THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF MR WEST IN THE LAND OF THE BOLSHEVIKS

Thu, May 19 at 8:00pm (Doors at 7:00pm)
Location: The Blue Room at Third Man Records, 623 7th Ave South
Tickets: $10 / $8 (Belcourt and Frist members and Vanderbilt students and faculty)
Presented by Third Man Records and the Belcourt Theatre. Part of "The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography and Film, presented by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
Dir. Lev Kuleshov, Russia, 1924, 94min, NR, 16mm, Silent with English subtitles
A hilarious tribute to American silent comedies, this Russian film was the first to specifically address American stereotypes of Soviet Russia as well as the first produced by director Kuleshov’s Experimental Cine-Laboratory school. This 16mm print, on loan from the film library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, offers a rare glimpse of slapstick humor used for propagandistic effect.