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Man With a Movie Camera review – pure cinema, still unparalleled

Made in 1929, this unclassifiable film is the work of pioneering Soviet experimenter David Kaufman, whose pseudonym Dziga Vertov means “spinning top” – if you like, cinema’s original dizzy rascal. Man With a Movie Camera came top last year in Sight & Sound’s poll of greatest documentaries, and to this day it looks and feels like nothing else.

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