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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry. Stachka (Strike) I think I may have seen enough old Russian films now to realize I'm just not going to get a lot of enjoyment or interest out of them. I've been watching them because of their reverence in the world of cinema history. Many Russian filmmakers of the 20s were considered to be pioneers of editing theory. If you want a lot of wild montage and cuts you can see it with these guys. Many people have criticized what's called MTV style of editing to contributing to recent society’s attention deficit disorders, but if you look back to these films it's not much different. Now some of these films of course had different goals. I think you could call a lot of this stuff by Eisenstein propaganda. "
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"Strike is the kind of movie that confounds star ratings. On one hand, I feel I should give it four stars because it is a film of ceaseless ambition and great visual poetry. On the other, it is dense, confusing and esoteric, without any compelling human characters to care about. I am giving it three because no serious cineastes should avoid a film this impressive, I am unsure as to how many will actually "like" it. I have said that the movie is confusing, but it doesn't appear to be. Let me explain. On one level, the movie is simple- Russian workers plan to strike after one of them is falsely accused of a crime and commits suicide, and the upper classes try to stop them. But to keep track of the dozens of characters, the exact sequence of events and the various visual and historical metaphors that Eisenstien uses. I turned on the DVD commentary track by a Russian film historian to see if it might help me and instead realized how little of the film I was getting. I might be able to b ... "
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"Here’s the dilemma. I have a list of well over three thousand movies I want to see saved on IMDB. I have a subscription to Netflix and recently every time I return a DVD it has been an extremely arduous task to make the decision as to which movie I should see next. In an effort to narrow down my choices and make the process of choosing slightly less overwhelming I have devised a system, almost a bit of a game for me. Here’s how it goes.For my first film selection, I have narrowed the options down to only films that were released in the year 2006. Then after I have watched that movie, my next selection would have to be a film released in 2005. Then I would see a film from 2004, then 2003, etc. The process of deciding is still laborious, but actually quite a bit more exciting. (I'm going by IMDB as my source for release years)I have already been making a list and have also already begun watching the films. I decided this might be a good time to start fooling ... "
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