Ready for some good old-fashioned artistic propaganda, Soviet-style? Russian filmmakers tried to make emotional-intellectual film grammar into a science, and these pro-Revolution masterpieces by Vsevolod Pudovkin are terrific lessons in cinematic persuasion. The first two commemorate big moments in proletarian revolt. The third heads east to Soviet Mongolia for an even more powerful demonstration of Pure Kino-Power harnessed to political ends. With plenty of extras including informed, insightful (and needed) audio commentaries.
The Bolshevik Trilogy
Three Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin
Blu-ray
Flicker Alley
1926-1928 / B&w / 1:33 flat / 87, 73, 131 (291) min.
Street Date March 23, 2020
Available through Flicker Alley / 34.95
Mother
The End of St. Petersburg
Storm Over Asia
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
The more abstract Soviet agit-prop film classics were a tough row to hoe in film school. We’d study the writings of Sergei Eisenstein, etc., but the theories on paper didn’t always apply to the films we could see. In...
The Bolshevik Trilogy
Three Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin
Blu-ray
Flicker Alley
1926-1928 / B&w / 1:33 flat / 87, 73, 131 (291) min.
Street Date March 23, 2020
Available through Flicker Alley / 34.95
Mother
The End of St. Petersburg
Storm Over Asia
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
The more abstract Soviet agit-prop film classics were a tough row to hoe in film school. We’d study the writings of Sergei Eisenstein, etc., but the theories on paper didn’t always apply to the films we could see. In...
- 3/21/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Of the Big Three new wavers of German cinema—Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders-- who “came of age” as it were in the ‘70s, when I was in college and my own stake in the movies was budding into something more learned and substantial than what it was when I first discovered my love for them, Herzog has emerged as the director who most speaks to me now as an adult. I think that’s true at least in part because when his movies do speak to me it never feels like a one-sided conversation. I feel like I’m in there engaging in a push-pull with Herzog’s ability to seduce me (disarm me?) with his simplicity of approach, an ability which rarely seems satisfied to consider subjects from the less-perverse of two perspectives, and his tendency to rhapsodize and harangue and sidestep visual motifs...
- 12/19/2015
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Ever since I first wrote about the work of Sam Smith, back in 2009, I have been wanting to work with him in my capacity (in my other life) as the design director for Zeitgeist Films. In the two and a half years since then, Sam Smith has become one of the most sought-after designers on the independent film circuit with his refreshingly simple, witty and indelibly striking hand-drawn designs (it doesn’t hurt that he also has a great knowledge of both film history and the history of movie poster design). A few months ago I finally got the chance when we decided that we wanted something out of the ordinary to promote our new release of Andrey Zvyagintsev's Elena.
Zvyagintsev’s dark and beautiful film premiered at Cannes last year where it won the Special Jury Prize. For our release this May (it opens next week in the U.
Zvyagintsev’s dark and beautiful film premiered at Cannes last year where it won the Special Jury Prize. For our release this May (it opens next week in the U.
- 5/11/2012
- MUBI
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