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| Island Pictures | Release Date: January 1, 1990 |
Starring:
Angel Cappellino, Charles Lane, Edwin Anthony, Jeff Bates, Jeffrey Carpentier, Jimmy Clohessy, Michael Baskin, Nicole Alysia, Tom Alpern, Vince Castelano
Summary:
Nearly silent comedy filmed in black and white follows a street artist (Charles Lane), who rescues a baby after her father was murdered. The artist then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to care for the child. Ultimately he ends up in a horse drawn chase of the murderers.
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Lane’s conceit is handled with such unassuming sweetness and charm that it never comes across as presumptuous or pretentious, and the simple authority of his conclusion–which uses dialogue in order to point out what most of us refuse to hear when we’re walking down the street–is unimpeachable.
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Lane does know how to photograph his own interesting, large-eyed face to potent effect. He's an appealing talent, and Sidewalk Stories is a likable film. Beyond novelty value, it also finds modern ways of making contact with the very real feel for poverty that was so much a part of the early Chaplin films. [21 Sep 1989, p.60]
Sidewalk Stories is a comedy of forgotten pleasures. It harkens back to the purest form of cinema to silently record what passes for society today. [16 Feb 1990, p.11]
Chaplin's pathos was (at its best) touched with irony. Lane's isn't. [19 Jan 1990, p.68]
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