Tagged New York

“ New York City is the place where they said Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side ” –Lou Reed, Walk on the Wild Side, 1972 Irrespective of his status as an American cinéaste maudit who is still largely ign...

Writing in 1926, Virginia Woolf expressed a certain suspicion that, if anywhere, "the past could be unrolled, distances annihilated in the chaos of the streets", (1) as represented via the new medium of film. ...

Tightly knit and momentarily coherent within its own perimeter, the Lower East Side nevertheless represented an experiment in collective rootlessness, a brief transcendence over nationhood by a people that had ...

A dialogue between Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling I. NYFF & Richard Peña JS: A film festival is always more fun with a friend. So for this report of the 50th annual New York Film Festival we thoug...

The Paris Theater, on 58th Street in Manhattan, once received bomb threats for showing Roberto Rossellini’s “Il Miracolo” (“The Miracle”) from L’Amore (1948); it is now another stop on the Sex and the City tour...

In his essay on New York as “noir universe” in City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that, New York has a hold on our imagination because it is so compact, s...