News from Ideological Antiquity
Directed by Alexander Kluge, Germany, 2010, (84 mins)
Alexander Kluge’s film is a discursive essay about and around Eisenstein’s notes on a film of Marx’s Capital—written shortly after the release of October in 1927 and connected to his ideas for conceiving a film of Joyce’s Ulysses. According to Helmet Merker writing on the 570 minute version, “Eighty years on, Alexander Kluge joins the party and takes up where Eisenstein failed, because neither Hollywood’s capitalists nor Moscow’s Communists were prepared to send the necessary funds his way… Scholarly stuff, wide and deep in scope, yet bold and playful. But ...