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Battleship Potemkin
Tue, Jan 4 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Film Editors Branch.
A masterpiece of silent cinema, Sergei Eisenstein’s epic rendering of an uprising on a naval ship in Imperial Russia is a tour de force of film editing and features one of cinema’s most iconic and oft-referenced sequences: the kinetic clash between soldiers and peasants on the Odessa Steps. A leading figure in the Soviet Union’s montage movement and an influential film theorist, Eisenstein embraced the revolutionary power of cinema: for him, shots were meant to clash to create a maximal impact on the audience. Battleship Potemkin ’s intricate, non-linear editing impacts film editing to this day.
DIRECTOR: Sergei Eisenstein.
CAST: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov. 1925. 74 min. Soviet Union. B&W. Silent. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Tue, Jan 11 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch.
Considered the oldest surviving animated feature, The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a stunning saga that combines meticulous hand-crafted animation with an epic tale. Adapting One Thousand and One Nights , the film tells of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into a fateful journey. Filmmaker Lotte Reiniger devised a ground- breaking silhouette technique for the film and the resulting work remains a high-water mark of animation, referenced in films such as Fantasia (1940) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).
DIRECTOR: Lotte Reiniger.
1926. 67 min. Germany. B&W and Color. DCP.
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