Ready for some good old-fashioned artistic propaganda, Soviet-style Russian filmmakers tried to make film grammar into an emotional-intellectual 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
Highland Film Group (Hfg) has come on to handle sales on animated family adventure Savva and biopic Lamotta: The Bronx Bull.
Maksim Fadeev’s animated family adventure Savva features Milla Jovovich and Whoopi Goldberg in the voice cast alongside Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci and Fedor Bondarchuk.
Gregory Poirier wrote the screenplay and Aleksandr Chistyakov produces the tale of a child who teams up with a scratch team of animals to protect a village from a pack of hyenas led by a three-headed monkey.
Martin Guigui’s Lamotta: The Bronx Bull recounts the life of legendary boxer Jake Lamotta and stars William Forsythe, Paul Sorvino, Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Cloris Leachman, Joe Mantegna and Natasha Henstridge.
Dahlia Waingort of Sunset Pictures and Scott Reed and Ron Singer of That’s Hollywood are producing. Jay and Arti Modi are executive producers.
Hfg’s Cannes sales slate includes Steven C Miller’s The Feud starring Kellan Lutz; The Trust starring...
Maksim Fadeev’s animated family adventure Savva features Milla Jovovich and Whoopi Goldberg in the voice cast alongside Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci and Fedor Bondarchuk.
Gregory Poirier wrote the screenplay and Aleksandr Chistyakov produces the tale of a child who teams up with a scratch team of animals to protect a village from a pack of hyenas led by a three-headed monkey.
Martin Guigui’s Lamotta: The Bronx Bull recounts the life of legendary boxer Jake Lamotta and stars William Forsythe, Paul Sorvino, Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Cloris Leachman, Joe Mantegna and Natasha Henstridge.
Dahlia Waingort of Sunset Pictures and Scott Reed and Ron Singer of That’s Hollywood are producing. Jay and Arti Modi are executive producers.
Hfg’s Cannes sales slate includes Steven C Miller’s The Feud starring Kellan Lutz; The Trust starring...
- 5/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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