
'Foreign Parts' portrays a hidden enclave of automobile shops and junk-yards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes this vibrant community of immigrants - where wrecks, refuse, and recycling form a thriving commerce - as it struggles for daily survival and contests New York City's development scheme.... (Full plot summary below)
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'Foreign Parts' portrays a hidden enclave of automobile shops and junk-yards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes this vibrant community of immigrants - where wrecks, refuse, and recycling form a thriving commerce - as it struggles for daily survival and contests New York City's development scheme.
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| Cinema ScopeRobert Koehler... a work of salvage anthropology that never insists on any particular kind of political stance until after the full reality of what they've recorded and subsequently edited has settled in. |
| User ReviewCody CObservational and extremely slow-paced in nature. These few blocks abutting Flushing's Citi Field are a gritty & neglected bazaar of auto chop shops and auto parts vendors, yet they're no denying they provide the city with a valuable service. It was interesting to see close up who the unusual people are that make up the backbone of this type of neighborhood & work. Even more interesting to see that it is endeared by some, enough to try to halt the City's plan to raze it, in order to beautify the view from Citi Field. Eighty minutes was a bit too long of a view, however, and it is pure observation, no narration, no plotline, no conclusion. Worth watching if you think it might interest you, but keep your thumb on the fast forward button. |