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'Battleship Potemkin' To Be Relaunched at Berlinale
The Berlin Film Festival plans to screen a digitally restored version of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 classic The Battleship Potemkin, including scenes ordered removed from the original theatrical version by the Soviet government following the premiere, the festival said in a statement on Wednesday. Calling it a "reconstruction" of the original, the festival said that it will include an opening quotation by Stalin rival Leon Trotsky that was cut from the film before it was released in what the festival called "one of the most spectacular cases of censorship in the 1920s." (Trotsky was expelled from the Politburo within months following the release of the film.) On Feb. 12 and 13, the silent movie will be accompanied live by the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg playing a revised version of the original score by Edmund Meisel.

Jeff wrote:Might this be what delayed the Eisenstein silents box?

'Battleship Potemkin' To Be Relaunched at Berlinale
The Berlin Film Festival plans to screen a digitally restored version of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 classic The Battleship Potemkin, including scenes ordered removed from the original theatrical version by the Soviet government following the premiere, the festival said in a statement on Wednesday. ......l.

Interesting read. Hmmm, still would like to see a Criterion release of Persona. The box doesn't seem to be all that.

mteller wrote:The MGM box is superb. I mean, it doesn't have a spine number or anything, but if you like Bergman it's a no-brainer.

mymangodfrey wrote:since you rarely see anything from warner, mgm (at least not anymore), columbia and paramount, you can guess that future releases will either be foreign, from universal, or maybe fox, or some other small distibutor.

I can't guess accurately on what's to come, but something tells me there's gonna be more bertolucci, like the conformist and last tango in paris, and hopefully even the last emperor. everyone keeps saying hoop dreams, and I don't know why.

here's some I wish they would get the rights to and publish: breathless, la dolce vita and the swindle (just to get the almost complete fellini collection), hard boiled and the killer (they need to get the rights again), double indemnity, bottle rocket, and some more short film compilations and such. [/u]

Lemdog wrote:I would like to randomly speculate that Matt or Martha will have a nervous breakdown by July.

pzman84 wrote:Is it possible Criterion could release a SE of "The Third Man" with the TCM documentary "Shadowing the Third Man?" I thought it was great and it would be a great addition to the masterpiece that is the "The Third Man." However, I am realistic and since Warners doesn't licence out to third parties, I doubt TCM does either. However, Warners and Criterion could make a deal, where Criterion gets the documentary and Warners gets the commentaries from "King Kong" and "The Magnificent Ambersons " from the old Criterion laserdiscs. But since this is unlikely to happen (and "The Third Man" is a great DVD already), it will probably only remain a dream.

ctyankee7 wrote:

Morbii wrote:Since we were talking about the 300th spine in another thread, I personally hope it goes to another Dassin or a Clouzot

With the Beastie Boys on #100 and Honeymoon Killers on #200 it would appear that Criterion cares little for the significance so ... why should we?

criterionsnob wrote:Last I heard, the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation planned to start raising money for a restoration of Berlin Alexanderplatz. Considering the length of the film, it'll take a considerable amount of time and money.

We can only hope that Criterion will be the ones to release it on DVD. I'm sure it must be one of their most requested titles. They have worked with the Fassbinder Foundation in the past, so hopefully that's a good sign.