THE FILMS OF LIONEL ROGOSIN (1956-1966)
complete 2-disc set
 
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DVD Studio: Milestone
DVD Release Date: February 21, 2012

Director: Lionel Rogosin

Description
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For Lionel Rogosin, the weapon of choice was a movie camera, and his 
first battle was waged on the streets of New York City. Exploring the 
underworld of the city's skid row, Rogosin developed his signature 
style. After months of drinking with men he met on the Bowery, 
Rogosin worked with his buddies to write a screenplay that reflected 
their lives-and then cast them as themselves. This technique of 
making films "from the inside" allowed Rogosin to film ordinary 
people caught up in universal problems. His films explored 
alcoholism, homelessness, racial discrimination, war, labor conflict, 
and poverty with great compassion and honesty. On the Bowery 
chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer, a part-time 
railroad worker adrift on New York's skid row.
When the film opened it 1956, it exploded on the screen, burning away 
years of Hollywood artifice, jump-starting the post-war American 
independent film movement and earning an Oscar nomination.
GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES was Rogosin's powerful response to 
militarism and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve 
countries, amassing footage of war atrocities from national archives. 
He then interspersed these harrowing images with scenes of a London 
cocktail party's inane chatter. Good Times, Wonderful Times, released 
at the height of the Vietnam conflict, became one of the great 
antiwar films of the era.

Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 6.75 + 7.71 Gb -- Exact Untouched Copy
Runtime (total): 257 minutes
Type: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound (main feature): English DD2.0
Subtitles: none

Set Features
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Disc One: Good Times, Wonderful Times
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# Out (25:37): Rogosin's documentary short, produced for the United 
Nations, depicting the plight of refugees fleeing the Soviet 
repression of the Hungarian uprising in 1956.
# Man's Peril: The Making of Good Times, Wonderful Times (24:17). 
# Credits.

Disc Two: On the Bowery
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# Introduction by Martin Scorsese (3:11).
# Street of Forgotten Men (1933) (2:28): A Depression-era newsreel 
short, complete with sensationalistic narration whose tone and style 
are the polar opposite of Rogosin's approach.
# Bowery Men's Shelter (1972) (10:34): A portrait of the New York 
City Men's Shelter and its inhabitants, made as the City was heading 
toward economic collapse.
# The Perfect Team (2009) (46:33): This documentary by Rogosin's son, 
Michael, provides a comprehensive account of the making of On the 
Bowery and its reception, using contemporary sources.
# A Walk Through the Bowery (2009) (11:05): Produced and directed by 
Michael Rogosin, this documentary short contrasts the Bowery today 
with images from On the Bowery.
# On the Bowery Theatrical Trailer (2010) (2:13).
# Credits.