I love the opening scenes of the 1995 “Smoke” by film makers Wayne Wang and Paul Auster. Among others, the movie features Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Stockard Channing, Harold Perrineau Jr., and very young Forest Whitaker.
The story begins as a local business owner is closing shop for the day, when a regular askes if he can open up for one more purchase. A conversation ensues about photography revealing the shop owners life’s work of chronicling his corner of the world, at the same time and same place every day.
Take a look, see what you think. Do you have favorite movies about place and a person or a community’s relationship to their place?
Peace, dwight
“It’s My Corner After All”
