Monday 13 August 2012

Eisenstein and Odessa


Power Descending

IF the Odessa Steps Massacre in The Battleship Potemkin (1925) is one of the most oft-cited, recreated and pastiched scenes in cinema, then the peerless inspiration it has provided stems as much from its raw, devastating content as from the brute timelessness of what it depicts - the struggle of people and power.