Man with a Movie Camera

Dec 03, 2022

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If you'll pardon my slang, 1929's Man with a Movie Camera is basically the OG Baraka (which I am now realizing is already thirty years old). Both films deserve the label "documentary", for they are truly documents. Just don't confuse that phrase with "merely" documents.

Man with a Movie Camera is not only a document of a normal day in Soviet Odessa but a…

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