SummaryA 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
Man with a Movie Camera
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
96
User score
Generally Favorable
7.0
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
94% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
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100
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]
100
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.
User score
Generally Favorable
76% Positive
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
4% Mixed
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20% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Jan 7, 2025
9
Wow this was really something. I watched iton youtube, so maybe i found a different version. I found the music quite jarring in a few spots. Not bad per say but it kindof distracted me. I understand they made a soundtrack for it back in 2000s? Would have been nice to hear music that people then would have listened to in their everyday lives perhaps? But totally worth a watch for anyone that enjoys history or film making.
100
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.
100
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.
100
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.
80
It’s a beautiful piece of celluloid that is worthy of its army of plaudits.
50
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.
Nov 20, 2024
7
Cuando una película es creativa y original y no sigue convencionalismos, por un lado te alegras de que se intente arriesgar, y creo que siempre es algo digno de aplaudir, pero por otro lado tengo miedo de que en ese intento de encontrar lo “único”, se pierda el rumbo y se realice una obra horrible, pero en este caso no es así, es buena película, aunque para mí es más como un documental, que no por eso deje de ser bueno ni mucho menos, pero digo documental porque muestra una Rusia real, una Rusia que está viva, con su belleza y con sus facetas menos estéticas, y es interesante como aunque no había un guion preexistente, logra que exista en la historia un hilo conductor, lo suficientemente bueno para que no te aburras, a pesar de que no existe un diálogo o algo así, son las mismas imágenes las que cuentan la historia, me gustó realmente.
Production Company:
- Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)
Release Date:May 12, 1929
Duration:1 h 8 m
Tagline:The Greatest Documentary Ever Made.
Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Village Voice Film Poll
• 1 Nomination
