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Thursday, October 31, 2019

Shout-Out to the Extra: Report to the Commissioner Version

Shout-Out to the Extra is a sporadic series in which Cinema Romantico shouts out the extras, the background actors, the bit part players, the almost out of your sight line performers who expertly round out our movies with epic blink & you’ll miss it care.

1975’s “Report to the Commissioner”, as we shall see tomorrow, excels at 70s-era NYC location work, frequently seeming to just drop its actors into the midst of genuine street level hustle and bustle and covertly filming them interacting. Indeed, it excels so much at capturing this kind of unpremeditated authenticity that sometimes the extras, as you can see below, don’t even play along.


Pour one out for the extra.

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