For much of the last half century, Cyprus-born theater operator Nick Nicolaou has lived and breathed the world of New York City cinema. Starting with the Times Square’ adult film houses of the 1970’s and moving through decades of forced change at the hands of city regulation, chain takeovers, and vast cultural shifts, Nicolaou now exists as one of the last truly independent theater owners left standing, as he works to keep his low-cost theaters alive in an industry aiming to push them out. Returning to the city for his first New York-set documentary in nearly a decade, Abel Ferrara traces both the story of Nicolaou’s life and the changing city that it reflects, from the cleansing of Times Square to the fight for survival of the outer boroughs’ few remaining neighborhood theaters. The result is a charmingly off-the-cuff odyssey through the history of film exhibition, New York, and the long-standing intersection of the two
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For much of the last half century Cyprus-born theater operator Nick Nicolaou has lived and breathed the world of New York City cinema. Starting with the Times Square’ adult film houses of the 1970’s and moving through decades of forced change at the hands of city regulation chain takeovers and vast cultural shifts Nicolaou now exists as one of the last truly independent the...
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跟随Nicolaou，回顾纽约独立院线随着整座城市的风云更迭所经历的时代记忆。支撑Nicolaou的，来自于对电影的爱，对家人的爱，对纽约的爱，亦是费拉拉的精神支柱。纪录对象的选取仍非常带有费拉拉的个人趣味，成人院线的历史，穷街陋巷的故事，夹缝中求生存的江湖。可以拍成一部相当棒的虚构剧情片，但费拉拉仍选择了纪录，出于同样一路走来的，对生活虔诚的自觉和信仰。
