You Asked For It: NYC Movies

The Warriors.

I'll second Midnight Cowboy, and raise you The Incident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incident_%28film%29 ... so uplifting!

I'll second Midnight Cowboy, and raise you The Incident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incident_%28film%29 ... so uplifting!

All Woody Allen films. Manhattan, Annie Hall ....................

Bad Lieutenant

Desperately Seeking Susan. Sid & Nancy. Moonstruck. (i am such an 80's child i know)

french connection...taking of pelham 123 (both versions)...serpico

oh, i now need to rewatch Moonstruck - "Do you love him, Loretta?!"

All About Eve, and to a lesser extent, Bullets over Broadway

ummm, The Muppets Take Manhattan! A classic.

I do so love all about eve and midnight cowboy. but there is no forgetting snake. escape from new york.

taxi driver. pope of Greenwich village. after hours

Just Another Girl on The IRT...Movie was so-so (good but very sad) but the title is perpetual platinum.

By the way, the recently released "Brooklyn's Finest" is probably the latest addition to the category. Unfortunately, the newest is hardly the best. I couldn't resist a cop and gangsta' drama with that title but I would have been infinitely happier if I had waited to see it for $5 on PPV or nothing on HBO. It may just be that "The Wire" has forever spoiled me for realistic urban drama (interestingly some critics have said the same thing) but how many stereotypes can you fit into one picture?

Let's not forget Fail Safe. I still cry....

Staying Alive - for the Bay Ridge (I think) waterfront.
Barefoot in the Park - for the interiors, don't tell me if it's a set in LA.
Do the Right Thing, Summer of Sam

liz - is The Wire good? Hubby wants me to watch it with him, says i'll like it. Season 1 is sitting on our dining room table. Lived in Baltimore for grad school. LOVE that city!!!

Marathon man

I'm the wrong person to ask about The Wire...I'm mildly, moderately possibly completely obsessed with it. Own all five season. Have read books dedicated to it. If the ever have "Wire" conventions I'll be the geek showing up. But yes...I think its simply the best TV show ever. Definitely watch it, but don't expect "Little House in The Ghetto" or even "Law and Order" . There are no happy endings, there is a dark side to everything, and some humanity in the worst of the darkness.

on a clear day you can see forever. ghostbusters

Superfly, in fact many of the 70s blaxplotation films were set in NYC.

The New York Experience.

just kidding

Wall Street!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Working Girl!!!!!!!

Serpico & The Odd Couple

When Harry Met Sally? Was that one of the obvious ones Liz?

The Odd Couple - where was their apt? UWS?

cpw

When Harry Met Sally is a great one.
No one wants to say it but, You've Got Mail (UWS film)
Splash!
Secret of My Success.

oh, just watched The Squid and the Whale (Brooklyn)

http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Television/Odd-Couple-2258.html

What was the address of Oscar's and Felix's building? 'The Odd Couple' Series

1049 Park Avenue. Located in the big town.

thanks liz. yeah, i try to avoid dark and violent. doesn't agree with me.

i loved splash. tootsie, and justice for all, trading places.

French Connection, and its lesser-known sibling Seven-Ups.

prizzi's honor. awesome.

The TV address of the Odd Couple was on Park, but the movie was RSD, Riversider, which makes much more sense given their occupations. I think around 86th.

Was filmed on 190 Riverside Drive. Hats off to you.

Thirty five comments and no mentioned The Godfather? (Most of Part I and some of Part II).

And for the UWS folk, The Panic in Needle Park. (Vying with Mean Streets for most unlikely to take place in that neighborhood today thanks to gentrification)

RoseMary's baby anyone?

After Hours, Vanilla sky...Zoolander!!

Up the Sandbox

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

The Apartment (1960)

Sweet Charity

Metropolitan (1990)

Metropolitan...Great one Alan. Stillman's Last Days of Disco is fun as well.

Ghostbusters

You've Got Mail

Shaft 1971 The Gambler 1974

West Side Story

The Best of Everything: http://www.beltstl.com/2009/09/mid-century-fetish-the-best-of-everything/

I love After Hours! Saturday Night Fever anyone?

On the Town!

The French Connection (1971) (5 Oscars including Best Picture)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
I Am Legend (2007)
Marathon Man (1976)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
The Boys in the Band (1970)
Planet of the Apes (1968)

@1088 - absolutely!

I suppose someone has to add Miracle on 34th Street

Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Warriors

Some great ideas for my Netflix cue...

Dog Day Afternoon

Serpico

Oh, yeah ... Serpico was already named. Sorry!

Eyes of Laura Mars has some footage of how the city looked not to long ago.

Madagascar

The Royal Tenenbaums 2001

How about Crossing Delancey?

