Friday, August 3, 2012

Man with Movie Camera

Russian writer and director Dziga Vertov delivered his masterpiece with this ground breaking documentary. A portrait of a city and its people during a day is captured by a cameraman. Dazzling cinematography, editing and score makes this classic one of the greatest films of all time featuring groundbreaking effects ahead of its times, full of inventiveness that still holds up 80 years later. The film is also a perfect time capsule of the era depicted full of detail. 1001 Films' coverage of films on DVD.

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