Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin tops the list once more
Published 15 April, 2009, 15:27
Sergei Eisenstein’s drama ‘The Battleship Potemkin’ has once again been named one of the most influential films of all time.
US cable television channel Turner Classic Movies has released a list of 15 films which made an impact worldwide and shaped the future of cinema.
Film critics and experts took part in the film selection, as well as TCM's veteran host Robert Osborne, who was quoted as saying "there were some great debates over which movies to include. It's tough to agree on only 15 titles.”
The Battleship Potemkin is a silent film made in 1925. It features an uprising that took place in 1905, when sailors onboard Potemkin rebelled against Tsarist regime officers and refused to eat their soup with rotten meat. One of the most famous scenes in the legendary Soviet drama features the ‘Odessa Steps’ sequence.
Among other films on TCM’s list are: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’; George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’; ‘Breathless’ by Jean-Luc Godard; Akira Kurosawa's ‘Rashomon’; ‘Bicycle Thieves’ by Vittorio De Sica; Orson Welles’ ‘Citizen Kane’; John Ford's ‘Stagecoach’; Victor Fleming’s ‘Gone with the Wind’; ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ by David Hand; Frank Capra’s ‘It Happened One Night’; ‘42nd Street’ by Lloyd Bacon; ‘Metropolis’ by Fritz Lang, and D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’.
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