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davenjulieuk · #31 Post by **davenjulieuk** » Sun 30 Sep 2007, 7:54 pm

just found this... wonder if this is the "new" score...

Sussex composer premieres new score for cinema classic Battleship Potemkin

Still from cinema classic Battleship Potemkin
One of the most influential films in cinema history has been given a spectacular new musical treatment by a University of Sussex composer.

Dr Ed Hughes' live surround-sound score for Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece, Battleship Potemkin, will be premièred at the 2005 Brighton Festival on Saturday, May 14, at the British Engineerium in Hove.

Performed by The New Music Players, comprising of eight of the UK's finest chamber musicians, the new score marks the 100th anniversary of the events depicted in the film - the October Revolution of 1905. One of the scenes, the massacre by the military on the steps in Odessa, remains one of the most powerful images of political violence ever portrayed in a film.

In the past 80 years, Battleship Potemkin has had a number of musical scorings - from the original orchestral score by the German composer Edmund Meisel, through a collage of Shostakovich symphonies, to the more recent electro-pop treatment by the Pet Shop Boys.

Dr Hughes' aim was to explore how Eisenstein might have approached Battleship Potemkin had he had access to today's live audio-visual performance technology, and had been working outside oppressive censorship.

He says: "The film has a very bold storyline matched by a freshness of approach to filmmaking, which lends itself to music. Its sense of modernity and its originality invites the use of contemporary musical resources."

Dr Hughes is a prolific composer of orchestral, chamber and vocal music and has a particular interest in creating new scores for classic films. His previous projects include Joris Ivens Rain (1929), I Was Born, But... (1932) by the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu and Pacific 231 (Mitry, 1949).

Fugitive1979 · #32 Post by **Fugitive1979** » Mon 01 Oct 2007, 4:41 pm

Would still love to see this on DVD with the PSB score.

DJCulture · #33 Post by **DJCulture** » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 7:54 pm

If I remember rightly didn't Neil say at some point that they were in negotiations with the rights holders to release a DVD with their score?

volcanoday · #34 Post by **volcanoday** » Wed 31 Oct 2007, 10:03 pm

....which it's insanely obvious has fallen through

alig · #35 Post by **alig** » Thu 01 Nov 2007, 1:22 am

How come there's still a copyright on an 80-year old movie? Doesn't it expire after 75?

dgraysn · #36 Post by **dgraysn** » Thu 01 Nov 2007, 2:55 pm

just because it hasnt happened doesnt mean it will never happen

volcanoday · #37 Post by **volcanoday** » Fri 09 Nov 2007, 1:12 am

and Britney Spears hasn't made a heavy metal album either.

The moment of the PSB BP DVD has almost certainly passed...

EricMontreal22 · #38 Post by **EricMontreal22** » Fri 09 Nov 2007, 8:24 am

I always thought nearly every silent era filmw as still int he public domain especially (due to bad laws) foreign ones...

lucienchardon · #39 Post by **lucienchardon** » Fri 09 Nov 2007, 7:51 pm

EricMontreal22 wrote:I always thought nearly every silent era filmw as still int he public domain especially (due to bad laws) foreign ones...

Apparently some versions of the film are in the public domain. I guess if someone re-edits or works on restoring the film then they have the rights to that version. This article from the New York Times talks about a recently released DVD of Potemkin and the many versions of the film that have appeared over time:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/movie ... ref=slogin

volcanoday · #40 Post by **volcanoday** » Sat 17 Nov 2007, 9:23 pm

No doubt in his memoirs Neil will claim the breakdown in striking a deal is down to Russian homophobia.

One of the crowd · Mon 10 Dec 2007, 7:51 pm

Potemkin was on Sky yesterday in a version that lasted just 65 minutes.