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In 1929, Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov made the groundbreaking Man With a Movie Camera documentary--a visual essay on life between the two world wars. Touching on poverty, sport and employment in Russia in the 1920s, Man With a Movie Camera was a masterpiece of silent filmmaking.
There have been numerous soundtracks over the years that have attempted to provide Vertov's stunning images with the musical accompaniment they deserve, Michael Nyman minimalist take or Biosphere's electronica reading to name two. The Cinematic Orchestra have been using footage from the film for their live visuals and wrote a piece of the same name for their last album Every Day. They debuted their full soundtrack on the opening night of the Barbican's Only Connect season, augmenting their line up with a string section.
The Cinematic Orchestra, as their name would suggest, can work detail and development into their compositions that reflect the mood of the film. The addition of a string section compliments the bands music, moving away from the jazz funk of their live sets towards something more powerful. Often fusion between the music and images work so well, you forget that the film remained without this soundtrack for 70-odd years.
On the DVD: The Cinematic Orchestra extras include two live tracks, two videos ("All that you give" and "Man with a movie camera") plus a documentary entitled "From Reel To Reel". --Robert Smoughton
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In 1929, Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov made the groundbreaking Man With a Movie Camera documentary--a visual essay on life between the two world wars. Touching on poverty, sport and employment in Russia in the 1920s, Man With a Movie Camera was a masterpiece of silent filmmaking. There have been numerous soundtracks over the years that have attempted to provide Vertov's stunning images with the musical accompaniment they deserve, Michael Nyman minimalist take or Biosphere's electronica reading to name two. The Cinematic Orchestra have been using footage from the film for their live visuals and wrote a piece of the same name for their last album Every Day. They debuted their full soundtrack on the opening night of the Barbican's Only Connect season, augmenting their line up with a string section. The Cinematic Orchestra, as their name would suggest, can work detail and development into their compositions that reflect the mood of the film. The addition of a string section compliments the bands music, moving away from the jazz funk of their live sets towards something more powerful. Often fusion between the music and images work so well, you forget that the film remained without this soundtrack for 70-odd years.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stunning, Quality, The power of Image and Perfect Music...,
This review is from: Cinematic Orchestra: Man With A Movie Camera [DVD] (DVD)
I saw the concert of this stunning and extremely skilled jazz-band. Jazzband? Well, they're much more than that actually...I have all their other releases in my collection and they have a wide range of musical interests and styles. The magnificent tracks on their last studio album 'Every Day' all have that magic touch where the room gets filled with their laidback but powerfull sound. The concert where they played along with the movie 'Man With A Movie Camera' projected behind them on a big screen was pure magic... All members of the band are gifted with the skill to play nothing more than the essential notes that are necessary to give the images the right sound. And sometimes you are stunned by the fantastic combination of music and image. Yes, perfection, it's impossible to beat this. And I also want to say that the movie itself is so very pure... Check it out yourself, you will show this to your grandchildren !!! Believe me, this is state of the art. Respect.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best experience of your life,
This review is from: Cinematic Orchestra: Man With A Movie Camera [DVD] (DVD)
I'll level with you I haven't seen the DVD but I have seen The Cinematic Orchestra perform the soundtrack live at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and it was the most fantastic experience of my life. The music is (I cant think of a suitable adjective, its so fantastically wondefully majestically inpirationaly daringly artily just great, so insert you own here) "very good" and suits the film absolutely perfectly which is worth a watch on its own the way it conveys so much with just brief glimpses of peoples lives.In short get this DVD and grovel at the feet of geniuses. P.S I recommend a srround sound system very loud for full eye whopping effect.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Music and Film Work Surprisingly Well Together,
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This review is from: Cinematic Orchestra: Man With A Movie Camera [DVD] (DVD)
I'm a big fan of The Cinematic Orchestra and have all theie albums. I finally picked up the DVD for The Man With A Movie Camera... although I've had the CD album for a considerable time.
Having seen the DVD, I'm amazed how well TCO's music goes with the images. You might have thought that TCO's brand of jazz and beat work (great drumming by the way...) would be totally out of sync with a film made in 1929. Nothing could be further from the truth. I hope this leads to TCO and Jason Swincoe getting more film and tv work....
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