Notes of a film director (1959)

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CONTENTS Page Foreword 5, ABOUT MYSELF AND MY FILMS How I Became a Film Director 9 The Twelve Apostles 18 Alexander Nevsky 32 True Ways of Invention {Alexander Nevsky) 43 PROBLEMS OF FILM DIRECTION Organic Unity and Pathos in the Composition of Potemkin 53 Montage in 1938 62 "An American Tragedy" 98 A Few Thoughts About Soviet Comedy 106 Wolves and Sheep (Directors and Actors) 112 Not Coloured, but in Colour 114 Colour Film 119 Stereoscopic Films 129 PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS The Greatest Creative Honesty 138 The Birth of an Artist HO Twenty-Five and Fifteen 145 P-R-K-F-V 149 The Telephone Betrays . . . : 151 Charlie the Kid = 167 Hello, Charlie! I97 1* 8