You Asked For It: NYC Movies

gangs was shot on a lot in italy. i thought we were trying to keep it to actual nyc location use. that's probably why.

Kramer vs Kramer (famous RSD Park bike riding scene)
Arthur (through the park, Bitterman ...you know how I love the park")
Taxi Driver (Bernard Hermann, love it)
Tootsie

actually there's loads ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_New_York_City#1980s

thanks for starting the thread liz!

"what about me" - AR you might like, have you seen it?
smithereens
desperately seeking susan
annie
the wiz
wild style
bright lights, big city

oh and... kids

Clockers the movie is set in Brooklyn (most of Spike Lee's films are) even though Richard Price's book takes place in Jersey City.

Guess I should list:

She's Got To Have It
Mo' Better Blues
Jungle Fever
Crooklyn
Do The Right Thing
Malcom X (parts of anyway)

glamma, no, i'll check it out.

not yet released, but i'm eagerly anticipating, motherless brooklyn.

another brooklyn duo, smoke and blue in the face (with lou reed, no less)

quick change

Three Days of the Condor!

nyc10023, knock yaself out: http://www.powwmedia.com/pennsy/media.htm

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

alanhart, Looking for Mr. Goodbar is based more-or-less on a true incident that occurred in New York (W. 72nd St.), but was filmed in Chicago, and possibly set in Chicago for the movie, so perhaps you shouldn't have listed in here ... but great totally disturbing movie!

and awesome disco soundtrack

Speaking NYC movies with great songs "Across 110th Street". (The song was used in something else recently, wish I could remember what.)

Hitch
Nighthawks

New Jack City

Lizyank: beat you to Condor, but yeah--LOVED it.
Speaking of disco...
"Can't Stop the Music" was an atrocious and now wonderfully awful movie starring Village People.
"Saturday Night Fever" and the abysmal sequel "Staying Alive'"

and if you are going to go clubbing add the not so great "Studio 54". "Across 110th Street" is used in "Jackie Brown" and more recently "American Gangster" (which should be on here too) and was mentioned by me on the NY Songs thread. I also claim dibs on first mentioning Desperately Seeking Susan.

Mutombonyc...Can't believe you beat me to New Jack...Ouch.
Thanks Jason, it was "American Gangster that featured "Across 110th Street" and it absolutely belongs on this list.

What about Goodfellas?

Juice!

Working Girl, as already said, definitely has to be up there.
I love New Jack City, but its so godly overblown.

But lets not forget...

Hackers

and did anybody get...

Ghostbusters!

On the Waterfront (Hoboken, close enough)
Sleepers
August Rush

fame!

Little Manhattan - great depiction of the difference between pre-teen sects on the UWS (he's Riverside, she's Central Park)...

You've Got Mail

Titanic - don't know if the last scene where they pull into NY Harbor counts

Since animation has been mentioned...An American Tail

I think someone beat me to it...I Am Legend

There are a lot.

Some surprising non mentions this late in the thread....

King of NY
Bad Lieutenant
Dog Day Afternoon

and a 50%'er in Nyc....Black Rain

and maybe the worst nyc movie....Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo

I see your Breakin 2 and raise you a Krush Groove

somewhereelse,

"I love New Jack City, but its so godly overblown."

Thats why I like you.

And lizyank too.

lizyank - are you watching Tremme? from creators of the wire. i'm not by hubby is enjoying it and critics say it may be BETTER than The Wire.

sorry, it's Treme.

uwsmom, it's good, but might be a bit quick to judge after 3 episodes. Especially compared to the Wire.

That show has great musicians as guest stars.

The Departed.

I love that NYC was the cheaper option for filming a movie set in Boston.

Can't remember... did we get..

Scent of a Woman

Home Alone (plaza scenes)

Sex and the City!

somewhereelse: The ongoing, neverending "Big Dig" in Boston makes it nearly impossible to film there. Not enough space on the streets for filming, production trucks, and Jack.

"The Departed.

I love that NYC was the cheaper option for filming a movie set in Boston."

The film was actually shot in both cities. Not surprising considering it's Scorsese.

Truth, the Big Dig is actually done as well. Finally.

I am watching. Treme is excellent, superb, keeps me riveted and waiting for next week, and the mixing of real music stars with the cast is incredibly subtle and well done. But it ain't no Wire...Perhaps after season 2 is concluded I could change my mind but right now I'd be hard pressed to think that a show would ever stand as tall as that Everest. Then again, what was a better team the 1961 Yankees or the 1998 version?

What I find interesting about Treme, uwsmom see if your husband agrees, if that both Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters are essentially playing the same character they did on The Wire. The Bunk: Drunk, womanizing, heart of gold, loves his job and is good at it, loves his woman and family in his own way; Lester: Wise man, all knowing, brings the best out in people whether they want him to or not, giver of "tough love" to his proteges, stubborn as hell...too stubborn to quit even when that's the only smart thing to do.

