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Foreign Parts

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Residents of Willets Point, an industrial site filled with scrap heaps and auto shops, try to stop their evictions to allow for urban renewal.

Critics Reviews

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A.O. Scott New York Times 03/10/2011
4/5
A busy, complicated world within the space of few unlovely city blocks. Go to Full Review
Keith Uhlich Time Out 03/09/2011
4/5
The observational spirit of Frederick Wiseman hangs over the initial scenes of Verena Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki's heartbreaking doc about the auto shops and junkyards of Willets Point, Queens. Go to Full Review
Nick Schager Village Voice 03/08/2011
Foreign Parts engages in sociological inquiry without narration or contextual handholding, utilizing incisive, striking aesthetics (a panorama of hanging side mirrors, worn shoes trudging through grimy puddles) to elicit potent subcultural immersion. Go to Full Review
Robert Koehler Cinema Scope 10/02/2017
... a work of salvage anthropology that never insists on any particular kind of political stance until after the full reality of what they've recorded and subsequently edited has settled in. Go to Full Review
Donald J. Levit ReelTalk Movie Reviews 01/19/2012
These are good people, rough-edged but pleasant, depicted while not romanticized. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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03/17/2013 Documentary filmmaking as it should be. Movies like this make me feel not alone, not just as a filmmaker, but as a human being. Beautiful work. See more 09/23/2012 Observational and extremely slow-paced in nature. These few blocks abutting Flushing's Citi Field are a gritty & neglected bazaar of auto chop shops and auto parts vendors, yet they're no denying they provide the city with a valuable service. It was interesting to see close up who the unusual people are that make up the backbone of this type of neighborhood & work. Even more interesting to see that it is endeared by some, enough to try to halt the City's plan to raze it, in order to beautify the view from Citi Field. Eighty minutes was a bit too long of a view, however, and it is pure observation, no narration, no plotline, no conclusion. Worth watching if you think it might interest you, but keep your thumb on the fast forward button. See more 07/25/2011 <a></a> <img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/auteurs_production/stills/9737/original.jpeg?1289453048" width="240" border="0" /> See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Residents of Willets Point, an industrial site filled with scrap heaps and auto shops, try to stop their evictions to allow for urban renewal.
Director
Verena Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki
Producer
J.P. Sniadecki
Production Co
Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, Modulus Studios
Genre
Documentary, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 8, 2017
Runtime
1h 20m