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 …showed first 75 words of 1235 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1235 total…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.