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The Battleship Potemkin
Film Description Consistently voted one of the greatest films of all time and certainly one of the most exciting, this fictionalised account of the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution contains the celebrated sequence of the massacre on the Odessa steps. It's hard to imagine the impact of the cutting in this account of a sailors' mutiny. To the original audiences, it must have seemed like witnessing the birth pangs of cinema itself.
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I hope with this selection both to challenge the prevailing notion of silent cinema as hopelessly primitive, and to encourage pleasurable discovery. Spurred by pioneers like the aptly named Lumiere brothers and Georges Melies, (whose fantasies seem sprinkled with mag... View article in full
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Sight and Sound Critics Choice 2002 Including: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Andrei Rublev, Au Hasard Balthazar, Bicycle Thieves, Breathless (Godard, 1959), Charlie Chaplin - City Lights, Fanny and Alexander, Fellinis 8 1/2, Intolerance, Ivan The Terrible (Parts 1 & 2).
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