Le Cinema Club is showing Many Kirchheimer’s astonishing Free Time (for free) and today, August 10, is the last day you can watch it. Released in 2019, the footage was “shot on a 16mm Bolex between 1957 and 1960.” You will see the streets of New York (and those streets alone) before they were a cinematic cliché (maybe they already were). Manny Kirchheimer filmed “children playing stickball, mothers smoking on stoops, and men strolling beneath skyscrapers’ shade.” Kirchheimer’s eye is kind and steady and he loves all of the shadows.
August 10 2023
August 10 2023
August 10 2023
Le Cinema Club is showing Many Kirchheimer’s astonishing Free Time (for free) and today, August 10, is the last day you can watch it. Released in 2019, the footage was “shot on a 16mm Bolex between 1957 and 1960.” You will see the streets of New York (and those streets alone) before they were a cinematic cliché (maybe they already were). Manny Kirchheimer filmed “children playing stickball, mothers smoking on stoops, and men strolling beneath skyscrapers’ shade.” Kirchheimer’s eye is kind and steady and he loves all of the shadows.