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Filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer witnesses the graffiti movement in New York City.
  • Genre:
    documentary
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Manfred Kirchheimer
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    Streetwise Films

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Manfred Kirchheimer
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Charles Mingus
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Critic Reviews for Stations of the Elevated

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  • Stations of the Elevated plays like a time capsule, particularly for having no dialogue or plot. It swings to Charles Mingus's hardest bop and evokes a long-gone city, somehow more adult and confrontational even in silence.

    October 14, 2014 | Rating: 4/5

    Joshua Rothkopf

    Time Out

  • The film's range of subjects and ideas quickly expands to probe the exhilaration of city life itself.

    October 13, 2014 | Full Review…

    Richard Brody

    New Yorker

  • Lumbering, skronking, and wondrously paint-bombed, Manfred Kirchheimer's Stations of the Elevated (1981) is a 45-minute proto-hip-hop bliss-out, a masterpiece of train- and tag-spotting ...

    June 24, 2014 | Full Review…

    Alan Scherstuhl

    Village Voice

  • All that we see in this beautiful, poetic documentary is nothing less than the birthplace of hip-hop.

    September 6, 2018 | Full Review…

    Charles Mudede

    The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

  • New York can be a chaotic city, and [Charles] Mingus' music (and personality) a volatile match, but there are tender moments to both the city and the music.

    August 31, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Pat Padua

    Spectrum Culture

  • Kirchheimer appears more interested in the way the subway interacts with urban life, cutting through neighbourhoods like a scalpel through flesh and how people have taken to the individual subway cars as canvases to educate, provoke, and infuriate.

    October 17, 2014 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

    Glenn Dunks

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