Abel Ferrara: Filming (on) the Wild Side (of New York) Philippe Met September 2013 Feature Articles “ 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...
Urban Modernity and Fluctuating Time: “Catching the Tempo” of the 1920s City Symphony Films Sarah Jilani September 2013 Feature Articles 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. ...
Jewish Streetscapes: Ken Jacobs in Lower Manhattan Federico Windhausen September 2013 Feature Articles 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 Cinema Storm on the Upper West Side: The 50th New York Film Festival Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling November 2012 Festival Reports 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...
Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture by Raymond J. Haberski, Jr Patrick Ellis February 2009 Book Reviews 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...
City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination edited by Murray Pomerance Anna Knight February 2009 Book Reviews 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...
