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BAM is holding a throwback subway film series

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Warriorssssss…don’t miss your trainnnnn Ever catch your friends complaining about how the subways have no character anymore? First of all, remind them that riders are now just as terrified of picking up bedbugs as they were of being mugged back in the day, which has to count for something. Second, direct them to BAM’s “Retro Metro” film series starting in late September, which will trace the history of the subway system in film, from the 30s to the 90s. Opening the series? The Warriors! According to a press release, “Retro Metro” will run from September 26 until October 5, with one or two old movies that spend some screen time on the old subway running each day at BAM. The films stretch back as far as 1928 with Speedy (October 3), a movie about a horse-drawn carriage driver trying to save the city’s embattled horse drawn carriage from the encroaching threat of mass transit (that’ll… Read More

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