Una noche en BLUZZ BAR

Boom Boom Kid acústico

con proyección de la película

King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, 1933)

viernes 9 de octubre de 2009

Bluzz Bar Montevideo

¿Por qué será que a veces se nos da por recordar el pasado?

Why sometimes we like to remember the past?

Children of the Damned

Oktyabr

October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir) is a Soviet silent film made in 1927 by Sergei Eisenstein. It is a dramatization praising the 1917 October Revolution.
October was one of two films commissioned by the Soviet government to honour the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. Eisenstein was chosen to head the project due to the international success he had achieved with The Battleship Potemkin in 1925.
The filming of the assault on the Winter Palace required 11,000 extras, and the lighting needs left the rest of the city blacked out.

October was not as successful or influential as Potemkin. Eisenstein's montage experiments met with official disapproval.

The authorities complained that October was unintelligible to the masses, and Eisenstein was attacked for excessive "formalism". He was also required to re-edit the work.

Stalin himself also closely kept an eye on the production of this movie and actually ordered to remove most of the sequences featuring old comrade but later turned enemy Leon Trotsky. It's funny how only the sequences that make Trotsky look bad and weak were kept into the movie.

Illustration Friday: Clique

Happy birthday to me is a classic horror film from 1981, directed by J. Lee Thompson. In this movie, Virginia (Melissa Sue Anderson) is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on...