Torture for the audience Sep 1, 2008
When Haneke lectures film students in Vienna, he sometimes shows them Harrison Ford in Air Force One, juxtaposing that film with Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph Of The Will. "The point is to show that Air Force One has a political message every bit as much as the other two. But with Hollywood films, the manipulation of the viewer is so total that they don't know they're being manipulated." He argues that the storytelling devices common in Hollywood are no longer... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
MFA series focuses on epic age of Russian cinema Aug 31, 2008
Although the series will feature canonical works like Eisenstein's "The Battleship Potemkin" and Andrei Tarkovsky's "The Mirror," it will also highlight lesser-known genre films like the 1934 musical "Jolly Fellows" and the 1959 Kalatozov "The Letter Never Sent," a film that was influenced by American Westerns. The MFA is also bringing back "War and Peace" (1968), "a spectacular, epic production" that screened to sellout crowds there last Christmas, according to Bo Smith, head of film/video at... (Boston Globe)
Maestro primed for a baton change Aug 26, 2008
Shostakovich turns up elsewhere in the form of his 10th symphony and first violin concerto and, in the Kaleidoscope series, his music for the silent film The Battleship Potemkin. Richard Hickox, the musical director of Opera Australia, will conduct an all-Vaughan Williams program, including the original longer version of the London Symphony. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
My 20-year love affair with skiffle Jun 1, 2008
Since the late Eighties I figure I've clocked up around a thousand hours of skiffle gigging - the equivalent of watching Citizen Kane over 500 times, or 800 viewings of Battleship Potemkin. In my wake I have left behind me a trail of battered and bruised instruments, none of which I could ever play 'properly' (at least in not the classical sense), but all of which I have enjoyed bashing and breaking immensely. (Guardian Unlimited)
Speed Racer runs the audience over May 7, 2008
Critics will no doubt be comparing this latest production by the Wachowskis (The Matrix trilogy) to cartoons or video games, but next to Speed Racer, even candy-colored Japanese creations like Paprika or Katamari Damacy resemble the grim monochrome of Battleship Potemkin. . (MSNBC -- Movies)
* [BOOK REVIEW] 'Fear not for the future, weep not for the past' Mar 30, 2008
Films such as Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and October displayed the Russian Revolution with little regard for dissenting viewpoints, and The Killing Fields showed the agony of Cambodia in the 1970s very directly. Despite Lin's sympathetic analyses of what Taiwan's artists have managed to come up with, it can still be argued that something far more hard-hitting, and of epic stature, in literature and film, is both possible and desirable. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Building Kazakhstan, one film at a time Feb 25, 2008
Sergei Eisenstein, the high priest of Soviet film who turned propaganda into art ("Battleship Potemkin," "Ivan the Terrible") in fact used studios in Almaty during World War II.. For a country with a weak sense of where it came from and insecurity about its future, these films are the cinematic equivalent of nation-building. (International Herald Tribune)
Hollywood never lets facts get in the way of a good story Jan 24, 2008
The movie is worth checking out for its amazing homage to Battleship Potemkin alone. LITTLE BIG MAN (1970): Set as an old man's remembrances of the changing West, Little Big Man stars Dustin Hoffman -- an actor who just screams cowboy hero -- as an unlikely everyman who runs up against Wild Bill Hickok, Col. George Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, among others. (The Augusta Chronicle)
More of this story Jan 17, 2008
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Never mind the bum notes Jan 4, 2008
Pet Shop Boys with the BBC Concert Orchestra11 January, Barbican, London EC2The synthpop duo's soundtrack to Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. Post this article to. (New Statesman)
Other DVD gifts that are sure to please Dec 21, 2007
Battleship Potemkin ($30). One of the most historic films of all time gets a makeover scenes added back and the 1925 film restored with a new English translation and surround-sound score and a documentary on what it took. (USA Today -- Life)
Citizen Kane tops critics' poll Dec 12, 2007
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 1925 9. 8 1/2 (Fellini) 1963 10. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
DVD Review: Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin Nov 12, 2007
This was generally thought to be the case with Sergei Eisensteins 1925 Battleship Potemkin; though the film was not wrecked in the same manner that others were, shots and intertitles were removed for political and social reasons and were thought to be irretrievable ... Eisenstein sought to tell the story of the Battleship Potemkin uprising in 1905 in order to inspire his comrades towards Bolshevism ... As countless filmmakers continue to turn back to Battleship Potemkin for inspiration and as... (Yale Herald, CT)
New on DVD: Don Cheadle has plenty to 'Talk' about Nov 2, 2007
New and improved: Reissued in versions that appear definitive are directors Sergei Eisenstein's landmark Battleship Potemkin (1925, Kino, unrated, $30) and Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960, Criterion, unrated, $40). Whittled, refashioned and otherwise compromised for decades, BattleshipPotemkin has now been restored as much as possible by A-list archival institutions. (USA Today -- Life)
Debating film criticism Oct 27, 2007
Of the current crop of pics that are in awards contention, French reserves most of his praise for Joe Wright's "Atonement," particularly the Dunkirk beach sequence that he says bore comparison with the Odessa steps sequence in "Battleship Potemkin.". Cosmo Landesman, the Sunday Times' 52-year-old chief critic, disagrees. (Variety)
Mill Valley values Sep 28, 2007
Bier will attend, joining helmers such as Ben Affleck ("Gone Baby Gone"), Tony Gilroy ("Michael Clayton"), Alison Eastwood ("Rails ), Mary Lambert ("Fourteen Women") and Gavin Hood ("Rendition").As usual, the Mill Valley fest --held in Marin County, where many rich vintage rockers went out to pasture -- is big on live-music programming. This year, the Marin Symphony performs Shostakovich's original score to Eisenstein's projected silent masterpiece "Battleship Potemkin. " A TBA lineup of... (Variety)
