Eisenstein's most frequently shown and most perfectly shaped movie, a rallying commemoration of the 1905 uprising, the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin, and the massacre on the Odessa Steps. Since the audience's sympathies are ushered immediately into place with no qualifications (the ship's doctor, squinting at an infested side of beef, announces to the nauseous crew, "These are not maggots"; a martyred sailor is laid out with a placard on his chest, "For a plate of soup"), the involving tension of the movie derives from the director's strict regimentation of shots -- some 1300 of them overall -- into precise rhythms, swells, bursts. (1925) — Duncan Shepherd
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