A cameraman travels the city with his movie camera, documenting the frenetic machinery of urban life.
DVD Release Date: May 13, 2003
Stats: 475 reviews
Dziga Vertov invented cinema with this one film. He knew the potential way before anyone else, even Eisenstein was a couple of years behind. The pair of them defined cinema and to be honest, few film since have matched Man with a Movie Camera as far as originality, importance and...( read more)
An encyclopedia of cinematic techniques, many of which are hugely influential (jump cuts, double exposure, stop motion animation, slow motion, etc). It cheerfully documents every nook and cranny of a bustling city plus even the film, filmmakers, and audience. Contains possibly ...( read more)
a remarkable experimental film. a documentary style day in the life of average citizens of the soviet union, intercut with scenes of the filmmaking process. edited with energy and wit and alot of interesting visual effects. no script, no sets, no actors; just everyday drama an...( read more)
This is the most unexpectedly intensely satifying movie I've ever seen. It's virtually plotless and without dialogue, but somehow really involving. I found myself inexplicably tense, thrilled, joyous, and transfixed. My favorite sequence is the teens jumping over that horizont...( read more)
Really amazing film. It seemed really ahead of its time, especially musically. I feel like this movie proves my theory of needing to know how to take good pictures in order to make a good movie. This was basically one of the first experimental, independent, documentaries that ...( read more)
the director loved machinery?looms, trolley cars, speeding automobiles. He also loved cinematic tricks?freeze frames, superimpositions, speeded-up action and slo-mo. Technically it is a documentary, but really it is a poetic tribute to modernism's hopeful beginnings
As you can tell by the title, this is a film about a woman with a tape recorder. It thankfully avoids bourgeois things like plot and characters. But try to see it for free, because if you pay to see it you're supporting the evil capitalist system.
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