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Man With A Movie Camera
An extraordinary piece of film, making a montage of life in Moscow showing the people of the city at work and at play and the machines that kept the city going. Vertov's first silent full-length film.
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£16.99
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Bfi Video Publishing Michael Nyman's Man With A Movie Camera [1929]
As you might guess from the rather impertinent possessive in the title, <I>Michael Nyman's Man with a Movie Camera</I> is a re-release of Dziga Vertov's 1929 experimentalist classic provided with a score by Michael Nyman. Those who know and love Nyman's music--and come to that, those who know and dislike it--will know pretty well what to expect: fluent orchestral minimalism turned out by the yard. The mood and the tempo scarcely vary, no matter what Vertov's showing us or how fast or slow the rhythm of his cutting. The effect is to tone down the excitement and audacity of Vertov's ideas and render them safe and even a touch bland. <p> If you're a Nyman fan, this is definitely for you. Otherwise, the earlier BFI release of the same film has not one but two alternative scores: a pounding, heroic, forward-with-the-Soviets affair from the Alloy Orchestra, closely based on Vertov's own notes of the kind of orchestral accompaniment he wanted for his film; and a second from the progressive group In the Nursery, gentler and more expressionist, drawing on state-of-the-art music technology. (As a third option, the BFI release includes a well-informed voice-over commentary from film historian Yuri Tsivian.) <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Michael Nyman's Man with a Movie Camera</I> comes to DVD packed in a hinged square metal tin reminiscent of the ones that hold small Dutch cigars. There are printed biogs of Vertov and Nyman, the latter rather cloyingly fulsome (a man of impeccable musical credentials). The transfer is excellent and pretty well complete; a few minor blemishes where the original nitrate stock had deteriorated scarcely detract. --<I>Philip Kemp</I>
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£15.99
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MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA 2LP
author: ; publisher: GOLDS
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£12.51
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MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA
author: ; publisher: NINJ
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£10.99
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Bfi Video Publishing Man With A Movie Camera [1929]
An experiment in the creative communication of visible events without the aid of inter-titles, a scenario or theatre aiming at creating a truly international absolute language of cinema, is how the inter-titles describe what is about to be seen. Bold claims indeed, but in its awesome sophistication <I>The Man with a Movie Camera</I> does live up to them, making it one of the most contemporary of silent movies. The subject, the life of a city from dawn to dusk, was not original even for 1928, but its treatment was--the cameraman as voyeur, social commentator and prankster, exploiting every trick permissible with the technology of the day (slow motion, dissolves, split screens, freeze frames, stop motion animation, etc). A young woman stirs in her bed, apparently fighting a nightmare in which a cameraman is about to be crushed by an oncoming train. She wakes up, and the sequence is revealed to be a simple trick shot. As she blinks her weary eyes, the shutters of her window mimic her viewpoint, and the iris of the camera spins open. Self-reflexive wit like this abounds here--there's even a delicious counterpoint made between the splicing of film and the painting of a woman's nails.<p>The film was the brainchild of the Moscow-based film-maker Dziga Vertov (real name Denis Arkadyevich Kaufman), a furiously inventive poet of the cinema who made innumerable shorts about daily life (such as the much-quoted Kino-Pravda), and played at candid camerawork and <I>cinema vérité</I> long before they became the clichés of the television age. The editing has a fantastic abandon that makes most pop videos look sluggish. --<I>David Thompson</I>
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£19.99
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I B Tauris & Co Ltd The Man with the Movie Camera (KINOfiles Film Companion S.)
Pages: 96, Paperback, I B Tauris & Co Ltd
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£8.57
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