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- 1929
- Not Rated
- Amkino Corporation
- 1 h 8 m
- 1929
- Not Rated
- Amkino Corporation
- 1 h 8 m
Summary A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Directed By: Dziga Vertov
Written By: Dziga Vertov
- 1929
- Not Rated
- Amkino Corporation
- 1 h 8 m
- 1929
- Not Rated
- Amkino Corporation
- 1 h 8 m
Man with a Movie Camera
6.8
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Summary A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Directed By: Dziga Vertov
Written By: Dziga Vertov
Where to Watch
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
15 Reviews
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6% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
96
94% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A marvel of energy, wit, and visual imagination, The Man With a Movie Camera remains one of the most exhilarating movies ever made. [06 Feb 2015, p.G5]
It's a startlingly avant-garde cross-examination of modern life, as well as a lesson in the power of filmmaking and an autopsy of its methods.
Vertov’s experimental essay proclaims its ‘complete separation from the language of theatre and literature’ in the opening titles. What follows is cinema in its purest form: movement, sensation, action and visual trickery.
No other film – not even by Georges Méliès at his most fantastic – trumpets early cinema's status as a magical science and scientific magic, quite so loudly or melodically.
The film would be exciting to watch even completely silent, both because it’s a valuable record of Soviet city life at the end of the 1920s, and because it explodes with visual ideas.
It is a disjointed array of scenes in which the producer, Dziga Vertoff, does not take into consideration the fact that the human eye fixes for a certain space of time that which holds the attention.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.8
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.8
75% Positive
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Production Company
Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)
Release Date May 12, 1929
Duration 1 h 8 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The Greatest Documentary Ever Made.
Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Village Voice Film Poll
• 1 Nomination
