The Gods of Times Square
thoroughly delightul cinema verite ""streeter", excellent camera work, composition and editing a must see, also very funny and compassionate work
Richard Sandler
Filmography
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Subway to the Former East Village
Richard Sandler’s gritty city symphony takes stock of New York’s Lower East Side with a decade’s worth of moments and encounters that would otherwise be lost to history. Working against gentrification’s erasures, he catalogues the neighborhood’s changes in their particularity:...Watch Movie
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Brave New York
BRAVE NEW YORK is a free-form documentary that loosely chronicles the last twelve years of intense change in the East Village "hood." From the reopening of a newly curfewed Tompkins Square Park and Wigstock in '92 to the destruction of the cherished Loisaida Community Gardens, beyond the yuppie...Watch Movie
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The Gods of Times Square
THE GODS OF TIMES SQUARE was shot over a six year period that witnessed a radical transformation of Times Square. Gone now are the mom and pop stores, squeezed out by a real estate gold rush. Gone too are the colorful characters who made Times Square a "speaker's corner." Only...Watch Movie
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The Gods of Times Squared
Here are more of the mesmerizing encounters with prophets and pilgrims that made Richard Sandler’s THE GODS OF TIME SQUARE such a memorable document of Times Square spiritualism. Sandler lets his camera run to attempt to grasp his subjects’ complex thought processes, though...Watch Movie
Recent Reviews
Brave New York
This is the purest form of documentary for me: just montage that just threads together with rhythm and occasional repeated motifs such as the moon, drifting music, and repeated personages....
Brave New York
Important glimpse of "old, last legs of LES" and during Sep 11 but perhaps a little too heavy on the street poetry at times while not explaining what was changing...
The Gods of Times Square
Splendid slice of NYC recent history. Thank you, Jesus, if you're out there, for creating these charismatic people and this terrific film.
Subway to the Former East Village
A postcard I wish had not needed to be sent. Alas, Sandler does. And it's gratefully received by this viewer. May you again let the freak flag fly, East Village.