![]() Low-riders were used by Bailey to great effect, "Those cars have a very magical feel I wanted them to kind of dance, to come alive and sparkle. Boulevard Nights has been blamed for associating low-riders with gangs and by the early 1980s, the Los Angeles police department closed the street to cruisers. In the 1970s Whittier Boulevard was one of the most popular cruise strips in Los Angeles for low-rider car owners. Most of the film takes place along and around Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles." Boulevard Nights for me was primarily an exercise in nighttime street photography. ![]() Then you're back to lighting for movies again. But as soon as you turn on one theatrical light, you overpower it all. When you're out on the street at night like that and you've got five or six different light sources coming in, you can use them and get an incredibly rich look. One is deep in the gang culture and involved in drugs, the other wants to get out of the gang and out of his neighborhood so he can open his own auto-repair shop and get married, but he finds it hard going.ĭirector Michael Pressman chose cinematographer John Bailey to create a sense of realism by utilizing locations for all but two days of shooting, "I shot a lot of things on the streets of East Los Angeles where the key lights were practical lights such as store front windows and neons. With the tagline "Everything happens on the boulevard.and the boulevard happens at night," Boulevard Nights (1979), one of the first films released by a major studio (Warner Bros.) to feature an all-Latino cast, tells the story of two young Latino men in East Los Angeles.
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