DOVZHENKO'S FILMS
Stn,—I stand, in part, corrected. But Grigori Roshal devotes almost two pages out of three to Dovzhenko's major works—namely, Earth and the much more recent Chors (which Mr. Ray has no doubt seen)—and one longish paragraph to his waa..work. In the next chapter Roman Karmen refers to the fact that during the war many feature-film directors " joined the documentary cinema," Dovzhenko among them. Dovzhenko's war films probably bear the same relation to his total output as does The True Glory to that of Cavil Reed. I am sorry, too, that Mr. Ray, whom I have long admired as a film critic, should in his letter show such a lack of interest in the past. The book he was reviewing covers a great dcal-of film work which is much more than " twenty years away." Earth, like Potemkin, Greed and Intolerance, remains a masterpiece. Dovzhenko's new film Michurin is now in this country, and I hope to see it in Mr. Ray's company; as it is in colour, I do not think we shall need to argue overmuch about "the juxtaposition of newsreel
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