Man With The Movie Camera

Year: 1929

Grade: B+

Country: USSR

Director: Vertov

Review

a superb experiment in film, a sort of ancestor of koyaanisqatsi (on dvd in september). it’s made even better by the dvd commentary. if you watch this film then do yourself the favor of listening to the commentary that comes with the dvd version. not a movie that’s going to entertain you all that much, isn’t going to make you laugh or cry, but it does have the ability to grab you and it’s so amazingly dense it’s unreal. as a film it’s an A, but overall it’s a .