Battleship Potemkin - Eisenstein (1925)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgWoSHUn8c

When I was 17 years old, I sat in Facets Multimedia waiting for Seven Samurai to begin.

A very pretty girl walked in and sat down in the row in front of mine. She seemed to be with her mom and another girl.  She looked a bit like the actress Diane Baker.

I was younger, skinny as hell, damn good looking.  Like a young Sal Mineo.

We kept looking at each other.  We made eye contact, she smiled.  She and her friend then looked at a schedule for movies at another 'art film' theater and the girl who looked like Diane Baker said to her friend: "I've never seen the Battleship Potemkin. Let's go there this Wednesday night!" She then turned her head and looked at me.  We made eye contact again. It was a date.

So I thought.

Yes, dear internet voyeur, I went to that venue to see The Battleship Potemkin....but the girl who looked like Diane Baker did not show up.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!  I grieve to this day.

So I sat there and watched The Battleship Potemkin, which I had seen 16 times on WTTW Channel 11.

Was she evil or did fate intervene?  I will never know.