The Most NYC Movie Ever

after hours

on the waterfront is a new jersey film -- it was filmed in Hoboken.

Dog Day Afternoon

would totally have gone with Eyes Wide Shut tbh

After deep pondering of this momentous question, I chose Do the Right Thing.

What number was You've Got Mail?

trying to decide between sweet smell of success, ghostbusters, goodfellas and french connection

too bad blast of silence didn't make the list

lol C.H.U.D. was #100 on the list!

and carlito's way didn't make it AT ALL. benny blanco is not happy!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=589cMH_NE7E

So many amazing films there. I can only vote as an outsider--been to New York all of twice in my life. I would think era has a lot to do with it--Sweet Smell of Success is one New York, Taxi Driver another--and borough, too. Sweet Smell of Success, with no strong rationale.

It took me all my effort to not call you out by name in the title of this poll, clemenza.

Definitely a favourite subgenre of mine. (I'm sure I'm not alone in only knowing a New York City that exists in movies.) I scrolled through the whole list and immediately started thinking of '70s omissions: Desperate Characters, Panic in Needles Park, etc.

"Needle"

Wait, this last has C.H.U.D. but not Basket Case?!

All About Eve isn't a NYC film?

It's way far down on the list. Somewhere in the 70s or 80s I think.

Goin' faggot on this one

i liked this from last year's 9/11 10th anniversary edition of Time Out New York

SUPERMAN (1978)
Accept no remakes. Here's the gold-standard origin film, which unwittingly captures a pungent Koch-era New York in all its glory. We dare you not to get a lump in your throat when Christopher Reeve soars past Battery Park and the old skyline. That image alone merits the movie's placement on any reputable NYC list; the rest of the film offers at least a dozen more.

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-20-best-nyc-movies-of-all-time

rumble in the bronx

I'm shocked SHOCKED that the original The Out Of Towners is missing from both lists.

french connection

home alone 2

yeesh, ghost dog is on the full list. that movie is pure jersey. perhaps the most jersey movie ever!

the warriors and escape from new york are pretty good representations of what a lot of us who grew up in the NJ suburbs during the 1980s thought NYC at its grimiest was all about.

i think of Woody Allen, Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese as the quintessential NYC filmmakers -- but i tend to think of their films as Woody Allen/Spike Lee/Martin Scorsese films first and NYC films second (if that makes any sense). i also mentally bracket Abel Ferrara and Jim Jarmusch as NYC filmmakers -- though neither has any films in the Top 30 and none of Jarmusch's joints are even in the Top 100 (which is as criminal as leaving out Carlito's Way).

i'll have to think of which will get my vote.

yeesh, ghost dog is on the full list. that movie is pure jersey. perhaps the most jersey movie ever!

nothing is more New York than New Yorkers taking credit for positive stuff from New Jersey (and disclaiming credit for bad stuff from New Jersey). see off-the-cuff NYCer references to the New York Giants vs. the New Jersey Jets (even though the Giants have a much stronger NJ fanbase than the Jets do).

whoops, forgot that ghost dog is a Jarmusch film. so i stand corrected on there being no Jarmusch films in this poll.

I have never heard anyone suggest a name change to the new jersey jets, I think the only people who even care are new jersey people

Taking of Pelham

i SAID that they were off-the-cuff remarks ... you just move in different circles than i do.

the first thing i think of is desperately seeking susan. did jacobs ladder not make the list?

Would feel overly challopsy to go with anything outside the top 3. But it's definitely true that my upstate NY teen's view of NYC was heavily shaped by The Warriors, After Hours and Escape From New York.

Also, Liquid Sky.

The point of the poll isn't the best movie, but the most NYC-steeped movie, as I understand it.

voted pelham 123.

poll in dire need of die hard 3.

was just about to say the exact same things, die hard 3 is the pelham 123 of the 90s and as such vastly underrated.

mctiernan is amazingly good at capturing a sense of locale in all of his peak-era flix

yep, totally.

taxi driver or do the right thing are good picks too. woody allen ones feel a little too yuppo for me to vote for em.

no midnight cowboy? didn't that one popularize AY, I'M WALKIN 'ERE?

i voted annie hall cause it was the only one on this list that kinda felt like actually living in nyc. maybe if i were a wall st person, or society girl, or snake plissken, i'd feel differently

This list proves that NYC is the best movie city ever.

