The Read
Lean shot it in a working station during blackout conditions, and the restraint everyone praises was partly a production constraint. Celia Johnson does the whole film in voiceover and the device never turns sentimental. Rachmaninoff does the rest.
The Venue
Metrograph
7 Ludlow St
A two-screen cinema that opened on Ludlow Street in 2016 around rare archival prints and premieres, with a restaurant modeled on the commissaries of the old Hollywood studios.
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Shape The Day
Before
Mei Lai WahA Chinatown bakery and coffee counter opened in 1968 by Mr and Mrs Chan, who had come from Taishan. After more than fifty years on Bayard Street it moved to a larger space at 41 Mott. A roast pork bun and a cup of coffee is what people go in for.
12:00 PM · Brief Encounter
After
169 BarA bar at 169 East Broadway that opened in 1916 and was known for years as the Bloody Bucket. A leopard-print pool table sits under the neon and the sound system stays on seventies funk. It opens at two in the afternoon and runs until four in the morning.