{"id":2406,"date":"2007-10-21T21:49:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T01:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:26:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:26:38","slug":"the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/10\/21\/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taking of Pelham One Two Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=AqOTObjWGH8[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Last night on TVO&#8217;s Saturday Night at the Movies &#8212; one of the best curated film lineups on TV complete with likely the finest archive of filmmaker interviews in the world &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Taking_of_Pelham_One_Two_Three_%28film%29\">The Taking of Pelham One Two Three<\/a> was shown. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1594\">mentioned here<\/a>  earlier this year in a post about films about subways. Pelham, the 1974 original, is a great and (one would hope) satirical look at New York of the &#8217;70s when it was nearly bankrupt, paranoid and every other person was a dirtbag or pervert.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the opposite of the upbeat <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1514\">Sesame Street subway song clip<\/a> from the same era we also posted here, though both have the same kind of run-down aesthetic that characterized so many depictions of that city then. I wonder how New York actually was during this period &#8212; the other dominant version of this period is the Annie Hall\/Jackie O uptown imagining of the city.<\/p>\n<p>As for Pelham,  add in some prolific New York swearing, a satirical sense of humour (the mayor is sort of bumbling and everybody is so crusty you can see the actual crust on them) and strange moments of racial and cultural awkwardness (the civil\/womens rights movements and Vietnam were still recent), it wasn&#8217;t the B-Movie I thought it was. See it if you can &#8212; or keep you eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvo.org\/snam\">SNAM<\/a> as they repeat movies when the season is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=AqOTObjWGH8[\/youtube] Last night on TVO&#8217;s Saturday Night at the Movies &#8212; one of the best curated film lineups on TV complete with likely the finest archive of filmmaker interviews in the world &#8212; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three was shown. 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