Carmine Street Guitars

Ron Mann
Part of

56th New York Film Festival

September 28 - October 14, 2018

Ron Mann’s Carmine Street Guitars is a lovely portrait of a week in the life of luthier Rick Kelly’s eponymous ground floor shop.

DIRECTOR
Ron Mann
YEAR
2018
COUNTRY
Canada
RUNTIME
80 minutes

Screening with Dream of a City. Get tickets here.

Q&As with Ron Mann on October 6 (with subjects Rick Kelly and Cindy Hulej) & October 8

The vibe is always deep and the groove is always sweet in Ron Mann’s lovely portrait of a week in the life of luthier Rick Kelly’s eponymous ground floor shop. Here, with help from his 93-year-old mother (and bookkeeper) and young apprentice Cindy Hulej, Kelly builds new guitars out of “the bones of old New York,” i.e. timber discarded from storied spots like the Hotel Chelsea and McSorley’s. A few regular customers—including Lenny Kaye, Bill Frisell, Charlie Sexton, Marc Ribot, and the film’s “instigator,” Jim Jarmusch—drop in along the way for repairs or test runs of Rick’s newest models. Or just to hang out and be with the music.

Carmine Street Guitars
Carmine Street Guitars
Carmine Street Guitars

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