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Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Don Basin Reviews
Peter Bradshaw Guardian
This is something to be compared with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis or Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia; there is an occult passion to it.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2022
Andor Kraszna-Krausz Close Up
Vertoff, also, has waged fierce, vehement and esperate battles with his material and his instruments (i.e., reality and the film camera) to give practical proofs of his ideas. In this he has failed.
Full Review | Jan 20, 2021
Richard Brody New Yorker
The vigor and horror of the Russian Revolution provide both the substance and the stylistic inspiration of Dziga Vertov's 1931 film.
Full Review | Feb 1, 2016
Noel Murray The Dissolve
It's valuable for its attempts to cut together ambient sound and snippets of narration into something halfway between avant-garde music and soothing white noise.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2015
Dave Kehr Chicago Reader
I still find Vertov more interesting in the abstract than in the concrete, but his movies should be seen, particularly because they so often serve as inspiration for politically committed filmmakers.
Full Review | Nov 21, 2013