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Man With a Movie Camera
Film Description One of the most extraordinary films in the history of cinema and as important and watchable now as when it was made. Filmed in Odessa and other cities in the late 1920s, it's an exhilarating and often hilarious montage showing people at work and play and the machines that keep the cities moving. Vertov uses a dazzling array of cinematic techniques - dissolves, double exposure, fast and slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, tracking shots, backwards footage - to create a witty, politicised commentary on his times and ambitions.
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DVD Extras 3 soundtrack options: A score which adheres closely to Vertov's notes; a newer, high tech score from The Nursery and an expert commentary by Yuri Tsivian.
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Review by anonymous on An exhilarating montage of various facets of Moscow life, including the moment of birth itself, propelled way beyond its documentary base with a relentlessly inquisitive joy in the film-making process; a kaleidoscopic assortment of available devices- freeze-frames, dissolves, split-screen, superimposition, fast, slow and reverse motion..- that feels liberating, splendid.
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Article - "Film Preservation: The Nitrate Era "
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