Shots From the Canon #13: ‘Streetwise’ (Martin Bell, 1984)

Written by Robert Greene

Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction. In this entry, he looks at Streetwise.

Before the first Harmony Korine/Larry Clark provocation or the phrase “poverty porn” or the unrelenting stream of issue-mentaries that transform life into talking points, a film called Streetwise could …