Best NYC movies

list them here

 

Taxi Driver
New York, New York
Gangs of New York
Escape from New York
all Woody Allen's movies from the 70's

 

The French Connection
Taking of Pelham 123 (1974)
Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
Three Days Of The Condor
Rear Window
Bad Lieutenant
Death Wish
Network
The Godfather I and II
Midnight Cowboy
Goodfellas
Serpico
Do The Right Thing
Dog Day Afternoon

 

Across 110th treet
25th Hour
The Gambler
Summer of Sam

 

A real forgotten film... Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto

 

Cool thread! Quite a few I havent seen here.

 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

 

collect 'em all, man!

 

:: That's actually a really good one.

 

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The Seven Ups

The Warriors


King Kong (1933)


Saturday Night Fever


Superfly

 

The Seven-Ups has a great chase scene

The main driver was a gentleman named Bill Hickman... He was responsible for the chase sequences in "Bullitt", "The French Connection" and "The Seven-Ups"... three of the most iconic and dangerous in film history

He appears on screen as a bad guy driving in Bullitt and Seven-Ups (where he also does of all of Roy Scheider's driving)... In the French Connection, he is not shown driving (Gene Hackman is shown) but it is actually he putting the car through its paces... He does appear in that film as the Fed "Mulderig" ... In Bullitt he drove the black Charger and did some of Steve McQueen's more dangerous stunts (contrary to popular opinion, which has it that McQueen did all of his own driving... he did MOST, to his credit, but not all)

Incidentally, he was a friend of James Dean's and was the first on the scene of his fatal accident

When you watch those scenes, they may seem somewhat tame by today's standards, but it is worth remembering A) how ill-equipped the cars being used were for that sort of treatment B) the lack of any type of CGI or similar technology and C) the editing difficulties involved in that era compared to today's movies

Those chase sequences were extremely dangerous under the circumstances they were filmed, perhaps more dangeorus than even the high flying driving stunts we see today

 

Maid in Manhattan?:dunno:
Cloverfield
World Trade Center
Wall Street
All That Jazz
Black Caesar
Gordon's War

 

:bears: one of my favorite movies

 

Do the Right Thing, for Sure....




REED:hammert:

 

Coogan's Bluff is a fun one

 

Very underrated, but one of Clint Eastwood's best films. The tv series McCloud was a rip-off of that film and 'Justified' US Marshall had some of Coogan's vibe in him too.

 

that's right... Dennis Weaver as McCloud

he was in a great TV movie called "Duel" which was an early Spielberg film... suspenseful, fun movie

 

Yeah, I loved that shit when I was a kid.

 

I'm dating myself here, but I saw "The Muppets Take Manhattan" in the theater when it came out... at that time, it was probably my favorite NYC film::

When I was little, the New York station WPIX (Channel 11) used to show old movies (they really weren't that old at the time) on the weekends and my father used to love to watch them, especially if there was no Yankee game on or no NFL, and I got to see "The French Connection" "Pelham 123", all of these awesome 70s films based in the city and I'd ask him about living there and all of that... good times, really cultivated my love for the place and the time

 

Krush Groove...



REED:dancingBaby:

 

American Psycho
Manhattan
Die Hard With a Vengeance

 

Saw this for the 1st time, a Couple Months Back...VERY Good Flick...




REED:hammert:

 

Panic in needle park has some really cool street shots of New York, as I remember.

 

Shadows from John Cassavetes is very good.

 

Crocodile Dundee

 

Anybody ever seen Next Stop Greenwich village?

 

Shame is a good recent NYC movie.