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Shorts for Days: Cityscapes

Penelope Bartlett on Cityscapes

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Criterion Channel programmer Penelope Bartlett discusses the films in Shorts for Days: Cityscapes.

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    À propos de Nice

    À propos de Nice

    Directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman • 1930 • France

    Jean Vigo was twenty-five when he made this, his debut film, a silent cinematic poem that reveals, through a thrilling and ironic use of montage, the economic reality hidden behind the facade of the Mediterranean resort town of Nice. The fi...

  • N.U.
    11:53
    N.U.

    N.U.

    Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1948 • Italy

    This 1948 film by Antonioni documents the lives of street cleaners in Rome. N.U. is short for Nettezza urbana, the Italian municipal cleaning service.

  • Daybreak Express
    05:43
    Daybreak Express

    Daybreak Express

    Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1953 • United States

    Shot in 1953, though not completed until 1957, DAYBREAK EXPRESS was the first film D. A. Pennebaker made, a mad rush of images of New York City captured from a train and edited to the rhythm of Duke Ellington’s song of the same name. A jazz afi...

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