On the Bowery : THE FILMS OF LIONEL ROGOSIN - VOL. 1
DVD Engelsk 2012 · Dokumentar
Tekstet på: Engelsk
| Utgitt | <S.l.> : Milestone , 2012
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| Omfang | 2 DVD-er
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| Opplysninger | For songwriter Woody Guthrie, his guitar was a machine that "kills fascists." for Lionel Rogosin, the weapon of choice was a movie camera, and his first battle was waged on the streets of New York City. Exploring the underworld of the city's skid row, Rogosin developed his signature style. After months drinking with men he met on the Bowery, Rogosin worked with his buddies to write a screenplay that reflected their lives and then cast them as themselves. This technique of making films "from the inside" allowed Rogosin to film ordinary people caught up in universal problems. His films explored alcoholism, homelessness, racial discrimination, war, labor conflict, and poverty with great compassion and honesty. This collection includes ON THE BOWERY (1956), GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES (1964) and OUT.. - A mix of documentary and scripted footage On the Bowery chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer, a part-time railroad worker adrift on New York s skid row. When the film opened it 1956, it exploded on the screen, burning away years of Hollywood artifice, jump-starting the post-war American independent film movement and earning an Oscar nomination. Now gloriously restored by the Cineteca di Bologna, On the Bowery is both an incredible document of a bygone era and a vivid and devastating portrait of addiction that resonates today just as it did when it was made.
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