>> However some reviewers, such as the Village Voice's J.
>> Hoberman (who actually liked the film), did point
>> out the Eisenstein discrepancy.

but does it matter? . . . does anyone go to movies expecting
accuracy in historical recreation?? . . . or is this another
version of what hitchcock famously called "the plausuibles,"
those people who take a special delight in pointing out
places where the director violated some idea of plausibility?

mike frank

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