SILENT RUSSIAN FILMS

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They’re simple.They’re silent.But listen closely,and you can hear stories floating in the air.Like whispers.....

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THEY’RE SLIM
THEY’RE SOFT
BUT SMELL CLOSELY
AND YOU CAN SENSE SOME BLOOD FLOATING IN THE AIR
LIKE ผ้าอนามัย WHISPER


ดีวีดีหนังเงียบรัสเซียใน amazon.com

หลายเรื่องในจำนวนนี้อาจจะหาซื้อได้ในกรุงเทพ (จตุจักรหรือสีลม)

1.STORM OVER ASIA (1928, VSEVOLOD PUDOVKIN, A+)

2.MOTHER (1926, VSEVOLOD PUDOVKIN, A)

3.THE CAMERAMAN’S REVENGE (1912, WLADYSLAW STAREWICZ)
หนังการ์ตูนความยาว 12 นาที
http://www.amazon.com/Cameramans-Revenge-Other-Fantastic-Tales/dp/B00004Y7HC/sr=1-2/qid=1170216236/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-3194000-6793752?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
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4.MAD LOVE – THREE FILMS BY EVGENII BAUER
ดีวีดีหนังเรื่องนี้ประกอบด้วยหนัง 3 เรื่อง ซึ่งได้แก่
4.1 TWILIGHT OF A WOMAN’S SOUL (1913, EVGENII BAUER)
4.2 AFTER DEATH (1915, EVGENII BAUER)
4.3 THE DYING SWAN (1916, EVGENII BAUER)
http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Love-Films-Evgeni-Bauer/dp/B0000E69HD
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5.STRIKE (1924, SERGEI EISENSTEIN)


6.BY THE LAW (1926, LEV KULESHOV)
อันนี้ออกเป็นวิดีโอที่เมืองนอก
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017271/
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1187489&style=movie&BAB=M

Lev Kuleshov, who is credited by Eisenstein and Pudovkin with having taught them the elements of montage, might have been influenced by the latter in his choice of this material, which was a grim Jack London short story ("The Unexpected"). Set in the Yukon in the late 19th century, the film focuses on a gold prospector suffering from cabin fever who has killed two of his partners over his cut of the haul. His remaining partner and the partner's wife tie up the wounded murderer, waiting until they can turn him in. Intended as a critique of capitalism, the film features extraordinary montage and lighting effects.

หนังสารคดีเรื่อง FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG พูดถึง LEV KULESHOV ด้วยเหมือนกัน
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000I21P/imdb-adbox/
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7.CHESS FEVER (1925, VSEVOLOD PUDOVKIN + NIKOLAI SHPIKOVSKY)

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.


8.THE GIRL WITH THE HAT BOX (1927, BORIS BARNET)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002A2W9U/imdb-button/
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Natasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irene. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this fiddle gives Madame's lazy husband a room for lounging. The local railroad clerk, Fogelev, loves Natasha but she takes a shine to Ilya, a clumsy student who sleeps in the train station. To help Ilya, Natasha marries him and takes him to Madame's to live in the room the house committee thinks is hers. Meanwhile, Madame's husband pays Natasha with a lottery ticket he thinks is a loser, and when it comes up big, just as Ilya and Natasha are falling in love, everything gets complicated


9.THE END OF ST. PETERSBURGH (1927, VSEVOLOD PUDOVKIN)

A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed peasant is also arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns ready for revolution.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008WJBZ/ref=pd_cp_d_title/102-3194000-6793752
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10.OCTOBER (1928, SERGEI EISENSTEIN + GRIGORI ALEKSANDROV)

In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year. Lenin returns in April. In July, counter-revolutionaries put down a spontaneous revolt, and Lenin's arrest is ordered. By late October, the Bolsheviks are ready to strike: ten days will shake the world. While the Mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace. Anatov-Oveyenko leads the attack and signs the proclamation dissolving the provisional government.

http://www.amazon.com/October-Days-That-Shook-World/dp/6305186774/sr=1-1/qid=1170216656/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3194000-6793752?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

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11.ARSENAL (1929, ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO)

The Great War (World War I) has brought devastation, heartache, and hardship to the Ukrainian people. Their soldiers, likewise, have faced horrors from the enemy and threats from their own officers. One recently demobilized Ukrainian solider, Timosh, returns home after surviving a train wreck, and arrives during a celebration of Ukrainian freedom. But Timosh begins to challenge the local authorities, and then, at the All-Ukrainian Congress, he calls for the soviet system to be adopted. In Kiev's Arsenal munitions plant, where Timosh has worked, feelings are running especially high.

http://www.amazon.com/Arsenal-Silent-B-W-Sub/dp/B00007L4MH/sr=1-3/qid=1170214718/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/102-3194000-6793752?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
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12.EARTH (1930, ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO)


13.HAPPINESS (1930, ALEXANDER MEDVEDKIN)

A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness.

http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B0007MYPPM/imdb-fr-20/
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CHRIS MARKER เคยกำกับหนังเรื่อง THE LAST BOLSHEVIK (1992, A++++++++++) เพื่ออุทิศให้ ALEXANDER MEDVEDKIN
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105618/


ตอนนี้ที่เทศกาลภาพยนตร์รอตเตอร์ดัมมีการฉายหนังเงียบของรัสเซียด้วย ซึ่งรวมถึงเรื่อง

1.ALCOHOLISM AND ITS ILL EFFECTS (1913, KHANZHONKOV STUDIOS)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/filmdb/380/b29ac18d-4432-4c5c-bd1d-1db766b25d89.jpg

Alcoholism and its Ill-Effects was considered to be one of the most popular science propaganda (or educational) films produced in Russia before the revolution of 1917. Alexander Khanzhonkov, the most prominent Russian film producer of that era, financed a special department dedicated to non-fictional cinema, despite the fact that such films were not commercially successful. Unfortunately, not a single copy of the film has survived to the present day. All that remains are 12 frames, which were used by Izvolov to create this reconstruction. He also used extracts from critical reviews, published at the time of the film’s release, to produce a soundtrack.

2. THE PROJECT OF ENGINEER PRITE (1918, LEV KULESHOV)

Short Russian feature from 1918 about the life and work of Engineer Prajt. Filled with scientific secrets and puzzles and always the target for various interpretations, commentaries and theories in Russia.

This is the debut film by Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970), who later became a classic Soviet film director and is particularly known for the invention of the famous editing method now known as the Kuleshov Effect. This film presented a host of scientific mysteries and puzzles which had to be solved during Izvolov’s reconstruction. The film has been the subject of numerous interpretations, commentaries and scientific theories. This is precisely why it was chosen as suitable material for demonstration of the new method of Digital Academic Film Commentary at work.