Little Fugitive
Summer at Sea
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1h 21m
Directed by Morris Engel | 81 mins | 1953
A pioneering influence on the French New Wave, this New York independent classic follows a seven-year-old boy through the hustle and bustle of Coney Island after he runs away from home, spooked by a cruel prank. It’s filmed with close-up immediacy thanks to Engel’s innovative camera (which Godard coveted), and doubles as a grand tour of faces and places in thriving postwar Brooklyn seen from a child’s awed POV.
Up Next in Summer at Sea
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Night Tide
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Suntan
Directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos | 100 mins | 2016
A frumpy doctor on a sun-kissed Greek isle falls for a nubile young beachgoer whom he treats, then descends down the rabbit hole of his seemingly hopeless crush. An unpredictable tragicomic look at the demands and disasters of sexual desire.