I will admit to unhealthy obsession where The Wire is concerned.

Pasadena on Treme and not better than The Wire.

Miracle on 34th Street
Serendipity
One Fine Day
Thomas Crown Affair

bjw: The Big Dig is complete? Was it , at the time of that movie's filming? I was in Boston at the same time filming was taking place; and Big Digging was still happening. We had difficulty with our tour buses and trucks, driving in the streets of Boston. It was still quite a mess.

So, how long until the walls and construction cave-in, as with that tragic case of the first completed section; crashing in on that lady and her car?

wc_nyc: Very good additions to this list!

What do you mean I'm funny?
What do you mean, you mean the way I talk? What?
Funny how? What's funny about it?
Oh, oh, He's a big boy, he knows what he said. What did ya say? Funny how?
You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
No, no, I don't know, you said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny!
Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.

And-- the Oscar goes to FALCOGOLD1 !!!

old enough (1984)

Escape from NY

The Duke.... The Duke of New York....A-Number-1

Warriors.....come out and palyeeeyay

Taking from:
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/9993-kalahari-vs-northside-piers?page=2

"You should rent the doc on him called "Wild Combination". It's pretty great. Very interesting picture of late 70's/early 80's NYC."

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5tM1coZr4k

"Home Alone (plaza scenes)"

Central Park scenes too.

> Serendipity
> One Fine Day

Awful, awful movies. Very NYC, but awful.

"Escape from NY

The Duke.... The Duke of New York....A-Number-1"

omg, how could I forget that one!?!??!

somewhereelse,

Did you see Wild Combination?

Maestro, a documentary on The Loft (David Mancuso), Paradise Garage (Larry Levan) and contemporary clubs. Movie can be found on youtube.

The wonderful baseball movie "Sugar". While much of it takes place in the DR and somewhere in Middle America, the film's ends up, happily, in Washington Heights.

Oh, Sugar. Yes, agreed, awesome. Forgot about NYC. But there was also more Kansas (?) than NYC if I recall. Just happens to be the last bit here.

And did we get KIDS?

mut, have not seen that one yet....

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

With you 1000% on splash and tootsie.... but trading places was all philly until the final scene.

Scent of a Woman (DUMBO)
The remake of Vanilla Sky was very NY (she lived in DUMBO, he ran around times square naked).

Midnight Cowboy, I assume we got.

And did we get Bronx Tale?

and, oh my lord, how can we forget...

FLAMINGO KID!

Vanilla Sky just made me think of "I am Legend."
Loved the opening scene hunting on safari thru midtown with a mustang.

I thought of it, but its a remake of movies set elsewhere. Omega man was LA.

I think someone got inside man.

but what abou the siege. funky movie, but the idea of having Queens as as concentration camp?!?!

actually, come to think of it... vanilla sky was a remake too.

Did anyone name Woody Allen movies?

The First Wives Club
Scenes from a mall
Stella

Shaft

"I thought of it, but its a remake of movies set elsewhere. Omega man was LA"
So I guess we can throw Soylent Green into the mix.

Yeah everything is a remake. I was looking forward to a "Logan's Run" remake, 'til they came out with that awful movie with Johansson an McGregor that resembled it.

The Hot Rock, 1972, Robert Redford, George Segal. Jewelry heist movie, lots of Manhattan scenes, including one in which Redford takes a helicopter ride around the World Trade Center in mid-construction.

Did anyone add Kings of New York?

nice! you mean King of NY right? Mr. Walken...

> Scenes from a mall
Its the Stamford Mall.

Marathon Man? we get that

also, Queens Logic. mediocre movie, but very NYC.

And if you include LI, how about Sabrina?

and we got the godfather, right?

kfsee: Good call on The Hot Rock.

somewhereelse,

Yes, King of NY with Mr. Walken. LOL. Thnx.

Scenes from a mall, I don't know why I thought that was Queens Center Mall, LOL, good catch. Thnx.

See no evil, hear no evil, with R. Pryor & G. Wilder.

Strictly Business with Halle Berry.

I'm on a roll YESSSSSSSSSSsssssssssssssss

Quick Change, starring, Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Randy Quaid

Fatal Attraction & Ghost.

Cocktail Tom Cruise

Cotton comes to Harlem

Claudine - Diahann Carroll of NYC & James Earl Jones.

Excellent catch mutombonyc....I forgot Claudine. Great theme song "On and On" by Gladys Knight and the Pips

Coming to America
Straight Out of Brooklyn
Dead End
Deathwish
Arthur

lizyank,

Thats my song too.

The Landlord starring Beau Bridges.

Does anyone remember this film?

Did Joe Pesci, star in a remake of this film?

Pesci starred in "The Super". They don't claim it as a remake.

btw, I just thought of a HUGE one we totally forgot...

EDDIE!