1925: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein) Helen Grace November 2017 100 Years of Soviet Cinema Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin, 1925, USSR, 75 mins) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein; Writer: Sergei Eisenstein and Nina Agadzhanova Shutko; Cinematography: Eduard Tisse; Original music: Edmund Meisel...
Gde Mama? (“Where’s Mother?”): Russian Resurrection Film Festival Helen Grace October 2004 Festival Reports Even though they record moments which may never appear in the film, production stills are strangely powerful instruments, constructing in retrospect the moods and memories of a production – a bit like the a...
Ivan the Terrible by Yuri Tsivian (BFI Classics, 2002); October by Richard Taylor (BFI Classics, 2002) Helen Grace July 2002 Book Reviews In the concluding paragraph of Citizen Kane (BFI Classics, 1992), Laura Mulvey argues that this film has, built into its structure, the need to think back and reflect on what has taken place in the main body as...
Battleship Potemkin Helen Grace March 2000 CTEQ Annotations on Film Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin, 1925, USSR, 75 mins) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein; Writer: Sergei Eisenstein and Nina Agadzhanova Shutko; Cinematography: Eduard Tisse; Original music: Edmund Meisel and...
