Man With a Movie Camera

AMG Review : Soviet director Dziga Vertov's experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor, Elizaveta Svilova (who was also his wife), and his cinematographer, Mikhail Kaufman (also his brother), that the true goal of cinema should be to present life as it is lived. To that end, the filmmakers offer a day-in-the-life portrait of a city from dawn until dusk, though they actually shot their footage in several cities, including Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa. After an opening statement, there are no words in the film (neither voice-over nor titles), but the dazzling imagery, kinetically edited, is eloquent enough. This is a celebration of the modern city that concentrates on its buildings and machinery more than its citizens, and it's possible to read its upbeat tone as a vindication of Soviet state progress, though much of the film's ultimate impact is universal. The Image Entertainment DVD edition of the film offers a musical score composed from notes left by the director, which adds greatly to the impact of the film. As a document of "pure" cinema that favors the visual over the aural, The Man With a Movie Camera is a tremendously exciting work that soars over its limitations as a product of the Soviet state system. Director Dziga Vertov's claim that narrative cinema was inadequate to present real life is certainly arguable. But the assertion that this film is an unmediated presentation of daily life is undercut by the film's optical tricks and, more importantly, by its stinting of any portrayal of poverty, crime, and other social ills ? not surprising given the heavy hand of the party censors. Nevertheless, The Man With a Movie Camera is so energetically conceived and executed, with dozens of memorable images flying by almost more quickly than you can absorb them, that it's easy to cast aside the political limitations imposed on the project and enjoy it as one of the great film odes to 20th century urban life. The Image Entertainment DVD edition of the film is highly recommended; it contains a musical score that seems to anticipate Philip Glass, as well as astute commentary by scholar Yuri Tsivian on an alternate audio track. - Tom Wiener *********************************************************************************** www.freakyflicks.tk SEED AS LEAST AS MUCH AS YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED...PLEASE! 'If we all seed just 1:1, give at least what we take, this torrent will NEVER DIE' ... simply search for 'freakyflicks' *************************************** ************** FREAKYFLICKS ************* ***************************************

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Cinquetto (2006-03-16)

Thanks for this! I recommend to all viewers - you should listen to the new soundtrack by the Cinematic Orchestra while watching this!

billykid55 (2006-04-12)

This is one of the best films ever!
Demonstrates what film couldve become instead of what it is...

lorenzo_K (2006-07-10)

1st of all - thanks for postin this! : )
2ndly, which musical score is it? ...seems to me like there are (atleast) 3 different ones. one by michael nyman, one by the cinematic orchestra, and one by the alloy orchestra(?).
anyway, great post! lookin forward to watchin it! : )

lorenzo_K (2006-07-15)

yeas! : D - once again: THANK YOU! still havent watched it, but surely lookin forward to it!
and to the rest of you who (also) didnt get which musical score it is (and has yet to d/l it) - the cinematic orchestra, which is nuff said. in other words, the music is absolutely fabulous!

envelope (2007-01-14)

I'm surprised none of you mention the exemplary soundtrack composed by musique concrete legend Pierre Henry available as titled: "L'Homme a la Camera". The manner in which the two are synchronized is but a guess although the first time I tried it went *very* well. Movie on player with music on winamp. Listen in open space (no headphones, real speakers) if possible.

envelope (2007-01-20)

I recently took the time to figure out the Henry soundtrack synchronization point. Hit play at about 02:07 when the projection camera comes on screen. The soundtrack is 1:12:52 long; the film has about 4-5 seconds of non-original film content (production release company) at the end which shifts the soundtrack initiation point from 02:12 to the mentioned 02:07. To micro-manage the synchronization you can take note of one further point: less than 20 seconds after 02:07 there is a busy surge in the music which should correspond to the waiting crowd being let into the theatre (appropriately urges the phrase "let the bees in!"). Enjoy!

digitaldevil (2008-01-10)

Thankyou for this torrent, I need to see this film for a class and this saved me a LOT of serious bother. THANKS!!!!

raheesen (2008-07-27)

good quality...great movie(documentary)...thanks...

Waldoh (2009-03-13)

I don't know why nothing mentions this, but this Torrent has the Cinematic Orchestras soundtrack already synced with the movie! Great Music to go with some Urban footage of 1929 Russia, as far as people saying the special effects are amazeing, well they might have been the first to do it but the idea is simple and compared to todays effects its nothing. Just nice to watch with it was like back then and listen to some good music. PS: works well with psycadelics. I fell into this whole Universal Organic way of thinking from the movie was was realy moved by the beauty that is life

Torgaloukos (2009-09-21)

Thanks!
I'll seed till ratio 2.000 and higher...

britt0 (2009-11-19)

Thank you SO much for this!
We just watched most of this in my English class I LOVE it!
:D

FRivera (2010-09-18)

no, this torrent doesnt have shit synced with the movie. the movie is silent and 1:10 and there's two 5 minute mp3 files with it. W T F

FRivera (2010-09-18)

nevermind, only the first 3 minutes are silent:D10x 4 the UL!!

sardone (2011-01-09)

Pleeease seed! This movie is necessary to my life...

sardone (2011-01-10)

Okay, my clients telling me that i have an "unregistered torrent pass" on my hands... Help?

BiffyBiro (2011-03-12)

Thanks for seeding this. (: I need it for my university film course and I (through lack of sleep the night before...) feel asleep on the person next to me during the original screening of it.. idiot, I know. Would anyone be able to tell me howww close this soundtrack is to the original?

iSeshan (2011-06-05)

Is this in HD?

 lord_terabyte (2012-03-29)

Unfortunately the ripper did not know how to convert the improper 29.97 frame rate back to PAL 25 or film 24, thus a great many frames will look like shit. Discerning downloaders will want to snatch a better copy. I'm going with a .99GB copy with 3 scores even though I only need one...I don't tolerate poor quality encoding.

baybeh (2012-05-05)

does it have the commentary that the uploader's description mentions?

vickypep (2012-06-06)

eyxaristw poly!!!

baybeh (2012-08-05)

no commentary. and the score is by cinematic orchestra. what about the original?

a.kassa (2013-06-09)

tnx

ASDLR (2013-08-20)

Merci merci ! Does anyone have the french subtitles ?