#OTD 1986: What, this old thing? The late Leigh Bowery showed-off some of his avant-garde ensembles on The Clothes Show. | BBC Archive

Evening viewing recommendation? Lionel Rogosin's ON THE BOWERY (1956), now playing in our #NewYorkStories series! 🏙️ 🎥 https://www.criterionchannel.com/on-the-bowery Rogosin’s landmark of American neorealism chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer, a part-time railroad worker adrift on New York’s skid row, the Bowery. When the film first opened in 1956, it exploded onto the screen, burning away years of Hollywood artifice, jump-starting America’s postwar independent-film scene