Sergei Eisenstein Articles

Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand in Vincente Minnelli's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever At Film Threat, Phil Hall comes up with a follow-up to his 2008 article about important lost films. Among the 50 titles on Hall's highly eclectic new list are a version of Carmen (1915) starring Fox vamp Theda Bara; The Life of General Villa (1914), in which Mexican revolutionary Pancho [...]

Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein "Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking" (January 25 — February 14, 2008) at New York City's Film Society of Lincoln Center: "Although early film shows took place in Russia soon after the invention of cinema (Maxim Gorky's book In the Kingdom of Shadows, published July 4, 1896, is one of the most beautiful early descriptions of cinema), continuous, serious film [...]

Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin: The Odessa Steps Massacre The 55th Berlin Film Festival will present a reconstructed version of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 classic Battleship Potemkin, considered by many film scholars one of — if not the — greatest motion picture ever made. Battleship Potemkin was originally commissioned by the Russian communist leaders to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Odessa uprising, during which mutinous sailors [...]