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Pure Cinema
THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA is a film you're either going to love or hate, and it's unlikely you'll find a comfortable mid-ground. It's silent, Russian made, experimental.It opens with a manifesto rejecting inter-title cards, and an affinity to or reliance on theater and literature.It won't reject any of the tricks of cinema, though - including stop-action animation, slow motion, and at times dizzying, machine fire montages.It uses documentary footage to tell its story.
Choose your inspirations wisely
I admit I was a little disappointed with "Man with a camera",I had read where this guy pioneered all these modern techniques,I saw little of this.I was expecting something with earthshaking techniques as seen in "Girls Gone Wild XXXVIII",but there was hardly any skin at all (a couple of quick booby shots only - disappointing).All there was alot of busy cutting,fades, and film techniques.You'd think the guy just got his first NLE system or something. I'm still trying to figure out if he did it on an Avid or Final Cut. I dunno, I've done some stuff like parts of it with Vegas (you know the part where the screen goes black, yep, I've done that). I do want to know what compositing software he used. I was also kinda bummed on the sound track, I guess it was so bad that on this DVD they hired some musicians to write a new score, they did good work, though personally, I would have scored it with rapping Tuvan throat singers and those barking dogs doing Jingle Bells.There is definitely something to be said for picking music appropriate to the mood trying to be conveyed,I guess the original soundtrack missed the mark.I would also give him an 'F' on his use of color. He seemed obsessed with white, black, and grays.
These other guy's are only saying this is good to look cool & get chicks...
seriously, I can see how the camera work might of blown people away back when this was made (especially the scene in the factory where it keeps flicking like a strob to all the loud factory noise.) but today it just wont excite. Like the first light bulb ever...WHOA HOLY [...] THATS INCREDIBLE! But how often do you catch yourself saying that when you enter your bedroom everyday? Important film but very dated...only watch it to look cool & get chicks...trust me it'll work bruv! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Documentary    2. Foreign Film - Russian    3. Movie   

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• Original recording reissued
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Reviews (25)

Pure Cinema
THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA is a film you're either going to love or hate, and it's unlikely you'll find a comfortable mid-ground. It's silent, Russian made, experimental.It opens with a manifesto rejecting inter-title cards, and an affinity to or reliance on theater and literature.It won't reject any of the tricks of cinema, though - including stop-action animation, slow motion, and at times dizzying, machine fire montages.It uses documentary footage to tell its story.
Choose your inspirations wisely
I admit I was a little disappointed with "Man with a camera",I had read where this guy pioneered all these modern techniques,I saw little of this.I was expecting something with earthshaking techniques as seen in "Girls Gone Wild XXXVIII",but there was hardly any skin at all (a couple of quick booby shots only - disappointing).All there was alot of busy cutting,fades, and film techniques.You'd think the guy just got his first NLE system or something. I'm still trying to figure out if he did it on an Avid or Final Cut. I dunno, I've done some stuff like parts of it with Vegas (you know the part where the screen goes black, yep, I've done that). I do want to know what compositing software he used. I was also kinda bummed on the sound track, I guess it was so bad that on this DVD they hired some musicians to write a new score, they did good work, though personally, I would have scored it with rapping Tuvan throat singers and those barking dogs doing Jingle Bells.There is definitely something to be said for picking music appropriate to the mood trying to be conveyed,I guess the original soundtrack missed the mark.I would also give him an 'F' on his use of color. He seemed obsessed with white, black, and grays.
These other guy's are only saying this is good to look cool & get chicks...
seriously, I can see how the camera work might of blown people away back when this was made (especially the scene in the factory where it keeps flicking like a strob to all the loud factory noise.) but today it just wont excite. Like the first light bulb ever...WHOA HOLY [...] THATS INCREDIBLE! But how often do you catch yourself saying that when you enter your bedroom everyday? Important film but very dated...only watch it to look cool & get chicks...trust me it'll work bruv! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Documentary    2. Foreign    3. Foreign Film - Russian    4. Movie    5. Silent Films   

Editorial Review

Dziga Vertov, the Soviet Union's revolutionary documentarian and film theorist, put his years of experimentation in weekly newsreels to work in the 1924 feature film

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• Original recording reissued
• Original recording remastered
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Subjects:  1. Action / Adventure    2. Documentary    3. Movie   

Features

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Subjects:  1. Action / Adventure    2. Foreign    3. Foreign Film - Russian    4. International    5. Movie