I <3 NY (9 titles)
The best films that take place in the greatest city in the world. Watch before you visit...
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Manhattan
Gershwin thunders on the soundtrack, a stunning black and white montage of scenes from the city consumes the screen and Isaac Davis is struggling with the beggining of his novel: "Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Beneath his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat." This film IS New York.
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Manhattan
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway
Director: Woody Allen
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MANHATTAN is Woody Allen's glorious love letter to the city that he was born to make films about. Woody plays Isaac Davis, a twice-divorced TV writer having a relationship with 17-year old Tracy, a high school student played by Mariel Hemingway. Isaac's best friend, Yale (Michael Murphy), is having ..read more »
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Daytrippers
This is an amusing little indie flic in which a family from comfortably suburban Long Island travel to busy, intellectual Manhattan in order to track down the husband of one of the daughters who may or may not be cheating on her.
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Daytrippers
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Parker Posey, Hope Davis, Pat McNamara
Director: Greg Mottola
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A woman who thinks she has the perfect marriage discovers a love letter addressed to her husband. She sets out to confront him with the rest of her family in tow...
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New York, New York
The film that gave the city its song. The more famous Sinatra version is actually a cover (with slightly different lyrics) of the Liza Minnelli version. When the Yankees win the Sinatra version is played, when they lose Minnelli is used. This film is avery entertaining if slightly overlong musical love story between Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli. You don't have to like musicals to like it.... trust me!
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New York, New York
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli, Lionel Stander
Director: Martin Scorsese
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This story, set in the late 1940s, follows the turbulent relationship between a saxophone player and a girl singer destined for stardom.
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Dark Days
This documentary is about people who live outside of society... well, underneath it!. Neil Jones had never made a film before but felt so moved by the plight of the homeless living in the disused railway tunnels under Manhattan that he made this fantastic film (using the homeless as camera crew etc) in order to help them. As a result, many of the homeless were moved into housing. This is what documentary film making should be!
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Dark Days
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Marc Singer
Director: Marc Singer
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DARK DAYS, a groundbreaking documentary from British director Marc Singer, shows a way of life that is unimaginable to most people. The film, which features a moving soundtrack from DJ Shadow, focuses on a group of homeless people that live deep underground in an abandoned New York City railroad ..read more »
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Rosemary's Baby
I thought I should include a film showing the darker side of New York (I was going to put Jacob's Ladder but then I thought 'wait a second, that's a bad film so I chose this instead.) This film preys on a New Yorker's fear that they never really know their neighbours and also that they might get date raped by satan... Great film!
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Rosemary's Baby
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Director: Roman Polanski
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In Roman Polanski's stylish occult thriller--possibly the director's most famous film and a big box-office success--a young, happily married couple, the waiflike Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and struggling actor Guy (John Cassavetes), move into a spacious apartment in a venerable old building off Central ..read more »
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The Warriors
Cult film set in a future (1997 where New York is overun by street gangs. Violent but very entertaining (see also the more iconic 'Escape from New York')
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The Warriors
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright
Director: Walter Hill
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Violent action story of the street gangs of New York who struggle to survive against each other. The action takes place at night in the sub-culture of gang warfare that rages from Coney Island to Manhattan to the Bronx.
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Smoke
Written by novelist Paul Auster (and based on his own short story), this witty and literary film features a group of characters linked by a Brooklyn tabacconist's run by a charcter called Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel). Compelling, funny and unexpectedly moving. Very Brooklyn...
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Smoke
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing
Director: Wayne Wang
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A collection of unrelated characters somehow come together and change each others lives... A cigar store manager takes a daily photograph of his store... A writer recently widowed is unable to write... A man who accidentally killed his wife runs away from his past...
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The Age Of Innocence
Beautiful film of unconsumated romance set in the 19th century amongst New York's upper classes. Based on the novel by Edith Wharton, this film was directed by Martin Scorsese and it is not hard to spot the similarities between the rituals and codes of honour of the aristos in thsi film and the ruthless gangsters he is more commonly associated with.
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The Age Of Innocence
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
Director: Martin Scorsese
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An adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel which chronicles the hypocrisy of high society in the 1880s and tells of three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a love triangle.
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Do The Right Thing
Racial tensions run high on the hottest day of the summer in the Bed-Stuy neighbourhood of Brooklyn. Spike Lee gradually builds up the tension transforming the film from a kind of hazy, joyful dream to a climax of blistering violence that is all too real. Absolutely brilliant.
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Do The Right Thing
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee
Director: Spike Lee
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A local black community is unhappy that their community is effectively being run by whites. As the heat rises on a hot summer's day in Brooklyn, so the racial tension, which has so far lay dormant under the surface, begins to rise.
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