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This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the editin...( read more 
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MCT:August 19, 2008
Impressive cinematography and editing for such an early film. Looked like it was way ahead of its time. Along with the pensive Cinematic Orchestra score it was enjoyable to watch, offering both musings on Soviet life and the art of the documentary.
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MCT:July 16, 2008
Fantastic, interesting to see the affects of visual imagery by itself without major characters, plot, or music (assuming you see the original silent version). Some of the affects were great.
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MCT:June 15, 2008a 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 and a brave man with a movie camera
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MCT:June 1, 2008Man I was amazed when I first saw this movie. A majority of film techniques can be attributed to this gem. I love the idea of multiple soundtracks that have been added to this previously silent film because the sounds give the filming a different look each time.
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MCT:May 26, 2008In my opinion, this film is merely a time capsule for average life at the time it was filmed. I don't see any inherent genius or anything. In fact, I believe that a documentary about the film with actual clips would be much more intriguing.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
A good early Russian documentary on life in Russia just as things were changing for them. Highly reccomended.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
In Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera, we see a great feat of cinematic experimentation pulled off with style and imagination at a critical point in the history of Russia and Cinema. I don't want to give a mundane lesson on Russian film history; I don't know much about it, and as my understanding expands, my appreciation for Vertov's film doesn't so much expand but come more into focus. On a completely funademental level, seperate from all knowledge of it's historical context, I enjoyed it. It's a toss up of the narrative and a refusal to accept the conventional documentary style. It's a moving news article, a warping painting. Vertov cuts, splices, and chops his way through a day in the life of a city in Russia, and we travel through a multitude of scenes, some seeming to be simply observed while others are clearly set up. We see busy city streets and individuals getting up and getting dressed. Complex workings of factories and people recreating, playing sports. Vertov superimposes himself into the film, reminding the audience that he is capturing the world, and in his art, he will go anywhere he needs to as he becomes unusually small and large, travelling around. He communicates his job as a filmmaker to be one of necessity through his own inclusion with the factory workers, store owners, and business men we see in the film. Vertov has created a movie that accomplishes a surreal level astounding for a documentary, and Man With The Movie Camera is an unbelievably interesting pursuit of a unique style.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
Para os fãs dos videoclipes, o Homem com a câmera é uma boa pedida. Ele pode ser considerado o pai destes vídeos alucinantes que vemos todos os dias na MTV.
É um documentário de 1929, que mostra um dia típico da cidade de Moscou. Pela data do filme não é preciso dizer que ele é mudo, mas há uma versão que re-constrói, com base nas anotações do compositor, a trilha sonora que dava o rítmico estonteante quando a obra era exibida nos grandes cinemas com o acompanhamento de uma orquestra.
O diretor soviético Dizga Vertov foi conhecido pela sua proposta de mostrar a realidade nos seus filmes. Era contra o cinema de ficção e escreveu um manifesto chamado Revolução dos Knocks (kino=cinema + oco=olho). Essa sua proposta pode ser, claramente, vista em seu longa-metragem.
Para os fãs de metalinguagem, o Homem com a câmera, desde o título, traz essa abordagem. Ao longo da película se vê, várias vezes, o câmera com seu equipamento. Ele deixa explicitado que há uma câmera ali e que tudo aqui não passa de um filme.
Por fim, o genial Dziga Vertov se denominava como Autor-Supervisor de Experimento, e não como Diretor. Só mesmo assistindo o filme desse soviético, para entender essa mente revolucionária do cinema que foi Vertov. -
MCT:May 21, 2008
Fucking brilliant -- not just in its historical context; it's timeless! Eisenstein was never this advanced. Great filmmaking on a deep cinematic level. The music on this version was constructed from Vertov's notes, and I think it would exceed his dreams.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the editing of the film is documented. We often see the cameraman who is purportedly making the film, but we rarely, if ever, see any of the footage he seems to be in the act of shooting!
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MCT:May 21, 2008
This movie shows what the seventh art should be about. Why has it been deformed by plots and stories, borrowing from literature? Not that I'm against it, but this movie shows it's never been necessary, when you have the talent to do something truly unique as this film is.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
Wonderful experimental film about a day in the life of Russia. Daring, witty, and one of the best films ever made.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
Long time ago, after the Potemkin.. weeks later i watched this movie in class. This is the real classic too.. you can learn many thing from this movie.. as much as you learn from Potemkin. THe real newly camera angles at the time. Being the camera classical textbook for all generation.. if you really interestin' in film making or film history. This is the must see for any reason!!
I still can remember what Vertov did with trains in the city, with mirror, with a room, with the creative time transition and ETC. This is real masterpiece in world cinema** -
MCT:May 21, 2008Don't come the 'it's a classic, you can't not like it' bollocks with me. I fell asleep watching this - IN CLASS. I'm sorry, but it's godawful and the experiment the director set out to conduct didn't work with me.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
Possibly my favorite movie of all time. It's a silent film from 1929, but there was a new soundtrack added a few years ago. I should really have this on DVD.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
If you can find the version with the Cinematic Orchestra music score I can't recommend this film highly enough
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MCT:May 21, 2008
An exploration of the documentary genre, one of the most interesting films, portraits the common lives of Russian residents; with powerful, creative and original style of film-making.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
this is an experimental documentary of cinematographic techniques:
i think it is very modern in the mix of music and images.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
A little of this movie goes a long way, but it's still a fascinating piece of history from the "realism vs. formalism" debate that gripped Russian cinema at the time. In his film, Vertov includes the camera as one of the technologies whose underlying principles we should question; we're constantly aware of its presence, and the sequence involving a woman splicing pieces of celluloid together emphasizes this distancing effect.
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MCT:May 21, 2008Wow. This was one bizarre movie. I know I couldn't actually recommend it to anyone, but it was strangely compelling. Truly an experimental film, without plots, actors, or dialogue. Just a long series of quick shots of various people... for an hour. Some of the shots seemed to tell a story, others only giving us a snippet of these people's lives. Although I couldn't say I enjoyed it in any real sense of the word, I found it a fascinating watch. One of the most unique movies I've seen thus far in my film class.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
Initially just a tad boring, it later morphed into an interesting and frenzied film. The use of all the funky editing effects really made it come to life.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
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 the most impressive editing job I've seen.
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MCT:May 21, 2008It's a seventy minute montage of sometimes related, sometimes unrelated things with no dialogue. It was essentially an experiment in camera use, so there's very little actual entertainment here. A part of cinematic history, but not one really worth sitting through.
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MCT:May 21, 2008
Old time film with soundtrack added later. A guy just experiments with elements of film theory and spends the day shooting in the city and in a concert hall. Nice look at the late 20s.
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