Through the magic of montage, the city symphonist Manfred Kirchheimer (“Stations of the Elevated”) brings fresh life to sights and sounds that New Yorkers have often taken for granted. At 89, he has a new movie, “Free Time,” that further assembles footage he shot with Walter Hess, a friend, from 1958 to 1960. (Their trove also served as the basis of three Kirchheimer shorts over the years, beginning in 1968.) Children play stickball, feign sword fights and write on the streets with chalk. Adults wash windows, work at construction sites and sit in lawn chairs.

Source: New York Times November 11, 2020 12:00 UTC