Death to the Anti-Cruise
Added 8/3/2009
Wow. I just am watching this fantastic documentary of a guy that talks of "the cruise" and then "the anti-cruise" and in his way shows us how he understands his New York, his experiences, his movement through time and space. He says he is sincere, real, in the present. He clearly is creative, over charged with thought on his feelings, constantly in the now in experiences, he's processing his parents, his pain, his joy, his observations to a camera as witness. This is the documentary- his running talking while moving through New York telling, teaching, philosophizing, channeling and meandering cruising it all. And we sit. And back we go to the tour bus, it's his work where he says he just wanted to pick up girls "on their time", because he is the talking tour bus guide as speaker. I love the part with the description of a New York City nervous breakdown. And one part where in the middle of holding forth on criminal justice and the anti-cruise, on the cockroach that keep moving, he points out the new Anne Taylor store. It captured me entirely on my movie marathon day standing alone as he winds up and through the spaces looking as I so often liked to do up at these monolithic skyforms. He calls this cruising. Dedicated to creation and destruction he says, turmoil and glory. There he lives, he says, in fleeting. He says he is dedicated to, "I don't know." I couldn't say it better I don't know how else to sum the film up. It's a beautiful black and white piece.
If you want a truly interesting "cruise" through New York you need to watch this soliloquy. I've grown a bit neurotic in the watching, processed too much language, exhausted a part of my mind, but it was interesting and completely fascinating to walk with him. I'm thinking this movie really is not for quite a few, and would be loved by the New Yorkers I know, or knew at one time in our lives.
A documentary as love story by someone quite extraordinarily spun into his cruise.
I would love for him to have what he needs, just to keep on keepin on.
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Life Changing
Added 10/30/2008
This documentary is one of the most life changing snapshots into another souls view of existence you may ever see. I do not write reviews, I speak rarely if ever, about artistic works I have read or seen that have altered my perception of the world. Yet I feel compelled to say that I watch this documentary weekly. I watch snippets of this work when I feel misunderstood or generally hopeless. I am not sure if Levitch is insane or brilliant or some measure of both, and I think this is the very thing that intrigues me. I wonder about that mix in all of us. Levitch is more "awake" than most of us, he does not walk his path in a daze, he senses and ponders all of it...the beautiful, wondrous moments of life he sees through his beloved New York City, and in contrast those moments most of us would never admit to, those moments from childhood when we were humiliated and we STILL recall the shame and anger...the city embodies it all. If you cannot stomach an "Intense" ride this "cruise" is not for you. If you aspire to wake up, to sense, to dream, to despair to realize the dichotomy of your own existence as you go about your own "cruise" I advise you to watch.
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Take a ride on Speeds Bus and prepare to be taken on a journey of the mind
Added 7/6/2008
I learned about this film while a member of a film club that met once a month. On this day the director Bennett Miller was present to answer questions after the movie. Back then he was just a humble young New York Director who put every cent he had into this Docu-Movie. I was in love with Speed from the start. After I got past his somewhat annoying voice, I realized it was a voice of intelligent reason and spiritual prose. Speed was a dictionary of sorts and a sensitive brilliant man with hopes and dreams to be understood, primarily by his own family, and secondary by those he came into contact with on his tours. I often related to his lonely journey, and respected his zest for life given his many shortcomings.
Bennett has since moved on and up in the film world and was nominated for an Academy Award. Timothy went on to do another documentary about 9-11. I have yet to see it but have it on my list as a priority.
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Very entertaining...pre 9/11 NYC
Added 2/16/2008
The very intelligent, witty and verbose Timothy Levitch makes a tour of pre 9/11 NYC most memorable.
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Go on safari in NYC
Added 8/1/2007
This movie will take you on a wild journey through NYC. Filled with interesting perspectives and trivia. Speed really adds a human element to the city personifying everything he passes giving the city depth. You will never see NYC the same way again.
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Death to the Anti-Cruise
Added 8/3/2009
Wow. I just am watching this fantastic documentary of a guy that talks of "the cruise" and then "the anti-cruise" and in his way shows us how he understands his New York, his experiences, his movement through time and space. He says he is sincere, real, in the present. He clearly is creative, over charged with thought on his feelings, constantly in the now in experiences, he's processing his parents, his pain, his joy, his observations to a camera as witness. This is the documentary- his running talking while moving through New York telling, teaching, philosophizing, channeling and meandering cruising it all. And we sit. And back we go to the tour bus, it's his work where he says he just wanted to pick up girls "on their time", because he is the talking tour bus guide as speaker. I love the part with the description of a New York City nervous breakdown. And one part where in the middle of holding forth on criminal justice and the anti-cruise, on the cockroach that keep moving, he points out the new Anne Taylor store. It captured me entirely on my movie marathon day standing alone as he winds up and through the spaces looking as I so often liked to do up at these monolithic skyforms. He calls this cruising. Dedicated to creation and destruction he says, turmoil and glory. There he lives, he says, in fleeting. He says he is dedicated to, "I don't know." I couldn't say it better I don't know how else to sum the film up. It's a beautiful black and white piece.
If you want a truly interesting "cruise" through New York you need to watch this soliloquy. I've grown a bit neurotic in the watching, processed too much language, exhausted a part of my mind, but it was interesting and completely fascinating to walk with him. I'm thinking this movie really is not for quite a few, and would be loved by the New Yorkers I know, or knew at one time in our lives.
A documentary as love story by someone quite extraordinarily spun into his cruise.
I would love for him to have what he needs, just to keep on keepin on.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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Life Changing
Added 10/30/2008
This documentary is one of the most life changing snapshots into another souls view of existence you may ever see. I do not write reviews, I speak rarely if ever, about artistic works I have read or seen that have altered my perception of the world. Yet I feel compelled to say that I watch this documentary weekly. I watch snippets of this work when I feel misunderstood or generally hopeless. I am not sure if Levitch is insane or brilliant or some measure of both, and I think this is the very thing that intrigues me. I wonder about that mix in all of us. Levitch is more "awake" than most of us, he does not walk his path in a daze, he senses and ponders all of it...the beautiful, wondrous moments of life he sees through his beloved New York City, and in contrast those moments most of us would never admit to, those moments from childhood when we were humiliated and we STILL recall the shame and anger...the city embodies it all. If you cannot stomach an "Intense" ride this "cruise" is not for you. If you aspire to wake up, to sense, to dream, to despair to realize the dichotomy of your own existence as you go about your own "cruise" I advise you to watch.
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Take a ride on Speeds Bus and prepare to be taken on a journey of the mind
Added 7/6/2008
I learned about this film while a member of a film club that met once a month. On this day the director Bennett Miller was present to answer questions after the movie. Back then he was just a humble young New York Director who put every cent he had into this Docu-Movie. I was in love with Speed from the start. After I got past his somewhat annoying voice, I realized it was a voice of intelligent reason and spiritual prose. Speed was a dictionary of sorts and a sensitive brilliant man with hopes and dreams to be understood, primarily by his own family, and secondary by those he came into contact with on his tours. I often related to his lonely journey, and respected his zest for life given his many shortcomings.
Bennett has since moved on and up in the film world and was nominated for an Academy Award. Timothy went on to do another documentary about 9-11. I have yet to see it but have it on my list as a priority.
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