Pretty Packaging: MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA Makes You Say Eureka
A few choice distributors have made a name for themselves by making their releases veritable own-able museums about the films they contain. Criterion can rightfully call themselves the inventor of the term "Special Edition", back in their Laserdisc days, experimenting with commentary tracks and such things, and thankfully those things were successful enough to be copied by many.
While America had Criterion, in Europe we got a counterpart in UK distributor Eureka, when they decided to launch their own museum-style imprint, calling it the Masters of Cinema series. Movie buffs do well to keep their eyes on the line-ups of both.
Case in point: Eureka MoC's new release of Man with a Movie Camera, the 1929 documentary feature by Dziga Vertov, which is still considered to be one of the highlights of cinema history and one of the best films ever made. A full review of the film will arrive on this page a bit later, but for now we have a gallery of pictures, showing how great this release is.
Eureka has pulled out the stops with regards to sound and vision, but they have also provided a wealth of extras, most notably an extra two discs of short films by Vertov, and a great 100-page booklet with essays on the man and his works.
While the on-disc features probably win it from the off-disc features, the release as a whole is still a very attractive-looking package. Therefore, here is a gallery of shots. Click on the edge of the pictures to scroll through them, or at the center of each to see a bigger version.
While America had Criterion, in Europe we got a counterpart in UK distributor Eureka, when they decided to launch their own museum-style imprint, calling it the Masters of Cinema series. Movie buffs do well to keep their eyes on the line-ups of both.
Case in point: Eureka MoC's new release of Man with a Movie Camera, the 1929 documentary feature by Dziga Vertov, which is still considered to be one of the highlights of cinema history and one of the best films ever made. A full review of the film will arrive on this page a bit later, but for now we have a gallery of pictures, showing how great this release is.
Eureka has pulled out the stops with regards to sound and vision, but they have also provided a wealth of extras, most notably an extra two discs of short films by Vertov, and a great 100-page booklet with essays on the man and his works.
While the on-disc features probably win it from the off-disc features, the release as a whole is still a very attractive-looking package. Therefore, here is a gallery of shots. Click on the edge of the pictures to scroll through them, or at the center of each to see a bigger version.
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