The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925): Soviet Union

Reviewed by Byron Potau.  Viewed on DVD. Sergei Eisenstein’s career is one of the cinema’s greatest what ifs.  Incredibly talented, he was, however, stifled by the politics of his country.  Who knows what could have happened if he had been a nurtured artist rather than an oppressed one?  What we do know is that he … Continue reading The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925): Soviet Union