Out Takes

23 Feb 2017

Winter at Westbeth and the NYC Art Scene

Arts, TV & Film

WINTER AT WESTBETH is the profoundly humane new documentary from Rohan Spong. It celebrates the lives of three artists living in New York.

It also served as inspiration for this Out Takes special as we looked at queer films that celebrate the New York arts scene, and the artists who comprise it: think documentaries like MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES, biopics like BASQUIAT, and hollywood dramas like RENT and HEIGHTS.

With so many films celebrating the New York arts scene we’re spoilt for choice! So we called in Rohan Spong, the director of WINTER AT WESTBETH, to help us make sense of what it is is that makes the New York arts scene so ripe for cinematic representation.

Essential Viewing: Winter at Westbeth (2015, Dir Rohan Spong)

Hungry for More: Rent (2005, Dir Chris Columbus)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 49:50 — 45.6MB)

Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Blubrry | Podchaser | Email | Deezer | RSS

30 Apr 2024

‘Swift Street’ and ‘The Sweet East’ with special guests Bernie Van Tiel and Nick Pinkerton

TV & Film

For this Out Takes, we took a look at two very different projects that highlighted our interest in independent cinemas ...

23 Apr 2024

Challengers

TV & Film

As the heading states, this program was all about 'Challengers', the latest film from Luca Guadagnino (two times Out Takes ...

16 Apr 2024

Heartbreak High season 2

TV & Film

For this Out Takes, we’re heading back to high school with the cool kids from Hartley High to look at ...