#Battleship (film)

[riqley]

Battleship Potemkin (1925) dir. Sergei Eisenstein

[sixpennydame]

Just thinking about postwar!Levi and him watching a film in a movie theater for the first time. It’s well after The Rumbling, and everyone was talking about the new “moving pictures” showing up in these newly built movie theatres. Levi had never been one to attend theatre productions or music concerts before, but he was curious to see what the fuss was all about, so he goes one night with Onyakopon and Yelena.

And what he sees is nothing short of spectacular to him.

People in fantastical costumes traveling beyond this world and meeting new creatures Levi had never thought of in his wildest dreams. After that first time, he started going every weekend with Onyakopon, eager to view new stories and places long gone, forgotten, or never created.

But one afternoon, he sits in the theater and watches as the screen fills with soldiers attacking innocent, unarmed people. A woman holds a child with tears in her eyes, but the soldiers march forward. There’s no sound, but Levi can hear every pop of the guns, every cry of the women and children. He stands up and leaves.

Onyakopon finds him sitting in the lobby, his head in his hands.

“You ok, Levi?” He asks.

Levi looks up, sweat on his brow. “Yeah…it was just a little too realistic.”

[ellevandersneed]

I think if I could look at a huge print of this on my wall whenever I am at my lowest, I would no longer be at my lowest

[daiconarchives]

DAICON IV cels

[jansen-dean]

Taken on the USS North Carolina Battleship in Wilmington, NC ⚓️

[noirsofia]

Battleship Potemkin (1926) / Top Gun (1986)

[sunlightfeeling]

T. / Theater Culture Magazine:

2010 Winter No. 12

Kimura Takuya + Space Battleship Yamato

[bluehairedspidey]

Battleship Potemkin (1925) // How I Met Grimace (1981)

[high-quality-tiktoks]

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[g4zdtechtv]

THE PILE PRESENTS: X-Play - Leap Year on the Citadel | 2/29/12

Thanks, Finland!

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[dustedmagazine]

Morricone Youth — Battleship Potemkin (Country Club)

Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin is a landmark in early cinema, a 1925 silent film of epic scale and ambition, which chronicles a late Tsarist-era mutiny aboard ship that strikes a chord and ignites a full-scale rebellion in the port city of Russia. It is well worth watching, if only for the stunning “Odessa steps” sequence, where the Tsar’s army ruthlessly guns down civilians in sympathy with the striking sailors. The images of a mother begging for her wounded child’s life or a baby in a carriage bumping headlong down the stairs are striking and memorable—and they have special resonance now, when Odessa is again under siege by a Russian army with few qualms about collateral damage.

The film has had a number of scores over the years, the original by Edmund Meisel, one from 1950 by Nikolai Kryukov , and a widely circulated 1975 50th anniversary edition incorporating symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich (that’s the version currently on the Criterion Channel). Eisenstein himself hoped that his movie would be rescored every 20 years, so that its sound would remain relevant to new audiences.

Enter, then, Morricone Youth, a New York City-based orchestra dedicated to live scoring classic films. The ensemble, a sort of bus man’s holiday for musicians in other bands, has performed music for films including David Lynch’s Eraserhead, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger and George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. The band, which is headed by Devon E. Levins, regularly performs its scores while the film is running in select theaters across the country. It is in the process of recording and releasing these scores. Battleship Potemkin is the latest.

On listening to this excellent soundtrack, with its languid, East European waltzes, its stirring snare-shot battle sequences, its antic re-enactments of rebellion and eventual triumph, you might regret not having the opportunity to hear this music in its rightful setting, a movie theatre. And yet, the music itself is evocative enough to hold your attention. “Vakulinchuk’s Dream” with its bell-like keyboard lines and its soaring trumpet is full of eerie yearning, exactly the sort of thing to embody a sailor’s longing for equality. The syncopated lurch of “Giliarovosky Is Watching,” with its sinuous, near-tango-ing tainted sensuality insinuates danger and trickery. “Cossacks Charge,” the music for that Odessa Steps imagery, snaps to attention on military drum rolls and advances relentlessly on piano motifs. And “Funeral” with its haunting, disembodied voices, is lovely and heartbreaking, exactly as it ought to be.

All of which is meant to say, yes, it’s probably better with the movie, but it’s pretty great with just your speakers and your imagination, too.

Jennifer Kelly

[nozkphotography]

Battleship Mikasa, Yokosuka city, Kanagawa pref.

May, 8th, 2022

[bettyspaghettylegs]

Camera : Olympus Infinity Jr AF (1987)

Film : Kodak Gold 200

Date : June 2024

Location : Battleship Cove - Fall River, MA

Alt text : The top of a tugboat with the ocean is in the middle with a portion of a battleship and bridge in the background. The sky is a mix of white, blue, purple, pink and orange with the colors reflecting off the water.

[cinemablogs]

Space Battleship Yamato

Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Japan, 2010 Starring: Takuya Kimura, Meisa Kuroki, & Toshirô Yanagiba

[jansen-dean]

Taken inside the Barber Shop on the USS North Carolina Battleship in Wilmington, NC

[makeitquietly]

For comparison, starting at 52:32: