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DVD

The films of Lionel Rogosin. Volume I, On the Bowery.

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43 F4879 (CEN)

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Edition

Deluxe DVD ed.

Publication Information

[Harrington Park, NJ] : Milestone Film & Video ; [New York] : Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories, c2012.

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (ca. 159 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A collection of three films by independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. "On the Bowery" chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer, a part-time railroad worker adrift on New York's skid row, the Bowery. "Good times, wonderful times" was Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. "Out" tells the plight of Hungarian refugees fleeing to Austria in the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Notes

Contains three films originally produced 1956-1964.

Special features: Martin Scorsese introduction ; "The perfect team : the making of On the Bowery" / directed by Michael Rogosin ; "A walk through the Bowery" / directed by Michael Rogosin ; "Bowery men's shelter" / directed by Rhody Streeter and Tony Ganz (1972) ; "Street of forgotten men" (1933) ; "On the Bowery" theatrical trailer ; "Man's peril : the making of GTWT" / directed by Michael Rogosin and Lloyd Ross.

Contents

  • [Disc 1.] On the Bowery / (1956 ; 65 min.)
  • [Disc 2.] Good times, wonderful times / (1964 ; 69 min.) ; Out (1957 ; 25 min.).

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