Jordan "Slap" Oct 29, 2009
no banner, no logo, only resizeable option Brand: Agency: Review Date: October 28, 2009 These days, a 60-second commercial (on the rare occasions when you see one) can seem as long as Ivan the Terrible Part 1 plus Ivan the Terrible Part 2. As such, perhaps the most notable achievement of this 60-second spot for Nike's Jordan brand (via Wieden+Kennedy) is that it seems to go by so quickly. (AdWeek)
Demjanjuk trial set for November Oct 7, 2009
DEMJANJUK CASE TIMELINE 1952: Gains entry into the US, claiming he spent most of the war as a German prisoner 1977: First charged with war crimes, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" 1981: Stripped of US citizenship 1986: Extradited to Israel 1993: Israeli Supreme Court overturns conviction, ruling that he is not Ivan the Terrible 2002: Loses US citizenship after a judge said there was proof he worked at Nazi camps 2005: A judge rules in favour of deportation to his native Ukraine 2009: Germany... (BBC News -- Europe)
2 artists use found images to create new works Aug 22, 2009
One from the 1940s records Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and collaborators absorbed in designing sets for "Ivan the Terrible, Part II," a moment of inherently high documentary interest. Another, circa 1930, simply shows a freight train crossing a bridge near a site of heavy industry in Czechoslovakia. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A river ride, a dip without water, and thoughts Aug 11, 2009
Kirov tied-up at Uglich, and the Cathedral of St. Dmitry on the Blood, named for Ivan the Terrible s youngest son. The blood was Dmitry s. Someone cut his nine-year-old throat there. (Braintree Forum, MA)
Controlling history Jul 25, 2009
"They always feel that Russia since, you know, Ivan the Terrible, is a certain country which is off the European civilisation.". In August there will be such a yelling about the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, saying that that was the step that led to the Second World War. (BBC News -- Europe)
MORE THAN GOOD ENOUGH Jul 24, 2009
Staged, like the recent "Les Ephemeres," on a long catwalk situated between two sides of the audience at the Park Avenue Armory, the play depicts the power struggle that occurs after the death of Ivan the Terrible. Ultimately succeeding him as czar is Boris Godunov (Alexander Feklistov), who may well have murdered Ivan's youngest son, Dimitry, to achieve his ends. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Outfest opens at the Orpheum Theatre Jul 9, 2009
As my colleague Kenneth Turan mentions above, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art screens Sergei Eisenstein's final film, the two-part historical epic "Ivan the Terrible, Parts I Friday and Saturday evening. The first part of the film chronicling Russia's first czar was released in the USSR in 1944. Presenting Ivan as a hero, the film was warmly embraced by Joseph Stalin. But not so the second part, which was completed in 1946. In that, Eisenstein offered a less sympathetic portrayal. The film... (Multichannel News)
Death by a Thousand Director's Cuts Jun 24, 2009
Compare, for instance, the audiovisual essays of Joan Neuberger and Yuri Tsivian on the of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible with these writers' on the same subject. Or compare Tag Gallagher's analysis of Max Ophls' Earrings of Madame de with his about Ophls for the Australian Web site , which focuses on the same scene from the same film. (Slate)
White House: Firing AmeriCorps IG an act of 'political courage'... Jun 19, 2009
" its_over Jun 18, 2009 So glad the Glorious Leader fired him, how dare Walpin question any of the savior's apostles!! Jeb Jun 18, 2009 ...and remember the whining because GWB fired US Attys? It amazes me how Obama gets passes on things such as this when they would crucify Bush. Bill Jun 18, 2009 This is the result of putting a community polariser with a mental disorder in the white house that came from the most corrupt city in the US. democrat no longer! Jun 18, 2009 Did you all here that? THAT... (The Drudge Report)
Movie-based game makes Smithsonian museums come alive Jun 5, 2009
But perhaps the coolest thing is that they get to interact with famous people in history including Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon, Teddy Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Al Capone and others as they run around in these famous museums ... For example, when trying to evade some of Ivan the Terrible's henchmen, Larry will find himself trapped in an art museum. (USA Today -- Tech)
- Wanted man is nabbed at port 0 Jun 2, 2009
Ivan Javier Alvarado, 31, a documented gang member known as Ivan the Terrible to federal agents, was wanted for a homicide case out of San Diego, said Deputy U.S. Marshal Fernando Zamudio. An arrest warrant was issued March 22, 2006, by the San Diego County Superior Court for a homicide that occurred in January of that same year, Zamudio said. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Selected Portraits by Ilya Repin May 31, 2009
