This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the editing of the film is documented. We often see the cameraman who is purportedly making the film, but we rarely, if ever, see any of the footage he seems to be in the act of shooting!... (Full plot summary below)
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This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the editing of the film is documented. We often see the cameraman who is purportedly making the film, but we rarely, if ever, see any of the footage he seems to be in the act of shooting!
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| Observer (UK)Jonathan RomneyThis is an exuberant manifesto that celebrates the infinite possibilities of what cinema can be. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawThe combustion engine gave humanity the new experience of speed; now the movie camera gave us a dizzying new speed of perception and creation. |
| Time OutTom HuddlestonVertov’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. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrThe film remains a fascinating souvenir, though its flourishes are now fairly familiar. |
| The Arts DeskGraham FullerA masterpiece of avant-garde experimentalism and, fleetingly, an unexpected critique of the continuing class struggle. |
| The Tyee (British Columbia)Dorothy Woodend[Director] Dziga Vertov's documentary Man with a Movie Camera is more than 80 years old, yet it positively thrums with the onward rushing energy of a freight train, a type of futurist dynamism as surprising as a slap in the face. |
| The SkinnyLewis PorteousLittle can be added to the praise heaped upon Man with a Movie Camera over the years, other than to emphasise quite how entertaining it is. |
| The DissolveNoel MurrayIt's a valuable record of Soviet city life at the end of the 1920s, and it explodes with visual ideas. |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestMan with a Movie Camera is like a wordless anthem for all cinephiles, directly targeting that je ne sais quoi that makes cinema so powerful. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyNo 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. |