Concuring with you all - Working Girl, French Connection, Marathon Man, Odd Couple Godfather, Taking of Pelham 1,2,3, After Hours, Pope of Greenwich Village, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Harry/Sally, You've Got Mail. And to the Wire gals - anytime you want to start a thread I'm there. Best TV ever.

And let's not forget the New York Gold Standards:

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" (starring Audrey Hepburn)
"Pillow Talk" (starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson)
"Lover Come Back" (also starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson)

And some other notables:

"Down With Love" (starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan MacGregor, spoofing the above two movies)
"Mame" (starring Rosalind Russell)
"Auntie Mame" (remade into a musical, starring Lucille Ball)
"Boys in the Band" (a groundbreaking movie released in 1970 on gay relationships in Manhattan)
"Devil's Advocate" (starring Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves)
"War of the Worlds" (starring Tom Cruise)
"Eyes Wide Shut" (starring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise)

Also, For the RE and a few other elements, A Perfect Murder.

Unfaithful
King Kong

I've always liked Rear Window for it's nostalgic look at Brooklyn and people sleeping on their fire escapes. Plus Hitchock had a great sense of humor.

I'll offer Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City (1981) - overlooked classic? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082945/

"The Hunger" with Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon

Loved that house.

Wall Street! Has anyone said "Wall Street" yet?

NYCMatt--Good catch with Devil's Advocate. Late to the game though with Boys In the Band (see my earlier post).

Year of the Dragon - un-PC, ott violence, and some not so fine acting but a few interesting locations - the Chinese reporter lived in what seemed to be a penthouse in Dumbo, and where was the street Mickey Rourke lived with his wife?

An Affair to Remember, Dead End, Bang The Drum Slowly. City Across The River, Blackboard Jungle.

9 1/2 weeks

the brothers mcmullen

Will any gay mention Cruising? oh wait i just did

"The Sentinel" I don't remember who was in it. A great horror movie, it was filmed in a Brooklyn Heights brownstone. A young girl moves in, and discovers that it is the entrance/ vortex to Hell.
At the end of the movie, scary-looking freaks run through the building.
One of them was an actual deformed person, who really lived in Brooklyn.

Anyone remember "Jeffrey"? JasonKyle??

Steven Spielberg/Stanley Kubrick's A.I. - - NYC underwater... unforgettable imagery.
Terry Giliam's The Fischer King

I love Boys in the Band -- such a hateful little play!

Naked City (Jules Dassin)

Butterfield 8

Pickup on South Street

Sweet Smell of Success

one of my faves, can't believe i didn't think of it earlier, klute.

Moscow on Hudson!!!

love Jeffrey and in that vein there is also Stonewall

Excellent , aboutready! And in nod to the oldest profession, let's not forget Trading Places.
Yes, ngy, of course we remember Jeffrey.

Oh--Fatal Attaction with meat packing district when there was still meat there.

Pride of The Yankees

Ash Wednesday, 25th Hour, State of Grace...

"I love Boys in the Band -- such a hateful little play!"

"Hateful" how?

Am I really being asked that by somebody who embodies the birthday boy AND Connie Casserole, all rolled into one?

Although The Exorcist was set in DC, I like The Wikipedia's NY notes:

"The MacNeil residence interiors were filmed at CECO Studios in Manhattan. The bedroom set had to be refrigerated to capture the authentic icy breath of the actors in the exorcizing scenes, the bedroom scenes along with many other scenes were filmed in the basement of Fordham University in New York. The temperature was brought so low that a thin layer of snow fell onto the set one morning. Linda Blair, who was only in a thin nightgown, says to this day she cannot stand being cold."

American Psycho
House on 92nd St

Lotsa great Film Noir pictures capture New York as it was in the 1940s and 50s, and at the same time capture the essence of New York as it always has been and always will be, even as architecture and ethnicity change, and as the city's fortunes and mood change.

"Am I really being asked that by somebody who embodies the birthday boy AND Connie Casserole, all rolled into one?"

Whatever that means.

So you're not going to answer the question?

Oh wait ... never mind. Just got it.

Um ... no. Actually, I'm the embodiment of Hank and Larry.

Nice try, though.

ooohhh...good catch on the fatal attraction kw!

Um ... no. Actually, you're the embrainment of Cowboy.

Just see it ... it's about man's inhumanity against man.

The Lost Weekend.
The Big Clock.

that reminded me of: big

...bright lights big city!

Best Grand Central scenes: North by Northwest

well---then you have to include mr. blandings builds his dream house for opening scenes in manhattan

On the subject of train stations, are there any movies with great scenes in the old Penn Station?

How has no one mentioned Gangs of New York?