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The Sunshine (2000)
Directed by Phil Bertelsen
Documentary · 30m
Portrait of the Sunshine Hotel, a flop house on the Bowery in New York's skid row. We meet Vic, the desk clerk, who paints watercolours and pastels; Jonesy, a janitor who talks about bedbugs; Bruce, a voluble alcoholic who makes runs for residents, picking up beer or sandwiches for them and sharing his philosophy with us; Vinnie, on methadone, caring for caged birds; Cashmere, a prostitute, the only woman at the hotel; Earl, who works downstairs in the Bowery's last factory, and Mike, the general manager, who talks about the changing face of the Bowery. The film concludes with tourists outside the Sunshine, hearing from Seth Kamil of Big Onion Walking Tours.
Crew
- Director
- Phil Bertelsen
- Director of Photography
- John Foster
- Original Music Composer
- Erin O'Hara, Jimi Zhivago
- Editor
- Bryan Gunnar Cole
- Producer
- Phil Bertelsen
Details
- Release date
- 2000-01-01
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America