Event

Sidewalk Stories

Feb 07 - Feb 13

(Charles Lane, United States, 1989, DCP, 98 min)

New digital restoration!

Friday, Feb 07 at 07:00PM
Friday, Feb 07 at 09:00PM
Saturday, Feb 08 at 07:00PM
Saturday, Feb 08 at 09:00PM
Sunday, Feb 09 at 07:00PM
Sunday, Feb 09 at 09:00PM
Monday, Feb 10 at 01:00PM
Monday, Feb 10 at 03:00PM
Monday, Feb 10 at 07:00PM
Tuesday, Feb 11 at 07:00PM
Tuesday, Feb 11 at 09:00PM
Wednesday, Feb 12 at 07:00PM
Wednesday, Feb 12 at 09:00PM
Thursday, Feb 13 at 07:00PM
Thursday, Feb 13 at 09:00PM

While riding the subway home late one night after a graveyard shift in 1988, Charles Lane struck up a conversation with a homeless man about that night's championship boxing match. Two months later, writer-director-star Lane started production on his first feature.

A tale of the friendship between a tramp and a little girl, Sidewalk Stories is a black and white silent comedy that deftly pays tribute both to Charlie Chaplin's The Kid and the human experiences of homelessness on the streets of New York. Awarded the Guggenheim Special Prize as "The Best Source of Inspiration for Children," this restoration is a timely rediscovery of a significant work from 1980s New African-American cinema.