News From Home - 1976 - 6/10

Young Chantal Akerman moved from Belgium to New York in 1971.
Pre-Internet, she received steady correspondence from family, especially nagging Mother.
Later, once back in Europe, she decided to return to New York, film locations, and read her mother’s letters.
Not quite a documentary, and many viewers have found this terribly slow.
My wife, a native New Yorker, was increasingly mesmerized. At one point she even commented, “That’s the garment district.”
Aging New Yorkers may appreciate, and I suspect it was intriguing to Europeans in the 1970’s.
A better time capsule of New York from that period might be Kojak.
Even earlier, N.Y.P.D. aired in the 60‘s and shows an even grittier Gotham.