City News (PBS film)

City News is an independent, American comedy film, written and directed by David Fishelson and Zoe Zinman in New York City in 1983, which was nationally broadcast on PBS in 1984, exhibited theatrically in the U.S. and Canada in 1983, and selected forinternational film festivals winning atin 19834.

The style of City News owes a debt to various pop culture sources, including the cartooning of R. Crumb, Harvey Pekar, 1950s film noir narration, and the use of silhouettes to make the films reality look more cartoonlike. Several sequences are modeled on early1980s MTV music videos, including a seduction scene that unfolds during the playing of an arcade driving game, and an automobile wreck that intercuts live footage with comic strip imagery of the accident.City News was first reviewed at a private screening in December, 1982, by Variety critic Lawrence Cohn. Soon after the reviews publication, the film was selected for the 1983 Film Festivals of Atlanta, Edinburgh, Houston, Munich, Florence, Athens, Santa Fe, Seattle, Vancouver, Dallas, Gteborg and Antwerp winning Best Dramatic Film at Atlanta, Best LowBudget Feature at Houston, and Best Feature Narrative at Athens. City News was then acquired for theatrical exhibition by Cinecom Pictures which distributed the film to movie theaters in the U.S. and Canada, where it received positive reviews from Judith Crist and USA Today, and a mixed review in The New York Times. By 1989, City News had been curated for the permanent collection of the Museum of Television amp Radio, as well as listed in the American Film Institutes Catalog of Feature Films. ........

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