days That Shook the World," "Alexan der Ncvsky" and "Ivan the Terrible." 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I methods, tor crossing himself or prny-j when a western correspon-1 Soviet intellectuals have ins to God. , dent asked actress Irina Skob- j vvider sccess t0 many western But for the most pari, war- Iseva about her measure-1 fnn,s through private clubs time films were tirades menu, published in a western I which have shown such dar against Fascism, although dur-' magazine, she answered: jng ihns as "La Dolce Viia" ing the Hitler-Stalin non-ag-, i have no idea where they never exhibited publicly. srcssiim p.tci mi lulus nnui could nave learned mine.! of Germany were allowed. Such statistics are not the : At war's end. vast film tal- custom here." i cm ana energy wem mm 11- 1 ncip is considerable in-1 lercst here in foreign tech-! niques, and in recent years j new wave" and lifying the United States. Military commanders, sen-, ators, industrialists and Wall Si reel tycoons were mocked Ajnerican soldiers were de picted as drunken, lascivious savages who ravished girls and beat Negroes. Despite the strong revival in production after Stalin output jumped from 2S in 1053 to 1U8 in 19K2 the threat remains of the censor's scis sors. "The Gatepost of llyich" is nn example. This movie, based on a script by director-writer team Ma.-len Khutsiyev and llen nacll Shpalikov, was praised by knowledgeable critics but t,.j blasU-d by Khrushchev. Premier Objects The premier claimed il was not representative of Soviet youth and admitted of u fath-er-son problem. Oner of the mnsl con I rover-1 sial scenes concerns a dream. 1 by a young man in which his dead hither suddenly appears. "How old are you?" asks ; the fnllicr. "I am 23,'' Hie youth re plies. And I am 21," (he father answers, vanishing. The suggestion was that the father, younger than his son, ' could not offer him advice. -This struck the premier's cherished idea thai t lie older generation, can and should lead the young. It is si ill uncertain whether ' this film will now be released. In postwar years, Soviet films have been largely con cerned wilh war tales, rcvolu- -liouiiry and war epics, and , something akin lo Ihc Ameri can musical film. Children's films are many, But there are no real detective movies and many second rate productions dubbed "tractor epics" by westerners living here. One such was aclmilly called "The Queen of Ihe Gasoline Pump." One M Ihe best known con temporary Soviet films is "When The Cranes Arc Fly ing," the story of a doomed wartime love 'affair between two youngster's. It won first prize at Ihc Ca.nnes Film Festival. State Controls Unlike the American movie industry, Soviet productions are under the control of slate bodies and financed by the government. They come under Ihe direc- 1 lion of Ihe slale committee for cinema and "Gorky Sludios ", in Leningrad, "Lenfilm" and various others in different cities. Aclois pay can vary from S200 lo $40(1 a month, which , is considered rather high here. ' There is no Russian "Holly wood" - although movie pro duction chief Boris Shumyat sky wanted lo create one on French American films which have been very popular here are "Inherit The Wind", "The Magnificent Seven", "Roman Holiday." But on the other hand both "Oklahoma" and "Marty" were flops. the I TRUCKLOAD M I 235 Lb. ROOFING and I $ CEILING TILE I T l.WXKIIIIB fiKffiLfc-; !S I 235 LB. ROOFING I 'i i ' 1150 n A P A W Per Sq. j j Less 5 CASH & CARRY j fj b. : ill I CEILING TILE i I Hfto lira I ON ALL PATTERNS 8,1 J CASH and CARRY J H ALSO SEE THE NEW CELOTEX M ;f SUSPENDED CEILING TILE SYSTEM H Pilot Bulls Inn Sals To Proceed Portland - H.I'I' - .Federal Judge William G Eist has ordered the U.S. marshal In proceed with a puhlic snle of the Pilot Butte Inn al Bend Thursday. East ruled after a hearing here that the U.S. District Court has jurisdiction ' in the case and denied an attempt by the owners of the Bond hotel to remand the case- back to state courts. ! 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