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Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.
Follows the first year of business for Alex, Charlie, and Nigel as they try to make their theatre, The Toronto Underground Cinema, a success in the dying world of repertory cinema. The film also places the cinema in context to the larger world of rep. Featuring interviews with theatres such as Film Forum in NYC, The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, and The New Beverly Cinema in L.A., and celebrities such as Kevin Smith, John Waters, Atom Egoyan, and George A. Romero, the world of repertory cinema will come alive as a vibrant and culturally significant medium that needs to be preserved
A short companion piece that offers a present day walk through of Little Italy, now juxtaposing modern scenes with the world depicted in Mean Streets to illuminate its cultural and historical roots.
A fictionalized day in the life of Ramona Baker.
In this short documentary, created for the Criterion Collection in 2018, Bruce Goldstein, director of repertory programming at New York’s Film Forum and founder of Rialto Pictures, talks about the history of subtitles in the movies, gives tips on good subtitling practices, and pays tribute to veteran translator Lenny Borger.
Documentary short takes a tour of the New York City film locations of Speedy (1928) such as Times Square, Washington Square, Sheridan Square, Coney Island and Brooklyn.
In this short documentary and personal essay, Bruce Goldstein, founder of Rialto Pictures and repertory director at New York’s FIlm Forum, tracks down many of the 100+ New York City locations—from the Bronx to the Lower East Side—used in his friend Jules Dassin’s classic police procedural THE NAKED CITY, while also spotlighting the contributions of producer Mark Hellinger and cinematographer William Daniels.
