About 15 minutes into the neorealist jewel “Prince of Broadway”, I made a mental note that the film had the same gritty verisimilitude as “Take Out”. This was no coincidence as I would soon discover that Sean Baker wrote and directed both films. For my money, Baker is the finest young filmmaker in the world of independent film today. He has a vision of real-life New Yorkers struggling at the margins of the economy worthy of a movie. To choose this noncommercial path, and to do so successfully, requires a stubborn commitment to one’s principles. In a film industry that largely caters to the worst prejudices of a dumbed down marketplace, this takes a lot of guts. Baker has both the guts and the talent to pull it off.
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