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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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