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Manhattan by Numbers, dir. Amir Naderi, USA 1993, 85 min.
Book tickets
A laid-off newspaperman has 24 hours to come up with the back rent he owes. Desperately looking for an old friend who may be able to help him, his search begins to take on a different meaning when he discovers his friend has seemingly disappeared.
"The surprising thing about the first English-language feature of Iranian filmmaker Amir Naderi is that it has nothing at all to do with Iran or Iranians. [...] It’s a realistic, keenly felt, and richly detailed movie about American urban life in the mid-90s, but what’s most striking about it is its power as poetry, as it delineates a landscape and the precise contours of a state of mind. This is a potent example of what Hollywood, which can’t seem to make movies about the world we’re living in, is studiously avoiding."
– Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
This screening will be introduced by artist and curator Shaghayegh Raoufi.
"The surprising thing about the first English-language feature of Iranian filmmaker Amir Naderi is that it has nothing at all to do with Iran or Iranians. [...] It’s a realistic, keenly felt, and richly detailed movie about American urban life in the mid-90s, but what’s most striking about it is its power as poetry, as it delineates a landscape and the precise contours of a state of mind. This is a potent example of what Hollywood, which can’t seem to make movies about the world we’re living in, is studiously avoiding."
– Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
This screening will be introduced by artist and curator Shaghayegh Raoufi.
Book tickets
08:00 pm
Sun, 02 Feb 2025
Cinema 1
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