
Stations of the Elevated
1981, Documentary, 46m
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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 -
The film's range of subjects and ideas quickly expands to probe the exhilaration of city life itself.
October 13, 2014 | Full Review… -
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… -
All that we see in this beautiful, poetic documentary is nothing less than the birthplace of hip-hop.
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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… -
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…
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