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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Flaherty’s Manhattan study, it turns modern urban labour, machinery, movement and architecture into exhilarating visual rhythm, using a boldly observational yet highly shaped silent-film language.
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A near-contemporary city symphony that finds grandeur in a metropolis waking, working and surging through the day; its montage makes streets, transport and crowds feel monumental.
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Why this pick
Its compact, alert portrait of a city shares Flaherty’s fascination with place and public life, but adds a playful, incisive eye for the social contrasts revealed by urban spectacle.
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Why this pick
This Paris city portrait observes workers, passersby and changing streets across a day, matching the original’s poetic attention to the physical pulse beneath metropolitan grandeur.
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For the same sense of awe at cities as vast engineered organisms, this wordless visual poem magnifies construction, traffic and skyscrapers through time-lapse, music and monumental composition.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1626, Dutch traders bought Manhattan for $24 of beads and gift product. Within 30 years, there were 1,000 residents, and 300 years later, there were 8 million. This film celebrates the muscle, size, and majesty of Manhattan, starting at the river's edge where a huge-jawed steam shovel dredges. It's on to an ocean liner, then to a hole in the ground where men swing pickaxes, sledgehammers, and shovels. The camera then slowly examines a stately building by the shore. Behind and beside it is the city.
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