Not to mention
Parodies/homages to the Odessa Steps scene in Sergei Eisenstein's
Battleship Potemkin:
Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971) Features a parody of the Odessa Steps
scene from S. Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin.
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)"[The] big Odessa moment comes near the
end, when Pryce and co-star Robert De Niro attempt to make their
getaway down a seemingly endless flight of stairs. On this occasion,
the imperilled pram is substituted for a futuristic vacuum cleaner
that slips its leash and barrels down behind them." [Brooks, Xan.
"Battleship Spotting." The Guardian, Friday 1 February 2008]
The Untouchables (Brian DePalma, 1987) "Easily the best known of the
Eisenstein rip-offs, The Untouchables' grand finale worked so well
that director Brian De Palma repeated the trick a few years later on
Carlito's Way. De Palma, in fact, might be the most referential major
director - Hitchcock recreations crop up all over his films, and Blow
Out is a homage to Blow Up." [Brooks, Xan. "Battleship Spotting." The
Guardian, Friday 1 February 2008]
The Naked Gun 33&1/3: The Final Insult (Peter Segal, 1994) "...throws
in machine-gunning nannies, the Pope, the president ... and not one,
not two, but four runaway prams. By the time the sequence wraps up,
it's raining babies all over the building and even Leslie Nielsen is
screaming." [Brooks, Xan. "Battleship Spotting." The Guardian, Friday
1 February 2008]
Joshua (George Ratliff, 2007) Monstrous little boy attempts to push
his little sister (in a pram) down museum steps
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) "While it surely
sailed clean over the heads of most of its audience, the scene in
which Clone troopers march on the Jedi temple is a straight lift from
the steps sequence, the lone difference being that the soldiers are
marching up the steps, not down." [Brooks, Xan. "Battleship Spotting."
The Guardian, Friday 1 February 2008]
Steps (Zbigniew Rybczynski, 1987) A group of Americans "invade" the
famous stair sequence of the Eisenstein film Battleship Potemkin. DVD
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> I never noticed some of the tracking shots in that Odessa Steps sequence
> -- the shot "from within" the crowd coming down the steps, for instance.
> It just jumped out at me today. The tracking of the pram is cut in so
> quickly it's almost imperceptible, esp. seeing with eyes that have been
> conditioned to see with today's assumptions.
>
> There are myriad homages, quotes and parodies that fifteen minutes on
> The Googles can bring up.
>
> Here is a mash-up done by the Pet Shop Boys from their Potemkin project.
> Apparently Eisenstein thought the score should be rewritten every 20
> years or so.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt16V3N-o18
>
> randal baier
>
>
> ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battleship_Potemkin
>>
>> gh
>>
>>
>>
>>> Speaking of the National Media Market. Have you looked at Gary¹s
>>> testimonial? The movie clip that is playing in the background looks
>>> familiar, but I can¹t place it.
>>> http://www.nmm.net/market_about_us.shtml
>>>
>>> Ursula Schwarz
>>>
>>> Save the Date!
>>> The 32nd National Media Market
>>> http://www.nmm.net/
>>> October 24 28, 2010 Kansas City, MO
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Christine Crowley <ccrowl...@alamo.edu>
>>> Reply-To: <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
>>> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:42:28 -0500
>>> To: <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [Videolib] [Videonews] automating new release selection?
>>>
>>> This is an excellent suggestion as I have become a big fan of this show
>>> and will attend if I have to pay for it myself. I've garnered info on
>>> many new vendors who have all kinds of plans. If you are just asking
>>> about recent popular films, the approval plans through B&T etc are
>>> probably the way to go. I have not the budget for that so we select
>>> everything regardless of where it comes from.
>>>
>>> Christine Crowley
>>> Dean of Learning Resources
>>> Northwest Vista College
>>> 3535 N. Ellison Dr.
>>> San Antonio, TX 78251
>>> 210.486.4572 voice
>>> 210.486.4504 fax
>>> NEW NAME AND email--ccrowl...@alamo.edu
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
>>> [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jaeschke,
>>> Myles
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:36 AM
>>> To: 'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu'
>>> Subject: Re: [Videolib] [Videonews] automating new release selection?
>>>
>>> Rudy,
>>> You should consider attending National Media Market in October.
>>> www.nmm.net There are many company's representing their
>>> independent/educational films. It's a great way to find many of these
>>> more "obscure" films in one place. Plus you can talk to your other
>>> colleagues in person about what they have seen that they like.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Myles Jaeschke
>>>
>>> Tulsa City-County Library
>>> Media Collections
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
>>> [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of
>>> ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:20 AM
>>> To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [Videolib] [Videonews] automating new release selection?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Videolib folks:
>>>> A query for the collective wisdom: how do you all stay on top of
>>>>
>>> current
>>>
>>>> releases? I would very much like to collect these as automatically as
>>>> possible, and free my time for hand-selecting the more obscure art,
>>>> independent, and educational films. I am sure I'm not the only one who
>>>>
>>> has
>>>
>>>> wished this :) What have you all come up with?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Rudy Leon
>>>> Learning Commons Librarian
>>>> Undergraduate Library
>>>> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
>>>> (217) 333-3503
>>>> http://www.deepening.wordpress.com
>>>> AIM: rudibrarian
>>>> VIDEONEWS is an electronic clearinghouse for information about new
>>>> services, products, resources, and programs of interest to video
>>>> librarians and archivists, educators, and others involved in the
>>>> selection, acquisition, programming, and preservation of video
>>>>
>>> materials
>>>
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>>>>
>>> and
>>>
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>>>>
>>> right
>>>
>>>> to revoke subscriptions to the list in cases where the intent of the
>>>>
>>> list
>>>
>>>> is routinely violated or where general listserv etiquette and protocol
>>>>
>>> are
>>>
>>>> infringed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Gary Handman
>>> Director
>>> Media Resources Center
>>> Moffitt Library
>>> UC Berkeley
>>>
>>> 510-643-8566
>>> ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
>>> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
>>>
>>> "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself."
>>> --Francois Truffaut
>>>
>>>
>>> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
>>> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic
>>> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in
>>> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will
>>> serve
>>> as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel
>>> of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video
>>> producers and distributors.
>>>
>>> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
>>> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic
>>> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in
>>> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will
>>> serve
>>> as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel
>>> of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video
>>> producers and distributors.
>>>
>>> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
>>> issues
>>> relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic
>>> control,
>>> preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in
>>> libraries
>>> and
>>> related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an
>>> effective
>>> working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of
>>> communication
>>> between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
>>> distributors.
>>>
>>> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
>>> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic
>>> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in
>>> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will
>>> serve
>>> as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel
>>> of
>>> communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video
>>> producers and distributors.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Gary Handman
>> Director
>> Media Resources Center
>> Moffitt Library
>> UC Berkeley
>>
>> 510-643-8566
>> ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
>> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
>>
>> "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself."
>> --Francois Truffaut
>>
>>
>> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
>> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic
>> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in
>> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve
>> as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel
>> of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video
>> producers and distributors.
>>
> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic
> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in
> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve
> as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of
> communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video
> producers and distributors.
>
Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley
510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
"I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself."
--Francois Truffaut
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective
working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
distributors.
