The Battleship That Stormed Into Silent Cinemaâs Tranquil Waters
Made 95 years ago, Sergei Eisensteinâs masterpiece hasnât lost any of its power.
Posters for Battleship Potemkin .
At the Brussels Worldâs Fair of 1958, a poll of film critics rated
Battleship Potemkin and
The Gold Rush as the two greatest films in history â in that order. It is remarkable that, a full 30 years after âtalkiesâ had become the norm, the two classics of the silent era still held sway over the minds and hearts of film aficionados. But there were other striking similarities between
Potemkin and
Gold Rush. Both the movies were shot in 1925 and released within six months of one another. Each was the work of a young director: Charlie Chaplin was 36 when he created