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If people lose their housing, the downward spiral is extremely fast and to rehabilitate and fix the problem a year or two years or 10 years later what it costs us as a community is enormous. There is money available if you can’t make your rent, a city agency that helps you get through a couple months. There’s a wonderful program in New York that is very successful. Is that the cheapest way of doing it? Absolutely. you can start building the life that you want, to be successful on your terms. strategies that are taught to you by very patient people over and over again. Housing, a room that is yours, a letter box with your name on it…that starts to reintegrate the personality so that you become effective in the world again. It’s not one size fits all, and we have to have strategies that fit all kinds of different people.

There are all kinds of people in a shelter. If Richard Gere can stand on the street corner and be treated like garbage… it is a profound lesson for me personally but I think it is for the audience as well. We go primarily with what we see but our senses lie to us continuously because we are living in an echo chamber of our minds and prejudices. It was a profound existential moment about how completely surfaced our experience of each other is. Because I was this character, people decided that I was a homeless guy, and didn’t look any further. Goodbar (1977), followed by a leading role in Terrence Malick‘s Days.

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With the camera that far away there was a certain freedom. Born in 1949, Gere kicked off his movie career with a memorable supporting turn in Richard Brooks‘ Looking for Mr. The two prime lenses were very long telephoto lenses and zooms, and the footprint of the filmmaking was from very far away. We created the type of situations where we would all feel what’s going on without being told by language, by music, what kind of emotions we’re supposed to feel, but just by being in the moment with this guy in the real world. I didn’t construct an elaborate history of this person. We identified as someone who is one of us, who’s in our world, our community, our family.

I think we told a story that honors the people who have been living on the street for whatever reason (…) and humanized the situation to the point where we identified a much deeper level than them as a homeless person. Culhane of the University of Pennsylvania. The special fund in honor of Pope Francis' 2015 visit to Philadelphia will help people in the region who are struggling with hunger, homelessness, and poverty.Īcross the street at the Ritz East, the actor was joined for a panel on homelessness by the writer and director of the film, Oren Moverman, Sister Mary Scullion of Project HOME, and Dennis P. Actor Richard Gere visited Philadelphia yesterday to attend a red carpet screening of his new movie “Time Out of Mind,” in which he plays a homeless man in New York City.īefore the screening, Gere attended a VIP fundraising reception for the Francis Fund at City Tavern in Old City.

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