May 25, 2008

5:45 pm

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Battleship Potemkin
May 25 at 5:45
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium
A 1905 sailors’ revolt leads to repression and triumph in one of the genuinely exciting legends of the silent cinema. For many years routinely selected by critics’ polls as the greatest film of all time, Battleship Potemkin was at first planned as a sweeping overview of the entire 1905 revolution on its twentieth anniversary but weather and time constraints forced concentration on this single episode, comprising only a half page of the original script. The devastating Odessa steps sequence—arguably the most anthologized sequence in film history — required three days to conceive and seven to shoot using only real sailors and denizens of Odessa. “Pure propaganda, as much as it is art.” (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, silent with intertitles,

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