Peter Emanuel Goldman’s Pestilent City
tructurally ambiguous and romantically rancid, Peter Emanuel Goldman’s 1965 is a 15-minute, high-contrast black-and-white New York City scherzo of sleaze, dereliction, working stiffs, stumblebums, loitering, malingering, playing, and passing out, filmed in Times Square and along the Deuce during the area’s deleterious decline, halfway between (1957) and (1976). It sticks in your head and beads on your skin the way did the first time
