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Article: Battleship Potemkin.(Video recording review)
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- Cineaste
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- September 22, 2008
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Battleship Potemkin Directed by Sergei Eisenstein; screenplay by Nina F. Agadzhanova-Shutko; cinematography by Edouard Tisse; music by Edmund Meisel (adaptation and instrumentation by Helmut Imig). DVD, B&W and color, 69 mins., 1926. Distributed by Kino international, www.kino.com
I know, dear reader, what you are thinking: "The Battleship Potemkin ... again? Can't the Cineaste editors find something less passe to review?" But wait! Don't turn the page just yet, thinking that you need know nothing more about a film that critics' polls once regularly declared to be the best ever made. Sure, you are familiar with the film's backstory (the failed 1905 democratic ...