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Battleship Potemkin (The Ultimate Edition) (2pc) (Full B&W)
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	List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $24.99 You Save: $4.96 *Features* • Black & White • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 1925 DVD Release : 23 October, 2007
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Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatization of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of movement, shots of varying length to build the rhythm, close-ups for perspective and shock effect, and symbolic imagery for commentary, all to create one of the most cinematically exciting sequences in film history. Eisenstein's film is Marxist propaganda to be sure, but the power of this masterpiece lies not in its preaching but its poetry. --Sean Axmaker

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"History of Cinema" edition

I just watched the "History of Cinema" edition with the documentary on Eisenstein. It was quite watchable and moving.

It drives me crazy the way films get chopped up and then marketed with no details about the mutilation and it takes lot of work to even hope to know what you should buy. There otta be a law. Truth in advertising, proper labeling or something like that. I could not figure out before buying if this Potemkin is really the best restored etc. or not.

But I will say to help those who get as confused about versions as I do that this one was visually clear enough and the effects worked without distraction and the overall effect was still quite moving. The titles say music by Shastakovich. It is a bit choppy but I felt it added a lot to the power of the film. It is said that no sound track is authentic, because it was originally accompanied by piano. But in any event I liked this one a lot. I have seen and heard a lot more "scratchy" silent prints.

The film as a work of art? Of course it is great and can be still quite moving as has surely been said ad infinitum.

The print of the "rare documentary" bonus is a bit faded and antique, but the narrator can be heard clearly and it works for me. I learned a lot and am glad to have this artifact from the past.

So many Amazon reviewers get painfully persnickity about technical details or their asthetic judgments but don't even think to tell us which edition they are talking about!!! Please, folks if there are several editions make a small effort to tell us exactly which one you are writing about!!! Please notice that the Amazon computers don't always keep the reviews together with the exact edition you think you are referring to.

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