In the never-ending quest for cinematic gems hidden in the weekly TV listings, here's what I'll be watching (or at least recording) this week: What: "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925), Sergei Eisenstein ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Anyone vaguely familiar with film history knows that rapid-fire film editing is nothing new. It was used to great effect as far back as the Odessa Steps sequence in ...

When Sergei Eisenstein wrote and directed Battleship Potemkin in 1925, the Communist Party had consolidated its control over the Soviet Union. And if cinema was the most important of the arts, as ...

When Max Reinhardt, then the world’s most famous theater director, saw the German premiere of Sergei Eisenstein’s monumental 1925 film Battleship Potemkin, he supposedly cried, “I’ve just seen the end ...