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...remember subway tokens? The two-color chunky metal coins cost about a dollar back in 1988,the same year I read Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, a truthful book about the hard social and political realities of New York. I read most of it "on site" in my call room at Harlem Hospital. One night, the phone in that room rang and I was told to come down to the Emergency Room fast. They had a 16-year-old boy there who was bleeding to death; his leg had been run over by a subway train...
...give. His right foot was mangled-bits of sneaker mixed in with clotted blood, bone, cartilage and tendon. His left leg was hanging by skin. The jagged stump of his tibia stuck out just below the knee-pretty much what you would expect from the wheel of a subway train. Even in Harlem, this was pretty...
...Still and all, the Subway Cinema lads haven?t lost their eyes. Even their conventional choices display pinwheeling formal expertise. Simply by being shown on a New York movie screen, these films underline the cinematic stodginess of most American films. Compared to a movie like the Korean Duelist or the Japanese Cromartie High School, the Hollywood product looks pretty paltry...
...hope you can get to Anthology to soak up the atmosphere of the NYAFF. And if not, go to Subway?s website to savor the blurb-writing skills of Grady Hendrix, the savviest young writer on film I know, east or west. One little pity: there?s not a Hong Kong film in this year?s bundle. But there are plenty worth considering. Let?s check out a few of them...
...like an Iraqi oil factory, and when Kamiyama presses them to renounce smoking, they protest: "Our lips would be lonely? And our fingers too." You?ll find no girls in Cromartie, but plenty of aliens. In a way, the movie is a throwback to the hip, infantile tastes of Subway?s youthful days. Bless it, and them...