THINKING WIDER: A Word With Actor And Producer Nick Baillie https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/nick-baillie-interview-the-wide-west/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Interviews #alexandernevsky #joecornet

I can't be the first person to notice that the priest of the Teutonic Knights in Alexander Nevsky bears a remarkable resemblance to Palpatine.
Nor that the celebratory musicians (who also played during the battle) are reminiscent of the band in the Mos Eisley cantina...
#GeorgeLucas #SergeiEisenstein #StarWars #AlexanderNevsky

Listening to Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky soundtrack to the film. (Turin Temirkanov with what used to be known as the Leningrad Philharmonic). I’d recorded #BillionDollarBrain with Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley (Sr) from #TCM and noticed how the Texas invaders were drowned in the ice. Echo of the Teutonic army in #AlexanderNevsky #Prokofiev #SergeiEisenstein #KenRussell #classicfilms #TCMParty on delay.

The Tyee: We Might Think We Know Russia. Why We’re Wrong https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/09/26/We-Think-We-Know-Russia/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #UnionofSovietSocialistRepublics #CatherinetheGreat #post-SovietRussia #StoryofRussiabook #MikhailGorbachev #NikitaKhrushchev #AlexanderNevsky #ByzantineEmpire #CzarNicholasII #Russianhistory #PetertheGreat #VladimirPutin #OrlandoFiges #GoldenHorde #JosefStalin #KyivanRus