Man with a Movie Camera (and other works by Dziga Vertov) - Eureka! 4 disk set

[Sifox211]

Details of the forthcoming 4 disk set from Eureka!

''The greatest documentary ever made'' - Sight & Sound

SYNOPSIS:

Voted one of the ten best films ever made in the Sight & Sound 2012 poll, and the best documentary ever in a subsequent poll in 2014, Man With A Movie Camera (Chelovek's kinoapparatom) stands as one of cinema's most essential documents - a dazzling exploration of the possibilities of image-making as related to the everyday world around us.

The culmination of a decade of experiments to render ''the chaos of visual phenomena filling the universe'', Dziga Vertov's masterwork uses a staggering array of cinematic devices to capture the city at work and at play, as well as the machines that power it.

Presented in a definitive new restoration from EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam and Lobster Films, the film is also presented with other works by Vertov, both before and after his masterpiece - Kino-Eye (1924), Kino-Pravda #21 (1925), Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1931) and Three Songs About Lenin (1934) - in this limited-edition 4-Disc Dual-Format edition.

SPECIAL FEATURES including:

• Limited-edition 4-Disc Dual-Format
• New high-definition restored transfers of all five films
• Uncompressed PCM audio on all films
• Scores by The Alloy Orchestra for Man With A Movie Camera and Robert Israel for Kino-Eye
• New audio commentary on Man With A Movie Camera by film scholar Adrian Martin
• The Life and Times of Dziga Vertov, an exclusive, lengthy video interview with film scholar Ian Christie on Vertov's career and the films in this set
• 100-page limited edition book featuring the words of Dziga Vertov, archival image

ry and more!

REVIEWS:

''Dziga Vertov's 1929 experimental Soviet propaganda picture is breathtaking in its formal ingenuity.'' - Independent

''...Soviet cinema's avant-garde in its last and most brilliant phase'' - Philip Kemp

''Dziga Vertov's experimental documentary essay remains fascinating after all these years'' - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

''Cinema in its purest form; movement, sensation, action and visual trickery'' - Time Out

''This is an exuberant manifesto that celebrates the infinite possibilities of what cinema can be'' - Jonathan Romney, Observer

Currently £29.99 at Amazon so if you order now you can get free shipping with the hope of the price dropping nearer release.

[Superted]

Pre ordered

[applemac]

Originally Posted by Sifox211

New audio commentary on Man With A Movie Camera by film scholar Adrian Martin
The Life and Times of Dziga Vertov, an exclusive, lengthy video interview with film scholar Ian Christie on Vertov's career and the films in this set

I think these are new additions from the US Flicker Alley release, otherwise it all looks to be the same.

Great news!

[Sifox211]

I saw it this year on the big screen with the Alloy Orchestra score which was really good. Would be nice to compare with the Nyman version - maybe rent the BFI for that.

[IanSchultz23]

Originally Posted by Sifox211

maybe rent the BFI for that.

If there was anywhere to rent stuff anymore.... I don't get why people still say that

[rapta]

Just buy the BFI when it's £7-8? That's what I'm gonna do.

[silverlakephil]

Originally Posted by rapta

Just buy the BFI when it's £7-8? That's what I'm gonna do.

Eureka just posted a clip on their Youtube channel:

MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Masters of Cinema) Clip - YouTube

It looks like the same or similar transfer as the Flicker Alley (rounded corners, less print damage) and I think looks better then BFI's:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-r...ra_blu-ray.htm

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by rapta

Just buy the BFI when it's £7-8? That's what I'm gonna do.

Compared to the restored Flicker Alley release (and hopefully this one), the BFI looks terrible. That's why you don't do that.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by IanSchultz23

If there was anywhere to rent stuff anymore.... I don't get why people still say that

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bypost/st...ds=75679019222

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by IanSchultz23

If there was anywhere to rent stuff anymore.... I don't get why people still say that

There are plenty of places, especially for world cinema. My local library has an amazing section of dvd and Blu-ray titles, both old and new. Leeds library is even better, and I'm 100% certain that they'll have a copy of Man With A Movie Camera there (tho which version I'd be less certain in predicting). Univiersities have even better libraries too, tho public access depends on the institution.

My dream is to open a Close-Up style space in the north of England.

[Sifox211]

When I lived in Burnley in the 80s the library there had a great range of stuff - I was even able to check out a miniature score of Nielsen's fourth symphony, not exactly a commonly requested item I'm sure.

To my shame I hardly ever use the library here in Aberdeen but maybe I should go along and see if they have MWAMC... or as Mifunefan pointed out, get it from Amazon, from whom I rent a couple of disks a month

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by adamhopelies

My local library has an amazing section of dvd and Blu-ray titles, both old and new. Leeds library is even better, and I'm 100% certain that they'll have a copy of Man With A Movie Camera there (tho which version I'd be less certain in predicting). Univiersities have even better libraries too, tho public access depends on the institution.

Pretty sure my university library only carries DVDs. *cries*

[Dougling]

Originally Posted by IanSchultz23

If there was anywhere to rent stuff anymore.... I don't get why people still say that

Whereabouts are you based? There's usually somewhere to rent stuff, be it an actual rental shop or a library. Where I live in Bristol there's a place called 20th Century Flicks with a library exceeding 20,000 films. These places still exist, you just have to look for them.

[IanSchultz23]

Originally Posted by Dougling

Whereabouts are you based? There's usually somewhere to rent stuff, be it an actual rental shop or a library. Where I live in Bristol there's a place called 20th Century Flicks with a library exceeding 20,000 films. These places still exist, you just have to look for them.

Leeds, I do have over 1000 blu-rays and another 1000 dvds so no need to rent anything.

[88mph]

Will it include the Nyman and Cinematic Orchestra scores as well?

[oddbox83]

Originally Posted by 88mph

Will it include the Nyman and Cinematic Orchestra scores as well?

Nyman score is exclusive to the BFI edition. If you love the film then as with Nosferatu, you get both! The BFI editions might be taken from older restorations but they're still brand new transfers of film so still look very good and it's a different way to experience them. Especially Nosferatu. That film looked stunning on the MoC BD but it's got that rougher charm I remember from when I first saw it on the BFI BD.

[nils]

YES !!! Transfer same that Fliker/Lobster, but Eureka issue have video bitrate is 35 Mbps!!! See compare screenshots: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-r...ra_blu-ray.htm

[rezpekt]

Package shot from Eureka's Facebook page:

Originally Posted by nils

YES !!! Transfer same that Fliker/Lobster, but Eureka issue have video bitrate is 35 Mbps!!! See compare screenshots: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-r...ra_blu-ray.htm

No surprise. We already knew these would be the same restorations and we also knew Lyris/David Mackenzie does not half-ass his encodes.

[tenia]

He also re sync the Alloy Orchestra score for Man with a Movie Camera. Visibly, the score was not sync to the cut prepped up by Lobster and thus was not a 100% match.

[nils]

Originally Posted by tenia

He also re sync the Alloy Orchestra score for Man with a Movie Camera. Visibly, the score was not sync to the cut prepped up by Lobster and thus was not a 100% match.

Exactly. Because Alloy Orchestra made theirs score for other film transfer of this movie. Lobster transfer is longer by the chapter numbers and some other short scenes. How can possible MoC made this score sync without cutting footage or others changes in original video sequence??? The big doubts.

You know about Lobster/Flicker video disfiguration with numerous (thousands!) double frame sequences freezes whole timeline and cutted 1-3 first and last frames in each (EACH!!!) scenes changes in entire movie? How about this disfiguration in Eureka edition? It is???