BP320 Man with a Movie Camera

BP320 Man with a Movie Camera

From The Best Pick movie podcast by Film fans John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

July 30, 2025 · 1h 21m · Episode 320

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The episode discusses the 1929 experimental Soviet documentary 'Man with a Movie Camera' and its significance in film history.

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 320: Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek's kinoapparatom) Released 30 July 2025 For this episode, we watched the 1929 experimental Soviet documentary Man with a Movie Camera , written and directed by Dziga Vertov. Our version had a soundtrack composed by Michael Nyman. For its age, it's a relatively recent entry to the Sight and Sound list, making its first entry in 1992, making it to the top ten in 2012 and settling in ninth place in 2022. It has a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Next time we will be discussing In the Mood for Love . If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode, you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk , or Amazon.com , or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA) . BEST PICK the book is available now from all the usual places, and the paperback is out now. From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101 UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108 US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434 Audio book…

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