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Article: Rediscovering radical film style: an interview with David Riker.(documentary filmmaker)(Interview)
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- Cineaste
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- March 22, 1999
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La Ciudad (The City), a black-and-white, Spanish-language film made with nonprofessional actors in the Hispanic neighborhoods of New York City, became one of the surprise critical successes of last fall's Toronto International Film Festival. Its writer-director, David Riker, a photographer and documentary filmmaker in his mid-thirties, who is not Hispanic, began the project in NYU graduate film school and expanded it over five years into a first fiction feature, made with the participation of the communities which are its subject. Amid the flashy visuals and trendy affluent angst of many American independent debuts, La Ciudad stands out as simultaneously traditional and ...
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Article: Reel life in 'La Ciudad' has its ups and downs; ...
The Boston Herald;
March 23, 2000 ;
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... ... There's no shortage of humanism or craftsmanship in "La Ciudad" ("The City"), four stories about Hispanic immigrants. There is, however, little element of surprise. David Riker, its Boston-born, Belgium-raised and Tufts-educated ...
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