The subject matter of Repin s paintings ranges from scenes of rowdy Cossacks to the grueling labors of the Volga Boatman, to the death of the son of Ivan the Terrible. His portraits include his wife and family and everyday people, along with major figures of Repin s day, like author Ivan Turgenev and composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. (Suite101.com)
Review: Too much crammed into one `Night' May 23, 2009
Go and Do - Central Valley, CA Entertainment Guide. Enter Zip Code to search local listings. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Review: Battlefield Monumental In 'Museum 2' May 23, 2009
" In the original, Larry Daley's night job at New York's Museum of Natural History made him realize that he was destined for greater things after he survived a night in which exhibits came to life.Two years later, he has left the museum to become the inventor of infomercial gadgets, including his latest, the glow in the dark flashlight, and George Foreman as his sidekick. While he enjoys the fortune his products have afforded him, something is missing. Meanwhile, he learns that his favorite... (KFOXTV.com, TX)
'Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian': Full House, By Kurt Loder May 23, 2009
Briefly, a lisping Smithsonian pharaoh called Kahmunrah (Azaria, brilliantly channeling Boris Karloff), is determined to find the misplaced Tablet and use it to "unlock the gates of the Underworld." To assist him in this nefarious mission, he has recruited a wildly unlikely crew of historical henchmen: Ivan the Terrible (reliably deadpan Christopher Guest), Napoleon (Alain Chabat, approximating Peter Sellers) and Al Capone (Jon Bernthal, hulking through the film in glorious black-and-white).... (VHI.com -- Music News)
A magical, hilarious 'Night at the Museum' May 23, 2009
He enlists a few notable conquerors to be his generals, namely Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest), Napoleon Bonaparte (Alain Chabat) and Al Capone (Jon Bernthal). Amy Adams, playing Amelia Earhart, provides a wonderful sidekick/love interest for Larry. (Rexburg Standard Journal, ID)
Review: 'Museum' sequel is enjoyably silly May 23, 2009
The film is a history-of-the-world burlesque in which such drolly self-centered icons as General Custer (Bill Hader), Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest), and Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria) -- a made-up pharoah who lisps with the enthusiasm of Boris Karloff on his own reality show -- collide happily with a living army of Albert Einstein bobblehead dolls, plus stone-carved angels who sing "More Than a Woman" and "The Thinker" come to life as a Brooklyn deadbeat. This is what you call a wholesome... (CNN -- Showbiz)
'Night at the Museum' May 22, 2009
In addition to reuniting with his old pals, Larry comes face to face with the power-mad Kahmun-rah along with Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest), Napoleon Bonaparte (Alain Chabat), Al Capone (Jon Bernthal) and Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams). If the Egyptian ruler succeeds in freeing his Army of the Underworld, he can take over the museum and expand his empire from there. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Not much new or funny in second visit to 'Museum' May 22, 2009
People, Mr. Daly, want the next thing," says a character to ex-museum guard Larry Daly (Ben Stiller) in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," and there's Hollywood's rationale for sequelitis in an over-budgeted, computer-generated nutshell. The follow-up to the surprise 2006 hit movie reeks of No. 2: It's bigger, noisier, shinier, and dumber, and it has no earthly reason to exist. The kids will scarf it down like junk food and move on.Still, let's savor the few pieces of wit that... (Boston Globe)
Another Night at the Museum: More Monkey Business May 22, 2009
The Tuskegee airmen face off against Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Al Capone. Even big old marble Abe Lincoln gets to take his shot. (Time.com)
* [ FILM REVIEW] : A must-see Museum May 22, 2009
STARRING: Ben Stiller (Larry Daley), Amy Adams (Amelia Earhart), Owen Wilson (Jedediah Smith), Hank Azaria (Kahmunrah/The Thinker/Abe Lincoln), Robin Williams (Teddy Roosevelt), Christopher Guest (Ivan the Terrible), Alain Chabat (Napoleon Bonaparte), Steve Coogan (Octavius) ... His brother Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria, sporting a Boris Karloff lisp) wants the tablet to unleash his Army of the Dead and conquer the world with his accomplices: Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest), Napoleon Bonaparte... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Oleg Yankovsky, Russian actor May 21, 2009
