I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Arrival in the Bronx is shown with a view from an elevated train as it enters the city. Then follows a montage of sights from the Bronx. Many typical neighborhood activities are shown, along with scenes from many local businesses.It's very striking that this was filmed during the Depression, with all the signs in store windows encouraging people to shop now that prices are lower, or they are going out of business. There was at least one "fire sale" (a term I had no idea was in common use). This makes the film something of an important historical document.But also, with so many clever angles and a focus on things that the average person may not even think to capture, the film is ahead of its time. A documentary, but also a work of art. I'm sure someone has carefully studied this film, trying to identify the businesses and maybe even the people.

"A Bronx Morning" is pretty much exactly what the title says: 11 minutes of scenes from the Bronx. It is a silent movie, don't be fooled by soundtracks added later, and in black-and-white. It was directed by Jay Leyda 85 years ago and I see he was still extremely young when he made this film and was not too prolific afterward anymore. I read that he also succeeded as a poet and as a photographer, so maybe this was his preferred career choice. As for his work here, I believe this will only appeal to people who either live in the Bronx themselves or just have a very special connection to the city of New York. Everybody else can certainly skip this little movie. Not bad by any means, but not a good watch for anybody either who doesn't really care about the subject of this documentary. I do not recommend watching it, even if the National Film Registry apparently thinks different.

Jay Leyda decided to pay tribute to the New York borough of the Bronx in this short film. Instead of focusing on skyscrapers and the spectacular, it focuses on more mundane things. Taken from what appears to have been public transportation, his camera zips by various tenements and landmarks. Then, it suddenly slows to show the people--shopping, walking and going about their lives. While I am pretty sure this will bore a lot of people, the film is worth preserving for two obvious reasons. First, the camera-work is quite nice--and it's not just like a travelogue. His choices of what to show and how to focus was often rather artistic--even when it was VERY mundane. Second, think of the history you are seeing. Hollywood films never show this sort of stuff and their view of New York was almost exclusively a sanitized image of Manhattan. Worth a look.

On the surface, "A Bronx Morning" is just that -- a morning in the Bronx.On the other hand, it's an avant garde look at street life in the NYC borough. The filmmaker is less concerned with the identities of the people going about their daily business as much as he is with what people are doing (jumping rope, rocking a baby carriage).Anyone curious as to how the Bronx looked in the early 1930s should definitely check this one out.The short runs 11 minutes in length and should be available on DVD at this point.Worth looking into.