We come to the conclusion of James Clavell’s epic Japanese tale this week (it was definitely quicker to get through the miniseries than the novel – course I was fourteen at the time) as I delve into the fourth disc of the DVD set which has the fifth and final episode. Adapted by Eric Bercovici,…
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October – Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) – Sergei M. Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov
DK Book’s The Movie Book allows me to dig a little further into the works of Sergei M. Eisenstein after my viewing of Battleship Potemkin, by offering up October in his Key Movies category. Shot in a documentary style, the film explores the events that led up to the Bolshevik revolution in October of 1917….
The Mind Reels 