Movies

• Man with a Movie Camera

  Man with a Movie Camera (Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом, romanized: Chelovek s kinoapparatom) is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov, filmed by his brother Mikhail Kaufman, and edited by Vertov's wife Yelizaveta Svilova. Kaufman also appears as the eponymous Man of the film.

  Vertov's feature film, produced by the film studio All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration (VUFKU), presents urban life in Moscow, Kiev and Odessa during the late 1920s. It has no actors. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. To the extent that it can be said to have "characters", they are the cameramen of the title, the film editor, and the modern Soviet Union they discover and present in the film.

• Man with a Movie Camera (The Cinematic Orchestra album)

  Man with a Movie Camera is a 2003 soundtrack album by The Cinematic Orchestra, released on 26 May 2003 on Ninja Tune. The album contains re-workings and thematic reprises of some of the music from the band's previous album, 2002's Every Day, including the track "Man with a Movie Camera" and an instrumental version of "All Things to All Men" entitled "All Things".

  Man with a Movie Camera comprises the soundtrack to a re-released version of the then ground-breaking 1929 silent documentary film of the same name from Soviet director Dziga Vertov.

I really enjoyed this analysis of Chicken Run.
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just made a profile a couple of months ago, would love to follow comrades on there.

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I have a few movies I wanna watch that are vaguely lefty. BUT, western movies rarely have good things to say or portray about leftist societies. A few that come to mind to watch are Goodbye Lenin, The Trotsky and Reds. Idk if these are critical of leftists or not but why not watch them and review them at a later point. I watched Red Dawn recently and man I had a lot to say about it. I guess part of what I’m saying is, is this community dying or not, bc if not I’d be willing to do weekly or biweekly movie reviews(biweekly as in, twice a week, not to be confused with the word biweekly meaning once every two weeks,English is confusing lol) if this community is dead, then I guess I’ll find out one way or another🤣 BTW: not to advertise or anything cringe but I like using the JustWatch app for keeping track of my watchlist and seeing where to watch these for free depending on which app or service has it or not, worst case scenario a friend TOTALLY DOESN’T PIRATE IT for me and I “find out a way to watch it quick”

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This is the story of the late Omar Mukhtar, an elderly rebel who spent the last two decades of his life struggling against European colonialism and specifically Italian Fascism in Libya. Note that some of the characters in this dramatization (like Sandrini) are fictional, but almost certainly had numerous real‐life analogues.

As long as you can tolerate depictions of warfare, there is no better gift that you could give me than merely watching this film. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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They're my favorite of all time, they take place in the Soviet Union post-Great Patriotic War, they follow the "Gangster Fighting Division" (not great translations being honest) of the Moscow police. The main enemies of the films are gangsters in general, though mainly it's focused around two things, the murderer of a woman, and the gang the "Black Cat" (черная кошка.) They are very revealing of Soviet society as well. The ex-soldier Sharapov asks if they could interrogate a presumed gangster, but they laugh as you are only they were only allowed to interrogate proven criminals. It also reveals how everyone was drafted during the war and people are still recovering though living a happy life. (Ex: the female police Sharapov officer meets while handling a case with a baby in the second film.) Over all really love them, watch them!

Mine is the John wick series, whats yours?

Sounds like one of those stupid dorky and "meme-y" movies that I might like despite all the cliche dumb nonsense mentioned here (actually, a lot of what's mentioned here is normally off-putting, but I feel like I need something that I can't take seriously or that I find to be "light" entertainment).

Idk. We'll see.