Pestilent City
Pestilent City covers Manhattan from South to North, from Times Square to Harlem, finding along the way ever more poverty, violence, rage and tragic drunkenness.
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I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Shot on 42 St. in New York, mostly in slow motion and sometimes in negative slow motion, accompanied by original and haunting music, the film captures the depravity, loneliness, poverty, and insanity of New York. While Woody Allen's upbeat New York exists, Goldman's New York also exists. With beggars and drunks lying on the streets and bodies passing film Marquees in a rhythmic slow motion the film reminded me of Geroge Grosz's paintings of Berlin in the 1920's. All of Goldman's films are known for their powerful imagery and Pestilent City is no exception. This is one reason the film was shown twice at the New York Film Festival. Goldman was one of the innovators of the film art, but his films have all but been forgotten.L.M