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Lorna Singh
17May13
An amazing,important work of art. Shows the power of film to educate re history and,most of all,to celebrate life.
Sudipto Basu
7Apr13
A comedy that anticipates everything from Playtime to F for Fake and conceptual music videos.
Charles Ziegler-Hartmann
5Apr13
A early testament to the power and potential of the film camera and its operator's ability in capturing life and refitting it to establish its own frame of mind and, better still, its own essence of being.
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João Pedro Tomás
23Mar13
The editing and camerawork blows my mind away. From stop motion to timelapse photography, from the fast and rhythmic montage to filmed sequences with complex production logistics. The train scene is unforgettable and the shrimp one is very intriguing. What really makes me think is the editing per se and the notion of truth ("pravda") with constant editing - that is, of course, the difficulty of defining documentary.
Aguaespejo
8Mar13
Fit to be sung about from mountaintops! One of the most watchable yet radical experimental films that seems in its brief compass to encompass all of film & all of film theory. Whether you think of it as illusion extraordinaire in its editing rhythm or modernist demystification of film or lyrical celebration of the life of a city or investigation of the possibilities of film space its a triumph in every which way!
Tiago Steve
10Feb13
Vertov turns the pages of film history at an hallucinating rhythm. Confronting the viewer with this unusual experience, there is a poetic rediscovery of reality.
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Sefer Taslı Sapık
11Nov12
What an amazing Turkish movie with brilliant montage techniques. Kudos to his wife Yeizaveta Svilova. Greetings from Çorum.
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Franklinton Underground Cinema
7Oct12
Not only does this "documentary" give birth to film theory...it does so without words.
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Aaron Oliver-Carter
4Sep12
I found myself totally fixated while watching this. Understandably one of the most important films ever made. I'm interested to re-watch it with the Michael Nyman score soon to see if it adds anything to the film or not.
Harry Rossi
31Aug12
I think this is one of those films that is more important than it is entertaining, but still has some very interesting stuff. I wish I was a bit more engaged than I was but definitely worth seeing. The camerawork in this film is absolutely spectacular and thats the real reason to see it. However it's very detached which is why I think I wasn't 100% engaged.
Umberto L.
6Aug12
Not one of the Top Ten films of all-time, in my opinion, yet a GREAT unmissable silent picture. Making a smart use of film-editing and random pieces of Russian everyday life, Vertov (unconsciously?) foresaw the main route of a century. I have never seen a collection of beautiful documentary shots bringing to a result so cohesive, clever and stupendous.
Ali Ercivan
2Aug12
Thanks to Sight & Sound, I finally sat through this and found out how immensely creative and mind-opening it is. Impressive.
GaffordKINO
23Jun12
Like a magician unveiling how he performs a trick, Dziga Vertov demystifies motion picture images, showing the audience the filmmaking process. It was monumental in 1929, and remains so to this day.
msmichel
5Apr12
Perhaps cinema's first example of turning the camera back onto itself. This self reflective silent gem examines the power of the image at a time when the full capabilities of this new form of expression were still untapped. Even by modern standards some of the images and camera tricks used by Vertov here are staggering. Far ahead of its time in both inspiration and realization.
Fuzzbucket
21Feb12
The whole film can be seen by following this link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZkvjWIEcoU
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