Tag: By Patrick Burns

Rec Room: Patrick Burns: On the Bowery

December 2010
  On the Bowery does a piercing job of making the audience feel the misery of street life in nineteen fifties New York. Though the dehumanizing effects of homeless and poverty are no longer seen as frequently on today’s Bowery, the film still reminds us of all those who are left behind.

Rec Room: Patrick Burns: Life During Wartime

September 2010

Todd Solondz’s deadpan satire in Life During Wartime forces us to laugh, then shames us for doing so.