The name of this instance, lemmy.film reminds me of Lenfilm, the famous Soviet production company. Anyone want to share their favorite Soviet movies (not just from Lenfilm)?
The name of this instance, lemmy.film reminds me of Lenfilm, the famous Soviet production company. Anyone want to share their favorite Soviet movies (not just from Lenfilm)?
You mean like Tarkovsky? Pudovkin? The Master, Eisenstein? Why don’t you enlighten us, @OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org? I can’t do all the heavy lifting around here! 😄
Haha, fair.
I’m familiar with Tarkovsky, but not the others. Battleship Potemkin rings a bell. I watched zerograd the other day. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had more context into the everyday Soviet life that it was commentating on.
I’ve also heard about Man with a movie camera. Might check that out at some point.
I saw Man with a Movie Camera when TCM showed it a few months ago. Very interesting considering how he would lug a large wind-up camera around and film everything that he found interesting then use creative ways to edit it all together. To me, it didn’t look like a propaganda film at all, altho perhaps to those who lived in the USSR during that time may have seen more in it than modern Western people do today.