For some twenty years Mars Bar, on the corner of First Street and

Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for

beer and tequila whenever we had to take a break from our work at

Anthology Film Archives, and it was also a bar where most of those who

came to see movies at Anthology ended up after the shows. We always

had a great time at Mars Bar. It was always open, there was always the

juke box, and very often there was no electricity, and it was old and

messy and it didn't want to be any other way — it was the last escape

place left downtown New York. So this is my love letter to it, to my

Mars Bar. Mars Bar as I knew it.