Wednesday, January 26, 2011

"The Ultimate New York Movie"

"Landing in the public eye a few years after Morris Engel's Coney Island–set Little Fugitive, Rogosin's modest, chilly movie also influenced Cassavetes and the French new wavers, and from there American independent cinema was on its way to becoming an identifiable species."

Michael Atkinson in the LA Weekly revisits 1957's On the Bowery.

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