Lionel Rogosin followed a handful of alcoholics on New York's skid row in his landmark 1956 film. This is no relic. Now restored, it still compels."On the Bowery" may be more than half a century old, but it is no relic. This landmark documentary disturbs and compels as much today in a new 35mm restoration as it did when it opened in 1956 to both criticism and acclaim.