Anyone see Battleship Potemkin? 1925. Now that is a trip. Netflix has it.
Potemkin is one of those movies that was influential and left a lasting stamp on every film that came after—but the film itself is rather dull, IMO. I believe Kubrick also felt that Eisenstein lacked substance, so I’m not alone.
Hmmm...might as well put in a plug for Aleksandr Nevsky.
I've enjoyed that incredibly strong and sometimes creepy orchestral suite that Prokofiev fashioned out of his film score, that I owe it to myself to hunt down the movie.
(The orchestral suite is available on CD in a Reiner/Chicago performance.)
“Anyone see Battleship Potemkin? 1925. Now that is a trip. Netflix has it.”
Yes, I saw it on PBS, I think, in the 80’s. There was a scene with maggots in the food . . .
Other favorites: Frankenstein 1932
The Great Train Robbery 1908?
Birth of a Nation 1925?
Shirley Temple and Mr. Bojangles 1934?
Shirley Temple Heidi (1937?)
many many more . . .