Foreign Parts

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Foreign Parts

2010

1h 20m

Documentary

Drama

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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.

A.O. Scott

New York Times

A busy, complicated world within the space of few unlovely city blocks.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 10, 2011

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Keith Uhlich

Time Out

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.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 9, 2011

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Nick Schager

Village Voice

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.

Mar 8, 2011

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Robert Koehler

Cinema Scope

... 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.

Oct 2, 2017

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Donald J. Levit

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

These are good people, rough-edged but pleasant, depicted while not romanticized.

Jan 19, 2012

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Audience Member

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.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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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.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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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