Broadway by Light vs On the Impossibility of an Homage
On the Impossibility of an Homage has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.7/10 for Broadway by Light). Broadway by Light is the shorter watch at 11m compared with 19m. Broadway by Light is the older of the two (1958 against 2024). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Broadway by Light
On the Impossibility of an Homage| Broadway by Light | On the Impossibility of an Homage | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.7/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1958 | 2024 |
| Length | 11m | 19m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | Germany |
| Director | William Klein | Xandra Popescu |
| Main cast | – | Gabriela Durleci, Cristian Susu, Mirela Simniceanu, Ion Tugearu |
Synopsis
Broadway by Light
An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's Great White Way.
On the Impossibility of an Homage
Given a portrait, who is responsible for the image we see, the painter or the subject? Ion used to be a a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania. When we first discussed the possibility of a portrait, Ion was initially thrilled. He’d been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But during the filmmaking process Ion finds it hard to let go.
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