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A sense of place: an interview with Ramin Bahrani.(Interview)

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg once dismissed Willets Point, a chaotic aggregation of junk heaps, garages, and vacant lots in Queens adjacent to Shea Stadium, as "another euphemism for urban blight." For Ramin Bahrani, an Iranian-American filmmaker born in the United States and educated at Columbia University, Willets Point (sometimes referred to as the "Iron Triangle") is more than a mere eyesore on the city's landscape. Inspired by the dizzying contradictions of a New York backdrop that must seem alien indeed to viewers weaned on the upscale locations favored by Woody Allen and his cinematic brethren, Bahrani's second feature, Chop Shop ...

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