Wilson is programming a film festival at the Anthology Film Archives that runs through Tuesday.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Before landing his own HBO show, John Wilson built a cult-following with the online series “How To.” Now, after more than 10 years and three seasons on HBO, the documentarian of the bizarre, mundane and macabre in New York City is ending his series next week. He says HBO asked him if he wanted to make another season and he declined: He’s glad to be ending the show on a high note.
Kailath: I feel like even New Yorkers who really like movies might not know about Anthology, like it drops off the radar.I really like Anthology. It has a really rich history of experimental filmmakers and I wanted to just continue that lineage somehow by … maybe placing myself within it. [Laughs.] I thought it’d give me more experimental film cred.
And they can always fall back on the scavenger hunt list if they ever feel stuck. But there's usually enough street life to shoot that there's always something unexpected coming back to me at the end of the day. One of my favorite shots of the whole season was the very first shot in the restroom episode, of a man just laying down at the top of a set of subway stairs and the Empire State Building is perfectly framed in his crotch and it looks like an erection. I was just so in love with that shot.
The director’s a jerk, the producers he’s working with are really awful When I’m out directing the show I always think about this movie, and remind myself that I need to accept input from everyone around me and have a genuinely collaborative environmentYeah. So "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" is this documentary by this guy William Whyte, and it studies the way that public space is used. He focuses specifically on the Seagram Building here on 53rd & Park.
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