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Man with a Movie Camera is now regarded by many as one of the greatest films ever made, ranking 9th in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the world's best films. In 2009, Roger Ebert wrote: "It made explicit and poetic the astonishing gift the cinema made possible, of arranging what we see, ordering it, imposing a rhythm and language on it, and ...
Mikhail Kaufman played the title role, carrying a lightweight camera up the highest rooftops and smokestacks as well as deep into factories and mines to capture extraordinary images. According to scholar Yuri Tsivian, Kaufman thought of himself as “the Buster Keaton of documentary filmmaking.”.
99+ Photos. Documentary. A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. Director. Dziga Vertov. Writer. Dziga Vertov. Stars. Mikhail Kaufman.
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- Documentary
- Dziga Vertov
- 1929-05-12
The man peering at top left over the heads of his intermediary colleagues and just coming into view, smiling—as well he might—is Vassiliev who, together with his brother, has produced the film whose easy narrative flow and psychological inflection of a revolutionary hagiography has taken that year’s honors and the most general official assent.
Dec 14, 2017 · Crafted from his earlier newsreels and images freshly shot in the Ukraine, Man with a Movie Camera has been classified as a documentary and a symphony film, but Vertov had a more specific idea of it. To him, it was targeted propaganda, designed to educate, impel, and occasionally scold the Soviet population to pull together and do the hard work ...
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Jul 1, 2009 · The only continuing figure — not a “character” — is the Man With the Movie Camera. He uses an early hand-cracked model, smaller than the one Buster Keaton uses in “The Cameraman” (1928), although even that one is light enough to be balanced on the shoulder with its tripod.
Aug 12, 2019 · Yale professor John MacKay explores the legacy of the avant-garde Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov and his 1929 masterpiece, “Man with a Movie Camera.”
