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Man With a Movie Camera

Man With a Movie Camera

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Key Information
Directors: Dziga Vertov Group
Genre: Foreign Films
Subgenre: Russian
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Available Formats: DVD: Remastered by the BFI; New Score by Michael Nyman
UPC: 5021392544243
Release Date: 1929
Running Time: 1hr 15min
Languages
Release Language: English ((unspecified))
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD
Release Date: January 26, 2010
UPC: 5021392544243
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS
Credits
Screenwriter: Dziga Vertov Group
Professional Reviews
: (01/11/2002, p.25, Entertainment Weekly Staff): "...Dziga Vertov's film-school staple is the benchmark for many of the movie thrills we take for granted..."
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Details: Not merely a cinematic portrait of a day in the life of a city, cinema pioneer Dziga Vertov's MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA is an experimental manifesto of vision. Controversial when it was created in 1929, the film still pulses with the unruly energy and innovation of Vertov's genius. Subverting and criticizing the conventions of capitalist fiction filmmaking that he so despised, Vertov and his revolutionary Kino-Eye crew (including his wife as editor and his brother as cameraman--both of whom appear in the film) created a plethora of filmic devices in order to comment on vision, life, Marxism, and modernity. Differing film speeds, superimposition, evocative and manipulative editing, and rhythmic graphic composition all blend seamlessly in a magic show of life above and below the city. Shooting shops, traffic, children, coal miners, workers, human bodies, and nature, Vertov creates visual rhymes and graphic portraits of the structure of life and the explosion of perception. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA took part ...
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