This is a little blog intended to show up as an RSS feed in my main blog, Me Fail? I Fly!. I make a note here when I start reading a book, and mostly write something there when I finish. Click on an image for a link. Blogger lets you choose from a number of views. For example, try mosaic view.
24 April 2012
DVD: Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein 1925)
I've seen this once before, 40 years ago. It's like mediaeval artists painting St Sebastian as a way to paint a nude: here we've got a revolutionary uprising as a pretext for fabulous crowd scenes, stylish silhouettes, spectacular montage etc.
I've seen this once before, 40 years ago. It's like mediaeval artists painting St Sebastian as a way to paint a nude: here we've got a revolutionary uprising as a pretext for fabulous crowd scenes, stylish silhouettes, spectacular montage etc.
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