{"id":25704,"date":"2012-05-04T11:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=25704"},"modified":"2021-06-17T19:55:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T02:55:04","slug":"drifters-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=25704","title":{"rendered":"Drifters (1929)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The herring fishing has changed. It was once an idyll of brown sails and village harbours &#8212; its story now is an epic of steam and steel.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Poster.png 188w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Poster-89x128.png 89w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nHerring fishermen in a North Sea coastal village head out to sea and bring their haul back to land for selling.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Documentary<\/li>\n<li>Fishermen<\/li>\n<li>Silent Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Grierson&#8217;s <em>Drifters<\/em> is the type of movie that requires a bit of contextualization in order to appreciate its historical relevance (and hence its inclusion in Peary&#8217;s <em>GFTFF<\/em>). Taken at face value, it&#8217;s simply a reasonably engaging b&#038;w silent documentary about the lives of herring fishermen in England, one which amply demonstrates that fishing is HARD, highly collaborative work &#8212; but it won&#8217;t strike one as particularly revelatory from a cinematic standpoint. However, knowing that Grierson would go on to spearhead the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Documentary_Film_Movement\">British Documentary Film Movement<\/a> &#8212; which was established to &#8220;educate citizens in an understanding of democratic society&#8221; &#8212; one gains a better appreciation of what, specifically, he was aiming for with <em>Drifters<\/em> (which remains the only feature film he actually directed himself). It&#8217;s interesting to note that he was apparently heavily influenced by Eisenstein&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=24569\"><em>Battleship Potemkin<\/em> (1925)<\/a>; ffs will surely notice parallels in style. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A powerfully shot and edited early documentary<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Still.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Still.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Still-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Still-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Still2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Still2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Still2.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Still2-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drifters-Still2-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s certainly worth a look for its historical importance. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0019838\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The herring fishing has changed. It was once an idyll of brown sails and village harbours &#8212; its story now is an epic of steam and steel.&#8221; Synopsis: Herring fishermen in a North Sea coastal village head out to sea and bring their haul back to land for selling. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Documentary Fishermen Silent Films Review: John Grierson&#8217;s Drifters is the type of movie that requires a bit of contextualization in order to appreciate its historical relevance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=25704\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25704"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73066,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25704\/revisions\/73066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}