


“The Greatest Documentary Ever Made”
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
796 votes
Overview
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
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Dziga VertovWriter
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Streaming availability for India
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CinemaSerf
7.0Could this be the original observational documentary? We begin as the audience flood into a cinema and settle down in front of the big screen. The cameraman then takes us on a tour of his city with no apparent rhyme nor reason to the imagery we see. There's a bit of the old Imperial opulence reflected in the architecture to contrast with the street beggars (whom the Soviet Union aways denied existed). A very near miss whilst trying to get some POV footage of a train. Then what feels rather pruriently like a look at a woman's morning levée all intercut cleverly using the camera shutter to deliv…
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