"Tsar," the Pavel Lungin film in which Mr. Yankovsky plays his last film role as Metropolitan Filipp, the childhood friend and adviser to Ivan the Terrible, screened at the Cannes film festival in the Un Certain Regard section on May 17 and is scheduled to open in Russia this fall. Actor Robert De Niro, a friend, visited Mr. Yankovsky last month while in Moscow for the opening of the Nobu restaurant. (Boston Globe)
'Night at the Museum 2' exhibits excessive chaos May 21, 2009
Levy brings back favorites from the first movie and introduces legions of new characters, from Pharaoh Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria) to Gen. George Armstrong Custer (Bill Hader), Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest) and Einstein bobble-heads (Eugene Levy). Ben Stiller's Larry Daley, who has gone from night guard to corporate honcho, is called on to rescue his exhibit friends being put in storage at the Smithsonian. (USA Today -- Life)
A seemingly endless Battle of the Smithsonian May 20, 2009
The reincarnated pharaoh uses the plate to revive Napoleon (French actor-director Alain Chabat), Ivan the Terrible (Guest) and Al Capone (Jon Bernthal). Its up to Larry with the help of Jedediah, roman soldier Octavius (Coogan) and the newly awakened Amelia Earhart (Adams) to foil the scheme before dawn. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Night at the Museum Games May 20, 2009
Or have you dreamed about battling the Russian tyrant Ivan the Terrible, but only if he looked a lot like Spinal Tap's ... The film of course stars , returning from the mega-success of the first Night for more adventures with historical-figures-come-to-life -- including as legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart, as villainous Egyptian pharaoh Kahmunrah, as Ivan the Terrible, and more. (IGN FilmForce)
A summons from history; Demjanjuk deported at last May 14, 2009
In 1977, the government began its effort to strip him of his citizenship after Holocaust survivors identified him as brutal Treblinka concentration-camp guard Ivan the Terrible. After his 1981 trial, a federal judge revoked his citizenship for lying about his wartime role as a Nazi guard in order to illegally enter the U.S.. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Demjanjuk in German prison for Nazi guard charges May 13, 2009
Demjanjuk had been tried in Israel after accusations surfaced that he was the notorious "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka death camp in Poland. He was found guilty in 1988 of war crimes and crimes against humanity but the conviction was overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court. (FOX 11, AZ)
Night at the Museum: Battle of th... May 13, 2009
Har har har), the evil brother of Egyptain dude Ahkmenrah from the first flick, and quickly recruits the reanimated likenesses of Al Capone, Ivan the Terrible and Napoleon to help open a portal to take over the world. Fun. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
* Ex-Nazi guard deported to Germany May 13, 2009
He was condemned to death in Israel in 1988 after he was convicted of being the sadistic Nazi guard nicknamed Ivan the Terrible, who would hack naked prisoners to death with a sword. However, the verdict was overturned by Israels Supreme Court in 1993 when statements from former guards identified another man as Ivan the Terrible. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Annals Of CourtWatch: Why I Love My Job Apr 16, 2009
The Department of Justice first accused this guy of being Holocaust death-camp guard Ivan the Terrible in 1977. I was 11 years old at the time and was fascinated by the case. (CBS News)
Ohio's Demjanjuk is denied stay of deportation Apr 11, 2009
It was revoked in 1981 based on Justice Department allegations that he had served as the notorious Nazi guard "Ivan the Terrible" in Poland at the Treblinka death camp ... He appealed, and Israel's Supreme Court in 1993 ruled that evidence indicated that Demjanjuk was not Ivan the Terrible and allowed him to return to the United States ... It no longer alleges he was Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Accused Nazi guard faces deportation to Germany Apr 7, 2009
In 1987, he was extradited to Israel, where he was accused of being the Nazi guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka extermination camp, also in what is today Poland. After seven years in Israeli custody, a court there acquitted him. (Christian Science Monitor)
Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Pixar have kids flicks Mar 25, 2009
Guest plays Ivan the Terrible. Worth seeing. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Former Nazi camp guard Demjanjuk charged 29,000 times... Mar 12, 2009
Demjanjuk was extradited to Israel in 1986, when the U.S. Justice Department believed he was the sadistic Nazi guard known as Ivan the Terrible from the Treblinka death camp. He spent seven years in custody before the Israeli high court freed him after receiving evidence that another Ukrainian was that Nazi guard. (The Drudge Report)
