Product Details

• Directors: Dziga Vertov
• Writers: Dziga Vertov
• Producers: Dziga Vertov
• Format: Full Screen, NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Triad Productions LLC
• DVD Release Date: July 14, 2008
• Run Time: 68 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001CMTCKE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,675 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't be fooled, May 23, 2009

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notdarkyet14 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Man With The Movie Camera (Enhanced) (1929) (DVD)

*NOTE: This review is for the 2008 "(Enhanced)" version of the film, produced and distributed exclusively by amazon.com

I think amazon hunted for the WORST print of this movie in existance to distribute! The picture goes in and out of focus as the dark levels jump all over the place. The speed of the projection even shifts all around. Also there is no score to accompany the picture so it is truly and literally a silent movie. Do yourself a favor and purchase the Kino version of a few years ago. I have and it is wonderful. This is now one of my favorite movies but it never would have been so if I had tried to deal with the presentation on this item. I will be very suspicious of any movie posted with an enhanced tag as amazon appears to be trying to make a quick buck and doesn't really care what they are passing off to movie lovers.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Since Russia is so close to Alaska, I have Foreign Affairs experience!!!, November 20, 2008

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Eddie "Classics Old & New" (CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Man With The Movie Camera (Enhanced) (1929) (DVD)

Sorry about the weird title for the review. I couldn't come up with anything else at the moment.

On to `Man With a Movie Camera' which is certainly among the top silent films of all time. Not so much for its content, as its use of such a wide range of cinematic techniques. Dziga Vertov invents, deploys or develops techniques such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, animations and a self-reflexive style.

His message was simple and concise. The camera could go anywhere and do anything. It's almost as if Vertov could see the future. At the time, camera's where big and loud and could not be hidden but Vertov could see that it for what it was.

5.0 out of 5 stars "Living Russia," or "The Man with a Camera", November 3, 2009

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bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Man With The Movie Camera (Enhanced) (1929) (DVD)

A well designed film by Dziga Vertov's that looks like a documentary than show the man and the city. We are constantly looking at fictional city where it is compared to the man with a camera. This film shot in black and white in 1929 is often compared to "Berlin: symphony of a great city" however this film is much more.

The real interest in the movie is how it is cut, and the choices of what to film. Every time you turn around you will see something not of other documentaries. What is real and what is film reality?

The voice over is just as good if not better than the original film as it describes how the film was made.

An added plus is just looking at the ancient technology. And then again how they are ahead of us in electric transportation.