内容摘要：“What I do gives me my strength and probably also my energy, because I speak for those who can no longer speak,” Friedländer said at an event at Berlin’s Jewish Museum in 2018.

“What I do gives me my strength and probably also my energy, because I speak for those who can no longer speak,” Friedländer said at an event at Berlin’s Jewish Museum in 2018.

Ergin Dogan, 29, gather sacks full of discarded carton and papers at Eminonu commercial district in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Ergin Dogan, 29, gather sacks full of discarded carton and papers at Eminonu commercial district in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The narrow cobblestone lanes of Eminonu, an area packed with bazaars and crowded restaurants, are the collectors’ main hunting grounds, where they blend into Istanbul’s bustle.Ergin Dogan, 29, says he has pulled his rickety cart through these streets since he was a boy. He remembers how his father struggled to make ends meet in their hometown of Nigde in central Turkey before the two came to Istanbul, Turkey’s biggest city, to try their luck here.A man pulls his cart with plastic bottles and discarded cartons at main Istiklal street in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

A man pulls his cart with plastic bottles and discarded cartons at main Istiklal street in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)But it hasn’t been easy.

“I left school at 13,” Dogan said. “We sleep in dilapidated buildings near Suleymaniye Mosque, with dirty blankets and no real shower.”

They work from early morning till late at night. When a metal bar broke on Dogan’s cart on one of his garbage runs, he stopped only briefly to duct tape it.In it, he describes being “so bewitched by them as a child that they make a big part of my films’ subconscious.” The documentary, directed by David Hinton and produced by Thelma Schoonmaker, isn’t just a chronicle of films like “The Red Shoes,” “Black Narcissus” and

but captures how movies can transfix you, change you and live alongside you as you grow older.— With many glued to screens for the election results Tuesday, it might be a good week to revisit some of the best films about American politics. Alan Pakula’s chilling assassination thriller “The Parallax View” is streaming on Paramount+. On Hoopla, you can find both John Frankenheimer’s mind control masterpiece “The Manchurian Candidate” and Elia Kazan’s prescient “A Face in the Crowd.” “Election,” Alexander Payne’s biting satire, is streaming on Fubo. Spike Lee’s towering “Malcolm X” is available to rent, as is Steven Spielberg’s epic “Lincoln.” But if you’re feeling more cynical, Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy” can be found on Hulu.

This combination of album cover images shows “The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban)” by Whitney Houston, left, and “Loud Is As” by Tsunami. (RCA Records/Numero Group via AP)This combination of album cover images shows “The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban)” by Whitney Houston, left, and “Loud Is As” by Tsunami. (RCA Records/Numero Group via AP)