Battleship Potemkin (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 11 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 20, 2010
- Originally Released: 1925
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alexander Antonov | |
Performer: | Vladimir Barsky, Mikhail Goronov & Grigori Alexandrov | |
Directed by | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
Entertainment Reviews:
The director displays a vivid imagination and an artistic appreciation of motion picture values.
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New York Times
The thing that matters is that Soviet [cinema], while being propagandist, contains a use of all the different branches of film-making which is recognised and practised in no other country.
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Guardian
Battleship Potemkin is agitprop, but cinematically magnificent agitprop...
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Turner Classic Movies Online
[A] dazzling piece of virtuoso filmmaking....Packed with movement, incident and beauty, this is no fusty museum piece but a thrilling jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 5/5 --
Nearly 90 years on, Eisenstein's masterpiece is still guaranteed to get the pulse racing.
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Total Film
For all Potemkin's rabble-rousing propaganda, Eisenstein's aestheticism is everywhere apparent.
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Village Voice
The cinema's first modernist... was the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein. As his most famous work, Battleship Potemkin, from 1925, shows, his analytical, quasi-scientific methods bore the mark of both aesthetic and political upheavals.
New Yorker
Product Description:
Sergei Eisenstein's film of the famed Odessa revolt has been one of the landmarks of cinema since its release. Commissioned by the government to commemorate the failed uprising of 1905, it's without stars or even actors in the usual sense, exemplifying the collectivism it celebrates. The Battleship Potemkin has just returned from the war with Japan, its crew near mutiny because of brutal treatment and bad rations. When they're served maggot-infested meat one morning, the sailors finally rebel. One of the sailors, Vakulinchuk (Aleksandr Antonov), dissuades the officers from firing upon the mutineers, and they join the rest of the crew in revolt. Hearing of the mutiny, the people of Odessa send supplies to express their solidarity with the crew and gather en masse to mourn a slain sailor. The czar's troops arrive to dispel the crowd. In perhaps the most famous sequence in film history, the director rhymically intercuts shots of the troops marching machinelike down the Odessa steps with shots of innocent citizens being killed and wounded, in a brilliant embodiment of the director's theories of montage. Aside from CITIZEN KANE, perhaps the most perfectly constructed film ever made, the film's vision of tyranny and rebellion remain as powerful today as it was in 1925.
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