Sergei Eisenstein • USSR • 1925
Odessa, 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions onboard, the crew of Potemkin considers the unthinkable: mutiny. Seizing control of the ship and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors' revolt reaches further, rallying a disenchanted Russian populace. When a ruthless White Russian cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion, one of the most famous film sequences in cinema history ensues.
For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin has remained the most influential silent film of all time, despite its continued subjection to censorship and recutting. Restored by Deutsche Kinematek in association with Russia's Goskinofilm, the British Film Institute, Bundesfilm Archive Berlin, and the Munich Film Museum, this version includes dozens of missing shots and all 146 title cards in line with Eisenstein's specifications. Edmund Meisel's definitive original score, magnificently rendered by the 55-piece Deutches Filmorchestra in 5.1 Stereo Surround, returns the masterwork to a form as close to its creator's bold vision as has been seen since its 1925 Moscow premiere.
Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman • USA • 1926
Rejected by the Confederate army and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee, young Johnny Gray is given a chance to redeem himself when Yankee spies steal his cherished locomotive. Johnny wages a one-man war against hijackers, an errant cannon...
Fritz Lang • Germany • 1927
Incorporating more than 25 minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of Metropolis is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz’s 1927 score, the film’s dazzling visual design a...
One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera is a work of amazing modernity and power. This dawn-to-dusk view of urban Soviet life shows people at work, at play, and at the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive.
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