Derek Winnert

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) [Oktyabr] ***** (1927, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov) – Classic Movie Review 7475

Director Sergei M Eisenstein’s 1927 documentary-style Russian silent film classic October [Oktyabr] re-enacts the Ten Days that Shook the World (its alternative title) when the Bolsheviks stormed Russia’s Winter Palace in October 1917. Film students […]

Aug, 20 · in Reviews

Troll * (1986, Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, Sonny Bono, June Lockhart, Noah Hathaway) – Classic Movie Review 7474

Director John Carl Buechler’s 1986 horror film Troll is fondly remembered but it is unconvincing and ridiculous throughout. It is bad, but unfortunately it is not quite in the so-bad-it’s good category. It is just […]

Aug, 20 · in Reviews

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot [Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor] **** (1958, Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov) – Classic Movie Review 7473

In the sequel to Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1944), director Sergei M Eisenstein reconstructs the palace intrigues of the 1547-84 reign of Tsar Ivan IV (Nikolay Cherkasov), focusing on Ivan’s fight to consolidate the Russian Empire and his […]

Aug, 19

Ivan the Terrible, Part I [Ivan Groznyy] **** (1944, Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman) – Classic Movie Review 7472

The last work of Russia’s most acclaimed revolutionary director Sergei M Eisenstein was intended as a trilogy but only two parts were completed. Filming stopped after Part II was banned, but Part III’s concept is […]

Aug, 19

Strike [Stachka] **** (1925, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov) – Classic Movie Review 7471

After several years of working in experimental theatre, the great Russian director Sergei M Eisenstein made a dazzling cinema début with this forceful 1925 evocation of a strike by oppressed Russian factory workers in the pre-revolutionary […]

Aug, 19

Alexander Nevsky [Aleksandr Nevskiy] **** (1938, Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov) – Classic Movie Review 7470

The great Russian director Sergei M Eisenstein is on top, brilliant form in this remarkable 1938 Soviet historical epic (set in 1242) that climaxes in Prince Alexander Nevsky (Nikolay Cherkasov), the saint and soldier of […]

Aug, 19

A Message to Garcia *** (1936, Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Enrique Acosta, Alan Hale Sr, Herbert Mundin, Mona Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 7469

Director George Marshall’s 1936 A Message to Garcia tells an imaginary tale based on a real-life incident in which Lieutenant Andrew S Rowan (John Boles) takes US President William McKinley’s message of support to General Garcia […]

Aug, 19

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