Andrea talks with our Cultural Concierge, Jesse Kornbluth. This week Kornbluth wants everyone to watch the 1938 Russian film Alexander Nevsky, which he says has one of the greatest soundtracks in film ...

Eisenstein's 1938 epic has Marxist heroes liberating the proletariat, evil Nazi stand-ins and a massive-scale 'deflowering'. But the battle scenes are spectacular Director: Sergei Eisenstein ...

This is from “Alexander Nevsky,” the 1938 film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Music by Prokofiev. The snippet shows the beginning of “The Battle of the Ice,” an actual battle on April 5, 1242 when the ...

For those of us who last saw Sergei Eisenstein’s “Alexander Nevsky” via 16mm print in a high school film class, or maybe on DVD at home, watching it on a sizable screen at Benaroya Hall is, well, ...

It is difficult to accurately praise Alexander Nevsky because Sergei Eisenstein, the main reason for its existence and excellence, is incomparably above his fellow directors. When, in the course of ...

The hot ticket for this year's Festival is, without question, the screening of Sergie Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. Sergei Prokofiev's impassioned score is performed live by the ...

Nothing like slaughter, slander and noxious nationalism to get the music season back into gear after the holidays. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, which has a cinematic theme woven through its ...

This season, the Houston Symphony has dared to do a few things differently — like the concert presentation of the great Russian film Alexander Nevsky. With music director Hans Graf guiding the live ...

If you haven’t already watched Sergei Eisenstein’s movie, Alexander Nevsky, I recommend that you look for it and watch it, regardless of whether it’s a 1938 black and white film or not. Not only ...

What a night it was for cinephiles and classical music lovers. It was a sandwich comprised of what is considered one of the best 100 films of all time, ALEXANDER NEVSKY along with a powerful score by ...