Tartan *****
IF YOU'VE just thought "who?", then this superb box set - comprising Strike, Battleship Potempkin and October - probably isn't for you.
For anyone interested in the history of cinema, though, or just wanting to watch damned good movies, then this is a must.
Yes, they're silent, black-and-white, and (particularly October) unashamedly propagandist. But in any History of Cinema class, this is Lesson One.
Potempkin, the best known, is the greatest classic of the silent age: superbly directed, moving, and much imitated. Strike is probably the better film, raising Communist propaganda to mythological levels. October, while okay, just makes up the numbers.
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