Ram Gopal Varma ka private joke Sep 6, 2007
When the Battleship Potemkin sequence of a pram rolling down the Odessa Steps is reprised in Grand Central station in Brian de Palmas The Untouchables, and during a bank robbery scene in N. Chandras Tezaab, theres a difference. Sholay teaches you that difference. (Indian Express)
Trance-former Jul 5, 2007
Honestly, its not like I went into a film based on a merchandising concept expecting Battleship Potemkin or The Terminator or even Spider-man. But I could at least hope for Spider-man 3, until I remembered: Michael Bay. (LA City Beat)
Movie sequel is real thrill ride May 18, 2007
" But that was only because there was something charmingly entertaining about its knowing silliness. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's "28 Weeks Later," however, is in a different class altogether. It is not an agreeably dumb time-passer like "Freddy vs. Jason" - it is a mean, smart, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride.Taking place 28 weeks after Danny Boyle's haunting 2003 original "28 Days Later," "28 Weeks Later" finds survivors of the "rage" virus that decimated Britain and turned its citizens into... (Foster's Daily Democrat)
The Cinema of Possibilities Apr 5, 2007
Eisenstein did this with close-ups of people, shots of stone lions and of men shooting in the Odessa Steps sequence of The Battleship Potemkin. Meyer did it with a nude in a headdress jumping around on a sofa in the wilderness intercut with scenes of a dressed couple in the middle of an emotionally intense argument in Cherry, Harry, and Raquel. (Austin Chronicle)
These flicks are deep Dec 9, 2006
And these: The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), Moolaade (2004), Breaker Morant (1980), Walkabout (1971), Noi the Albino (2003), The World of Apu (1959), Battleship Potemkin (1925), Hero (2002), No Man s Land (2001). And these: My Dinner With Andre (1981), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Blowup (1966), Secrets and Lies (1996) and Donnie Darko (2001). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Wonderful World Dec 5, 2006
It is no surprise, then, to learn that the director of Battleship Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible was a Disneyphile. The work of this master, Eisenstein claimed, is the greatest contribution of the American people to art. (New Yorker)
JOHN WALKE: The only espresso house in town Nov 25, 2006
He offered a gallery for local artists, occasional poetry readings, performances by Lightnin' Hopkins, Flamenco guitarist Juan Serrano and his sister, Amparo, and others; Friday midnight movies for $1: "Rashamon," "Intolerance," "Ballad of A Soldier," "Birth of a Nation," "Battleship Potemkin," "Citizen Kane." The place seated 70, but the tables were pushed aside to accommodate floor seating. Spontaneous performances by customers broke out, one in particular a female Israeli accordionist... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Daydream believers Oct 27, 2006
2004 The duo compose a soundtrack for Sergei Eisenstein's classic 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin, and perform it at a free concert in Trafalgar Square with the Dresdner Sinfoniker. 2005 The Pet Shop Boys headline the Moscow Live 8 concert in Red Square. (New Statesman)
6 other movies that take you straight to the top Oct 24, 2006
As evidenced in countless films, from "Battleship Potemkin" to "Spider-Man 2," power is one of the most enduring of all cinematic subjects. Here are six other films that offer uncommonly perceptive takes on what it takes to get ahead; on how some leaders are born and how others are made; and why you should never, ever take a job for a guy who is prone to flinging his phone across the room. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Entertainment)
For Pet Shop Boys, a `Fundamental' difference between US, UK Oct 13, 2006
We scored the silent Russian film `Battleship Potemkin. That's been really successful. (Boston Globe)
Pilger: Subversive Documentary Sep 16, 2006
Although its historical roots are often traced back to the work of Robert Flaherty, the American director who made Nanook of the North in 1922, and John Grierson, the British documentarist whose first film was premiered at a London double bill with Battleship Potemkin in1929, in Britain the modern documentary's political power is often measured against a specious neutrality invented by John Reith, founder of the BBC, while he was writing and broadcasting anti-trade union propaganda during the... (Zmag.org)
Dutch band Voicst hopes to make some noise in US Aug 11, 2006
"BITS & PIECES. Tonight Lots to choose from around town: Throwing Muses are at the Middle East Downstairs, with Muses singer Kristin Hersh's 50 Foot Wave opening. The New Year is at the Middle East Upstairs. Paramore and Hit the Lights are at Axis. Emergency Music is at P.A.'s Lounge. Ad Frank and the Fast Easy Women are at the Abbey Lounge. Blues rocker James Montgomery is at Johnny D's. Reverse is at Bill's Bar. The Ray Mason Band is at the Tir Na Nog. The indie-rock burlesque troupe the Easy... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Documentary is a wake-up call Jul 28, 2006
Not since Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" in 1925 has a movie so passionately called its viewers to action. The difference here is, this isn't mere propaganda. (Foster's Daily Democrat)
AT LAST THE BOYS ARE BACK May 20, 2006
What did you learn about your own music from composing Battleship Potemkin ... Chris: I think Battleship Potemkin will be something we will be performing for a long time because it exists as a piece and an outside performance. (The Sun Newspaper Online, UK -- Bizarre)
In praise of the low road May 13, 2006
It might be The Wizard of Oz, it might be the first experience of Battleship Potemkin or War and Peace or it might be something nobody else can stand such as Bertolucci's Luna. It doesn't matter. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Pet Shop Boys to give huge free gig Mar 17, 2006
The electronic music specialists will team up with the world-renowned Northern Sinfonia orchestra to perform a live version of their soundtrack of the classic film Battleship Potemkin. The 1925 black and white silent movie has been critically acclaimed as one of the cultural highlights of the 20th century and tells the story of the failed 1904 uprising in Russia by revolutionary sailors. (Manchester Evening News)
