(aka "Old and New" or "Staroye i novoye" or "Generalnaya liniya" or "La ligné générale" )
directed
by Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Aleksandrov
Soviet Union 1929
This is the most neglected of Sergei Eisenstein's features,
his last completed silent picture (1929), also known as The Old and the New.
It's a bucolic epic about the Soviet struggle to collectivize agricultural
production, and it's far from his least interesting or exciting film, though
some critics have made it sound that way by noting that the most famous
sequence involves a cream separator. For the record, it is a thrilling
sequence--part of Kenneth Anger's Eaux d'artifice is modeled directly after
it--but it's far from the only thing this rich, poetic, and sometimes quite
funny film has to offer. Recommended.
Jonathan Rosenbaum in Chicago Reader
Theatrical Release: 7 October 1929 (Soviet Union)
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DVD Review: Films sans frontieres (Part of the Eisenstein l'intégrale Box) - Region 2 - PAL
Big thanks to Mikkel Svendstrup of DVDsnak for the Review!
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Films sans frontieres Region 2 - PAL |
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Runtime | 2h00m48 | |
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Audio | DD Mono | |
Subtitles | French, English (removable) | |
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Release Information: Studio: Films sans frontieres Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 8 |
Comments | This disc
is available either alone or as a part of the French Eisenstein 4-disc
l’integrale box released by Films sans Frontieres. The box consists of 8
films; each DVD-9 disc contains two films. Disc 1: Battleship Potemkin + The General Line. Disc 2: October + Strike. Disc 3: Alexander Nevsky + Que Viva Mexico! Disc 4: Ivan the Terrible part I + part II. The quality is great. Off course there is some damage, but I’ve never seen these films looking as good as this. And all the films have nice white removable English subtitles. |
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