page_title: City News (film)
section_title: Theatrical and festival release, critical reception
hierarchical_section_title: City News (film) / Theatrical and festival release, critical reception
caption_attribution_description: English: "City News" theatrical, NYC, 1983
context_page_description: City News is an independent, American comedy film, written and directed by David Fishelson and Zoe Zinman in New York City in 1983, which was nationally broadcast on PBS in 1984, exhibited theatrically in the U.S. and Canada in 1983, and selected for 12 international film festivals in 1983-4.
context_section_description: City News was first reviewed at a private screening in December, 1982, by Variety critic Lawrence Cohn. Soon after the review's publication, the film was selected for the 1983 Film Festivals of Atlanta, Edinburgh, Houston, Munich, Florence, Athens, Santa Fe, Seattle, Vancouver, Dallas, Göteborg and Antwerp — winning "Best Dramatic Film" at Atlanta, "Best Low-Budget Feature" at Houston, and "Best Feature (Narrative)" at Athens. City News was then acquired for theatrical exhibition by Cinecom Pictures (which distributed the film to movie theaters in the U.S. and Canada), where it received positive reviews from Judith Crist and USA Today, and a mixed review in The New York Times. By 1989, City News had been curated for the permanent collection of the Museum of Television & Radio, as well as listed in the American Film Institute's Catalog of Feature Films.
caption: City News, theatrical opening, NYC, 1983
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