Elegy For a City: New York

After many visits to this beautiful city and finally settling down here to live, I have gotten a feel for the city and these are the films that I feel that capture the spirit of the city that I’ve experienced.

(b/w photography by David Bradford)

The city is constantly dying and being born again (for better or for worse), so these films are time capsules in way. SoHo no longer feels like the way it does in Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends, nor is the Bowery like...