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Stations of the Elevated

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Filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer witnesses the graffiti movement in New York City.
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Joshua Rothkopf Time Out 10/14/2014
4/5
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. Go to Full Review Richard Brody The New Yorker 10/13/2014
The film's range of subjects and ideas quickly expands to probe the exhilaration of city life itself. Go to Full Review Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice 06/24/2014
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 ... Go to Full Review Charles Mudede The Stranger (Seattle, WA) 09/06/2018
All that we see in this beautiful, poetic documentary is nothing less than the birthplace of hip-hop. Go to Full Review Pat Padua Spectrum Culture 08/31/2018
4/5
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. Go to Full Review Glenn Dunks Glenn Dunks 10/17/2014
B+
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. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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10/30/2014 Mesmerizing. It's interesting how one man found beauty in trains moving into and out of subway terminals. But a little goes a long way. See more Read all reviews
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Manfred Kirchheimer

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Synopsis Filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer witnesses the graffiti movement in New York City.
Director
Manfred Kirchheimer
Production Co
Streetwise Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 20, 2016
Runtime
46m
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