Best New York Movies 1970s-1980s
1)Dog Day Afternoon
2)Serpico
3)Mean Streets
4)The Pope of Greenwich Village
5)After Hours
6)The Warriors
7)Sea of Love
8)Taxi Driver
9)Do the Right Thing
10)The Panic in Needle Park
"Oh God, They shot me with unreal..."--Leon in "Dog Day Afternoon."
Feel free to add your own.
4 comments:
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The Wanderers
The Taking of the Pelham 1-2-3
Annie Hall/Manhattan/Hannah & Her Sisters (you gotta have Woody and the nicer side of NYC)
Ft Apache- THE BRONX (not the greatest, but its theme was current).
Prisoner of 2nd Avenue (did not transition well from stage to screen, but like Ft Apache, its theme was very current).
Death Wish (how could anyone forget that one?)
ditto annie hall/manhattan
the king of comedy
smithereens, a crap flick-- but a total slice of seedy/break of the 80s nyc
"Mixed Blood" (see it for the Menudo references and the great, long gone funky East side),
"Desparately Seeking Susan" (how can you not love a movie that features "Love Saves the Day?"),
"Ghostbusters" ('nuff said on that),
"Liquid Sky" (certainly captures a period),
I concur with your informal addition of "Metropolitan" (showing a side of NY most of us don't believe still exists),
and I'd agree with "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" (filmed largely in a once defunct 18th Street station which it was always eerie passing through).
Nice post.
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