The Battleship Potemkin at 100: why Sergei Eisenstein’s powerful silent film remains unforgettable

The exceptional historical film has had such a profound impact on western visual culture that many may not realise how deeply its language is rooted in mainstream cinema.

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Battleship "Potemkin" | DRAMA | FULL MOVIE | by Sergei Eisenstein

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Herinner me nog dat ik het vak montagetechnieken had op de hogeschool en we de opdracht kregen om een film mee brengen, om daar dan de montage van te bespreken.

Mijn leraar: ‘nu breng je wel de moeilijkste film mee om op dat vlak te analyseren… ‘ 😇😇

Waarna hij de hele film doorspoelde, op zoek naar die ene montagefout die er volgens hem inzat.

Het fascineerde me zo dat ik nu elke montagefout zie, soms tot m’n frustratie tijdens het kijken.

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Stick Figure Theatre / Sergei Eisenstein's (The Battleship Potamkin)

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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...
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It is Mexico that, in the same element of Sunday celebration, mixes the blood of Christ in the morning mass in the cathedral with the streams of bull's blood in the afternoon bullfight in the city arena.

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We, working in the USSR, are well aware that with our technical capabilities it will not be possible to begin practical implementation anytime soon.

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Instead of accompaniment, Kabuki sparkles with the exposure of the switching technique. Switching the main influencing intention from one material to another, from one category of "irritants" to another.

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One person, intelligent and cinematically knowledgeable, after watching parts of Eisenstein's films said to me: "This is very good. I like it very much, but what will the masses say? What will those for whom we work say?

#ViktorShklovsky

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The sphere of the new cinematography, as it turns out, is not the sphere of showing a phenomenon, or even social interpretation, but the possibility of an abstract social assessment... This will be the art of direct cinematic transmission of a slogan. Transmission as uncluttered and direct as the transmission of a thought by qualified words.

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