This week Alex and Jonathan head to Russia and look at three legendary and formative filmmakers with Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925), Lev Kuleshov's Po Zakonu (1926), and Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1975). We talk the various forms and uses of montage, the Kuleshov effect, and filmmaking outside the bounds of traditional film technique.

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6:40 - Battleship Potemkin

29:09 - Po Zakonu

44:58 - Stalker

1:08:24 - Overall

1:23:02 - Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions:

Oldboy (2003) - on Netflix

The Host (2006) - on Netflix

The Good the Bad the Weird (2014) - on Netflix

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