All America-Soviet Heroine
di Dave Kehr The New York Times
AMONG the choices facing a filmgoer in the Soviet Union of 1926 were three films that have since become textbook classics: Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin,” V. I. Pudovkin’s “Mother” and Dziga Vertov’s “One Sixth of the World.”
But much of the citizenry preferred “Miss Mend,” a wild pastiche of American adventure serials directed by Fedor Ozep and Boris Barnet. Filled with car chases and kidnappings, fist fights and physical comedy, “Miss Mend” was released in three feature-length episodes and set a box office record (1. [...]
di Dave Kehr, articolo completo (6487 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 13 dicembre 2009
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