Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach is ready for its closeup in ‘Anora’

Coney Island, in some ways, feels stuck in time. You know, the amusement park and everything around it feels like it hasn’t changed in decades. The Cyclone [wooden roller coaster] is almost 100 years old. I find it very cinematic, and I wanted to shoot it almost like postcard images that really take the landscape in. It was important for me to stay geographically accurate, you know, as the characters go on this tour through these three neighbourhoods of South Brooklyn: Coney Island,…