Centers

January. 01,1971      NR
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Poet and artist Vito Acconci points his finger towards the camera and his own reflection in an offscreen video monitor.

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New York Portrait, Chapter I
New York Portrait, Chapter I
Hutton's most impressive work ... the filmmaker's style takes on an assertive edge that marks his maturity. The landscape has a majesty that serves to reflect the meditative interiority of the artist independent of any human presence. ... New York is framed in the dark nights of a lonely winter. The pulse of street life finds no role in NEW YORK PORTRAIT; the dense metropolitan population and imposing urban locale disappear before Hutton's concern for the primal force of a universal presence. With an eye for the ordinary, Hutton can point his camera toward the clouds finding flocks of birds, or turn back to the simple objects around his apartment struggling to elicit a personal intuition from their presence. ... Hutton finds a harmonious, if at times melancholy, rapport with the natural elements that retain their grace in spite of the city's artificial environment. The city becomes a ghost town that the filmmaker transforms into a vehicle reflecting his personal mood.
New York Portrait, Chapter I 1979

Reviews

TrueJoshNight
1971/01/01

Truly Dreadful Film

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Mjeteconer
1971/01/02

Just perfect...

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Marketic
1971/01/03

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

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StyleSk8r
1971/01/04

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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