Friday, May 24, 2013

"The Battleship Potemkin" / "Potemkin" (1925)

This was a Sergei Eisenstein, Russian montage movie.  If the music doesn't already stand by itself in concert somewhere, it should.  This reconstructed version says its music is composed by Edmund Meisel in 1926 and its adaptation and instrumentation in 2005.  Regardless, the music is just fantastic.  The plot:  yep, supportive of the Russian Revolution.  Still, I liked the look at the end of the battleship gearing up--a team working together, people and machines in harmony, and a glimpse into the workings of a 1920s battleship.  (I won't spoil the context for it or result of it.)  Montage is an interesting way of constructing things.  Wouldn't mind watching more of that style, ...  , I think.  It's hard to distinguish Russian montage from Russian movie.  Might have to see a non-Russian montage picture first--or a montage picture on the other side of the political spectrum--, in order to know better.

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