The Gods of Times Square at Monkeytown

By complete accident I got to watch "The Gods of Times Square" by Richard Sandler at Monkeytown in Williamsburg last night. Man, this movie is quite amazing: more transfixing reality that I have seen in years. A piece that every New Yorker should see, disturbing, scary and somehow very familiar if you live in this city. The whole movie is online at http://www.timessquare.com/movies/gods/

Says Richard Sandler, the filmmaker, "The Gods of Times Square is a documentary about a rich culture of religionists who are drawn to the electric buzz of this fabled human meeting ground. There, at the 'crossroads of the world', amidst it's cathedral-like spires, we arrive to profess the creeds of wildly differing varieties of personal religious experience. I am a New Yorker who loves Times Squares' diversity and grew up in the poolrooms, sideshows and arcades of the early sixties."