Man With a Movie Camera

MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA Perhaps the least known great movie of all time is Dziga Vertov's THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA. Made in 1929, at the end of the silent era, it represents in a way the climax of a movement, a jewel from a time of great excitement about the possibilities of film - the bursting forth and flowering of Soviet cinema. Soon, the youthful hopes and enthusiasms of this movement would be …

…had been broken, for he made nothing of distinction then, until his death in 1954. Kino has recently released a series of Soviet silent films, including rare titles by Kuleshov and Pudovkin. Vertov's THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA is the biggest jewel in the bunch. Most modern films can't even hold a candle to it. See it if you want to glimpse a land of promise, abandoned for a time, still waiting for new explorers.