简介：Anyonewho'severwalkedthestreetsofNewYorkCitycanattesttotheculturalbountythatthrongsitssidewalksonadailybasis.Inhisultra-v閞it?documentaryBRAVENEWYORK,photographerandfilmmakerRichardSandler(THEGODSOFTIMESSQUARE)trainshislensonthecolorfulcharacterswhopopulatehisowncityneighborhood.WanderingaroundtheEastVillageandtheLowerEastSidewithcamerainhand,Sandlermarchesuptorandomstrangersandletsthemspeaktheirmindsinrefreshinglyhonestandunfilteredman-on-the-streetinterviews.Shotoveraperiodof12years,Sandler'sfootagealsocapturestheslowbutinexorablechangesthathavestolenovertheurbanmetropolisduringthattime,fromthegentrificationofformerlygrubbyzoneslikeTompkinsSquareParktothebracingtransformationsthatfollowedinthewakeof9/11.Simultaneouslygrittyandpoetic,Sandler'sBRAVENEWYORKisatonceacinematiclovelettertohishomecity,arousingodetodemocraticpopulism,andamournfulmeditationontheunrelentingwindsofchange.…