Man With a Movie Camera
Director: Dziga Vertov
Year Released: 1929
Rating: 4.0
Breathtaking early experimental film that (somehow) sustains its momentum well over an hour despite its non-narrative nature and steady stream of disconnected imagery. Politically, it shows Communism as being glorious and utopian, marveling at the happiness of people under such a system, but I prefer to see it as a view of the joys and wonderment of life itself, a feel good movie where babies are born, people are laughing, days are spent at the beach and the city never stops moving. For being one of the first important avant-garde pictures ever made, it has certainly kept up over all these years.
