Kino

by Jay Leyda

Leyda knew Soviet cinema from the inside, and he decided in the 50s that he would write a proper history about it… I think it’s an absolute model. It’s one of those books, and there are just a handful of them, that when you go back to it – I’ve been going back to it for decades now ­– you always find different things in. They were always there but you never noticed them.