Film Studies
Autumn 2011
Dayschool: Filming the Revolution – Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin
This day school examines Sergei Eisenstein’s classic Soviet propaganda film from 1925, setting the film in its historical context and discussing it both in terms of the revolutionary events of both 1905 and 1917. Using the recent restoration of the film that includes hitherto missing scenes and Edmund Meisel’s original orchestral score for the hugely successful 1926 Berlin screenings of the film, we will consider the history of the film itself. We will consider the reasons why the film was not seen in the director’s original version after the mid-1902s. Why, for instance, was the opening quote from Leon Trotsky replaced by one from Lenin? Why were German soldiers forbidden from seeing the film in 1926? How did the film become associated with Shostakovich’s music and why was the original score lost for over 50 years? Why was the film banned from theatrical screening in Britain until the 1950s? The day school will also make use of clips from other Soviet classics of the 1920s.
Date:Monday, 17th October 2011. Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm.
Venue:
Friends Meeting House
6 Mount Street,
Manchester
M2 5NS.
| Price | Concessions |
Minimum No. |
Maximum No. |
£32 |
n/a |
8 |
20 |
Send booking to:
Alan Sennett
Flat 5, 36 Oak Road, Withington, Manchester M20 3DA
email: a.sennett@open.ac.uk Tel: 0161 4380309
DAY-SCHOOL:
Brighton Rock (1947)
Creina Mansfield and Alan Sennett
We shall watch the film Brighton Rock (1947),based on the novel by Graham Greene and directed by John Boulting. We shall explore the making of the film and consider its effectiveness as an adaptation of the novel that has been called ‘darkest Greeneland.’ With an early performance by Richard Attenborough playing the teenage delinquent Pinkie, this is much more than a gangster movie. Quentin Falk called it,’ a truly intriguing, unfashionably raw, social drama-documentary.’
Date: Saturday, 29th October 2011. Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm.
Venue:
Friends Meeting House
6 Mount Street,
Manchester
M2 5NS.
| Price | Concessions |
Minimum No. | Maximum No. |
|---|---|---|---|
£35 |
n/a |
10 |
25 |
Send booking to:
Creina Mansfield
Beech Court, Beech Hall Drive, Macclesfield, SK10 2EF
email: creinam@tiscali.co.uk phone: 01625 - 511581
Alan Sennett
Flat 5, 36 Oak Road, Withington, Manchester M20 3DA
email: a.sennett@open.ac.uk phone: 0161 4380309
Dayschool: Fritz Lang's Metropolis
This day school looks at Fritz Lang’s 1927 Expressionist masterpiece. We will consider the film’s production history and locate it in its context of the high point of Weimar Germany, using the newly restored and reconstructed version with the recently discovered missing scenes and the original orchestral score by Gottfried Huppertz composed for the Berlin premiere. We will look at various interpretations of the film, as a piece of early science fiction cinema; as commentary upon Weimar Germany’s explosive labour relations; as anticipator of the rise of Nazism. Why did Lang come to dislike his own creation and Goebbels find so much to admire in it?
Date:Monday, 24th October 2011. Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm.
Venue:
Friends Meeting House
6 Mount Street,
Manchester
M2 5NS.
| Price | Concessions |
Minimum No. |
Maximum No. |
£32 |
n/a |
8 |
20 |
Send booking to:
Alan Sennett
Flat 5, 36 Oak Road, Withington, Manchester M20 3DA
email: a.sennett@open.ac.uk Tel: 0161 4380309