As Dostoyevsky once wrote: “All true Russians are philosophers.”
This week Alex and Jonathan head to Russia and look at three legendary and formative filmmakers with Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925), Lev Kuleshov’s Po Zakonu (1926), and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1975). We talk the various forms and uses of montage, the Kuleshov effect, and filmmaking outside the bounds of traditional film technique.
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Skip to: Battleship Potemkin (6:40), Po Zakonu (29:09), Stalker (44:58) Overall (1:08:24), Coming Attractions (1:23:02)
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Battleship Potemkin on Archive.org
- Po Zakonu on YouTube: Version 1 || Version 2 (Jonathan’s subtitles)
- Stalker on YouTube
- Crash Course on Soviet Montage
- Breakdown of Montage Types
- Roger Ebert Review of Battleship Potemkin
- Tarkovsky: A Poet in Cinema
- Andrei Tarkovsky – Poetic Harmony Video Essay
- Matthew McConaughey Reacts to Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Further Watching
- Mosfilm on YouTube
- Alexander Nevsky – Sergei Eisenstein
- Solaris Part 1 and Part 2 – Andrei Tarkovsky
- Man With a Movie Camera – Dziga Vertov
- Alex on Twitter: @AlexGeringer
- Jonathan on Twitter: @JSSatchell
Next stop, Korea!
We come back to the modern age next week and talk about three South Korean films:
- Oldboy (2003) – on Netflix
- The Host (2006) – on Netflix
- The Good the Bad the Weird (2014) – on Netflix
Intro/Outro Music:
Ash by Mike Braudrick
The Filmlings 