The exceptional historical film has had such a profound impact on western visual culture that many may not realise how deeply ...

A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy that reminds us why cinema matters.

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 ...

The film was at the centre of a controversy at the recently concluded IFFK, when the Central government objected to its ...

The Soviet government ordered the film, produced by Mosfilm, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1905 Potemkin uprising, ...

In this report from the 30th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), India Today's Shibi Mol details the state government's decision to defy the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). The ...

On Wednesday, 26 November at 8.30pm, the Malta International Organ Festival leaves the church loft and steps into the cinema pit as Eden Cinemas hosts a rare event: the screening of Sergei ...

PG-13, for some language. 129 minutes. Lesley Manville is first-rate as a lonely woman imposing herself on her friends. But, despite its easygoing realism, Mike Leigh's latest is a bit of a snore.

Silent films have been restored with great effort in recent years. For example, the Murnau Foundation released an elaborately reconstructed version of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," in which damage to ...

Famed director Michael Mann has recently joined fellow director Martin Scorsese and a host of other cinephiles to post his list of favorite films on Letterboxd, the "social network for film lovers." ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) People crowd together in the sun. All smiles and waves. Joyous. Pandemonium erupts. Panic hits like a shockwave as those assembled swivel and bolt, spilling down a seemingly ...