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Blank City has not been reviewed by Broad National Press
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "A dogged journalist and a careful, enthusiastic cultural historian, documentarian Céline Danhier illuminates a hectic and fascinating place and time..." (Read the full review...) 842 words, 04/06/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Anyone who bemoans the gentrification of New York will revel in Celine Danhier's love letter to a long-ago city, back in the late '70s.... a collection of great clips, and it's extra fun to spot familiar faces (hi, Steve Buscemi!)." (Read the full review...) 113 words, 04/08/11 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "The doc flags toward the end, but it remains an absorbing snapshot of a daring time." (Read the full review...) 219 words, 05/27/11 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...does a first-rate job of remembering.... combines scenes from the era's rarely shown underground movies with new interviews with the renegade artists who thrived artistically way back then." (Read the full review...) 292 words, 04/06/11 Logan Hill, New York Magazine: VERY GOOD "...a banging, bumpy ride... worthy just for its condensed, montage tour through this creative eruption... vital..." (Read the full review...) 341 words, 04/08/11 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Céline Danhier's first directing effort is as maddeningly undisciplined as the movie community she's exploring, but it still stands as a worthy historical document..." (Read the full review...) 654 words, 07/15/11 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...a self-defeating user-friendly primer... shows lickspittle respect for a scene marked by youthful home rule." (Read the full review...) 221 words, 04/06/11 Stephen Cole, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a valentine to New York back when it was the Rotten Apple.... the all-night, every-night party was fun while it lasted." (Read the full review...) 572 words, 07/15/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Steve Buscemi, John Lurie, Debbie Harry, Ann Magnuson and Lydia Lunch seem quietly amazed that anyone's still talking about the little art projects they made three decades ago. But that's part of the charm." (Read the full review...) 149 words, 07/14/11
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: MODERATE (cg) "...evokes someone else's home movies. Watching the documentary may make you think, more than once, 'Fun party, but I guess you had to be there.' " (Read the full review...) 555 words, 06/17/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the real reason to see 'Blank City' is to catch snatches of the now-decades-old films - priceless DIY numbers that capture all the wild energy, humor, and rage of, if not a more innocent time, then certainly a cooler one." (Read the full review...) 312 words, 06/10/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "The slick beast we call 'indie cinema' today looks nothing like these films, but it'd be unthinkable without them." (Read the full review...) 554 words, 05/20/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...shows vitality from its first seconds, as it re-creates a world and a mind-set [NYC, late '70s/early '80s], both of which feel very far from America in the 21st century." (Read the full review...) 322 words, 06/03/11 Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "...provides welcome context to a wild, disparate scene; the many interview subjects include Jim Jarmusch, John Lurie, Amos Poe, Susan Seidelman, Charlie Ahearn, Fab 5 Freddy and Steve Buscemi." (Read the full review...) 115 words, 09/16/11
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...a self-defeating user-friendly primer... shows lickspittle respect for a scene marked by youthful home rule." (Read the full review...) 221 words, 04/06/11 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...not a great documentary. Too much is covered way too rapidly. Interviews are cut short, making room for samplings from No Wave movies." (Read the full review...) 584 words, 05/19/11 Noel Murray, AV Club: EXCELLENT (cg) "...not just a salute to the artistic adventurousness of a bygone New York, but a reminder that new strains of creativity keep emerging, just when the scene looks stalest." (Read the full review...) 423 words, 04/07/11 Michelle Orange, Movieline: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a dozen-plus talking heads interspersed with loops of footage feels like an uninspired choice to describe a group that might be defined as aptly by what didn't tie them together as what did." (Read the full review...) 755 words, 04/06/11 Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "To have been surviving amid the squalor and crime of Alphabet City was a fortunate fate too remarkable to go un-catalogued." (Read the full review...) 811 words, 04/04/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Steve Buscemi, John Lurie, Debbie Harry, Ann Magnuson and Lydia Lunch seem quietly amazed that anyone's still talking about the little art projects they made three decades ago. But that's part of the charm." (Read the full review...) 149 words, 07/14/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "A dogged journalist and a careful, enthusiastic cultural historian, documentarian Céline Danhier illuminates a hectic and fascinating place and time..." (Read the full review...) 842 words, 04/06/11 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "The doc flags toward the end, but it remains an absorbing snapshot of a daring time." (Read the full review...) 219 words, 05/27/11
Ronnie Scheib, Daily Variety: MODERATE "...often feels as inchoate as the phenomenon under discussion.... The major draw lies in its generous glimpses of rare, virtually lost Super-8 and 16mm films..." (Read the full review...) 545 words, 05/11/09 Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "...may not be groundbreaking, but it's vibrant and well researched..." (Read the full review...) 478 words, 11/09/10 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "The doc flags toward the end, but it remains an absorbing snapshot of a daring time." (Read the full review...) 219 words, 05/27/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "A dogged journalist and a careful, enthusiastic cultural historian, documentarian Céline Danhier illuminates a hectic and fascinating place and time..." (Read the full review...) 842 words, 04/06/11
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