From 2002 to 2003, director Matt Mahurin documented chef and cantankerous philosopher Kenny Shopsin in the final days of his eponymous eatery’s original location.

The resulting film, “I Like Killing Flies,” became a New York City cult classic, depicting Kenny, his wife Eve and their five kids as they made a new home for the local Bedford Street institution a few hundred feet away, on Carmine Street.

The film, which was unavailable for years due to licensing complications, but is finally streamable as of this summer, captured the Shopsin clan and their world of pre-gentrified, very-early-2000s Greenwich Village. Many neighbors were restaurant regulars or at least cared about Shopsin's and the social fabric of their community (and not pissing off Kenny) in a way that contrasts sharply with

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