From Russia With Love
ON LOCATION: ST. PETERSBURG (May 2011)
Three in One: Sergei Eisenstein's Greatest Hits
My good friend Fred, a Stanford grad who worked many years for Brown University in the Library, has now lived in St. Petersburg, Russia for nearly 12 years, thanks to a wonderful marriage to a lovely Russian native (also a librarian). When I was with Fred this past month, sitting in the beautiful 5-Star Grand Hotel Europe, he showed me his most recent film purchase! With apologies for the poor picture quality, you can see it’s a kick-ass combo of Alexander Nevsky and The Battleship Potemkin plus one other Eisenstein masterpiece which I confess I don’t recognize. All in Russian, naturally!! Does Fred speak Russian now? No, but he bought the films anyway. He tells me he can buy 20 DVDs for 60 Euros. Not bad. He also said that Black Swan was available in Russia long before the official DVD was released—the only problem: it was dubbed 
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