Lightning Over Braddock
Screening on Film
Directed by Tony Buba.
US, 1988, 16mm, color, 80 min.
US, 1988, 16mm, color, 80 min.
There are few legendary "cult" documentaries, but this is one of them, a charming, hilariously ironic, piece of Americana to set alongside Ross McElwee’s Sherman’s March. The filmmaker, Tony Buba, plays himself as a director trying to make a movie with a crazy street hustler named Sal. The setting is Buba’s incredibly ill-luck home town, Braddock, Pennsylvania, which once flourished as "Pittsburgh’s shopping center."
