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- The talking heads featured in "Rubble Kings," a fascinating documentary about the proliferation of New York City street gangs during the 1970s, are gifted talkers. That makes up for a lot of the gaps in their knowledgeable, but essentially sanitized narrative, a sensational, but unbelievably hopeful story about the triumph of grass-roots activism.
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Jun 19, 2015 · The talking heads featured in "Rubble Kings," a fascinating documentary about the proliferation of New York City street gangs during the 1970s, are gifted talkers. That makes up for a lot of the gaps in their knowledgeable, but essentially sanitized narrative, a sensational, but unbelievably hopeful story about the triumph of grass-roots activism.
Directed by Shan Nicholson and narrated by comedian and native Nuyorican John Leguizamo, Rubble Kings is a cinematic wet dream for fetishists of that mythical “Old New York” I talked about in ...
Sep 27, 2023 · The Talking Heads’ 1984 concert movie—which A24 recently rereleased in theaters—is as propulsive today as it was the day it came out: an ingenious, joyous celebration of music and the iconic...
Nov 18, 2014 · With the idealism of the 60s fading, the city was experiencing swift urban decay and the residents of the South Bronx felt this shift more than most. In Shan Nicholson’s new documentary Rubble Kings, former South Bronx gang members remember the state of their neighborhood at that time: “Rats. No heat. No water. It was terrible,” they all ...
Rubble Kings Review. By Sam Bennett. The social and economic strife in New York in the sixties and seventies gave birth to one of the most influential and popular subculture's in recent memory ...
Mar 8, 2024 · The collaboration between Talking Heads and director Jonathan Demme at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood was a key milestone in using a live concert recording to merge cinema and music. The New Hollywood era had reshaped the role of sound in film, with movies like American Graffiti (1973), The Conversation (1974), Blow Out (1981) and Nashville ...
Jun 15, 2015 · Nicholson’s aesthetic conventionally but exhilaratingly mixes talking heads with archive news and privately filmed home-video footage. There are memorable images of gang warfare, including snippets of various hazing rituals (referred to as an Apache Trail), and a weirdly eerie moment in which several kids push down a shack that’s barely ...
