Best N.Y.C. Movies I Have Seen

Submitted by allegheny on Tue, 03/01/2005 - 11:05
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  1. Brighton Beach Memoirs (Gene Saks-1986)
  2. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet-1975)
  3. Taking of Pehlam 123
  4. Manhattan (Woodie Allen-1982)
  5. The Sunshine Boys
  6. In America (Jim Sheridan-2003)
  7. The Out-of-Towners (Original)
  8. Serpico (Sidney Lumet-1973)
  9. New York Stories (Scorsese/Coppola/Allen)
  10. A Bronx Tale (Robert DeNiro-1993)
  11. Annie Hall (Woodie Allen-1977)
  12. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman-1984)
  13. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese-2002)
  14. Summer of Sam (Spike Lee-1999)
  15. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
  16. The Odd Couple
  17. Barefoot in the Park
  18. French Connection (William Friedkin-1971)
  19. 12 Angry Men (Original and 1996 version)
  20. Fort Apache, The Bronx
  21. The Prisoner of Second Avenue
  22. I'm not Rappaport
  23. Crocidile Dundee
  24. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner-1989)
  25. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
  26. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
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Best movies based in and featuring The Apple.

flfrleta03/12/2005

Sweet Smell of Success is a favorite of mine. Tony Curtis is at his best. I would have had this performance on my list of Essential Performances A to Z but felt it was too obvious a choice. Instead I chose another Alexander Mackendrick directed film... one that nobody has heard of but that deserves some attention. It's one of Tony's better 1960s comedies.
Another fine N.Y.C. movie is Love With the Proper Stranger. It's a different kind of role for Steve McQueen but he pulls it off. I put it on my Essentials list, not because it's his best, but because it's something different that also deserves some attention.

allegheny03/12/2005

Wow, I learn something everyday. Never heard of these movies you mention but they sound good. Not much of a Tony Curtis fan, but he was in some essential movies: Spartacus, Some Like It Hot, The Defiant Ones.

allegheny01/25/2006

Oh I know what you are talking about, Sweet Smell of Success is like a film noir where Burt Lancaster and Curtis are ruthless newspaper execs who use their columsn to tear down people and such, right?

192203/26/2005

Wouldn't Scorsese's New York, New York be an obvious choice for such a list?

allegheny01/28/2006

Maybe, if I had seen it, and if it was good enough