^^^^

midnight cowboy is on the list in the link, just not in the top 30

One thing that's basically absent from the full list is classic '40s and '50s noir--just Sweet Smell of Success, if you really push the definition. (The Naked City doesn't count, right?) Were almost all of them set in L.A., or did they miss something?

Well, there's Pickup on South Street, which is pretty great and very New York.

there are so many different new yorks! this is what is great about new york! do the right thing and manhattan are equally "new york" despite being about very different new yorks

rumble in the bronx

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that being said ^^^^ this is my answer too

Speaking of noir, anyone seen The Window? Sounds interesting.

The Window-the one about the little boy who witnesses a murder, right? I remember liking it though I don't remember it too well.
For my answer I am torn between Dog Day Afternoon and Pelham 1,2,3.
The Docks of New York is a great NY set movie that doesn't seem to be on the list.

Voted for 25th Hour (over a lot of things, not least of all my fave movie ever) mostly because it's the NYC that I know from only having visited it in the aftermath of 9/11. And also because that movie is beautiful.

Does the full list not include any documentaries?

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."

I voted for that.

The thing about Taxi Driver is that not only does it portray the huge scope of NYC, but the isolation and loneliness that comes from living in a place so big that it's long ago outgrown its human scale.

otoh, do the right thing is about the complexities of community and culture as much at the actions and feelings of individuals, and it's at least as true to its place as taxi driver.

^ why i voted for DtRT

well this is awkward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKMRywykNX0

This list proves that NYC is the best movie city ever.

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there are so many different new yorks! this is what is great about new york! do the right thing and manhattan are equally "new york" despite being about very different new yorks

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things that i agree with but just want to go "yeah yeah shut up" when they're actually spelled out

Is the same not true of all or most large cities at least to some degree?

yes

it's not true of Jacksonville.

Man, I can tell an episode of COPS filmed in Jacksonville from just the first ten seconds of the show, and I've only been to the airport.

I love whatever interview it is with Scorsese where he talks about how terrified he was filming in Times Square for Taxi Driver. I think that comes through in the movie, the city is completely alive and often malignant.

since NYC has no more room for weirdos, Chelsea Girls

then again, that street in Dog Day was 5 blocks from my longest-held apartment.

after this. we do LA

I just watched the Landlord . . . so good! In case you haven't seen it, it starts like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1XN-yz5KT8

Ashby is so funny on parent-child relationships.

Would love to compare how natives' votes would differ from outsiders/transplants

I went to a screening of after hours in Paris when I was feeling homesick for new york

wtf @ no Midnight Cowboy?

One of my favorite sub-genres as well. A couple that I'd add to the original list:

Blast of Silence
Putney Swope
Coogan's Bluff (well, the exterior shots anyway)
The 7-Ups

If I had to pick one, it'd probably be "After Hours"--it just perfectly captures a wild night out here.

Mister Buddwing should at least be a nominee here.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Native NYer here (well, 25 years)--I voted for Pelham 123

the locations of Annie Hall:

http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=5704

rip frank pierson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyjIMrFlpw

No On the Bowery, no credibility.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Soooooo I LOVE Eyes Wide Shut, and I was telling my sister how it makes me wanna go back to NYC (I've only been one time, in 2003, for 4 miserable days wherein it snowed most of the time). Then I found out it wasn't even filmed in NYC! What the...!?!

yeah, Kubrick wasn't big on leaving England for the last few decades of his life

there's some stock/2nd unit footage, but yeah, it's a fictional NY posing as Vienna.

morbs be honest - how relieved are you that ghostbusters didn't win this?

not at all. why would i look at the results?

I knew Eyes Wide Shut wasn't filmed here but I thought it was Toronto for some reason

the warriors and escape from new york are pretty good representations of what a lot of us who grew up in the NJ suburbs during the 1980s thought NYC at its grimiest was all about.

for me it was ms 45 and the exterminator

not sure how I missed this poll

do the right thing would be my outer borough answer but would've pulled the lever for taxi driver

i'll take yer word re the exterminator, but definitely anything Abel Ferrara did from the 1970s up till 1995 or so pretty much typifies scuzzy NYC for me.

200 Cigarettes ftw

Oh shit, I read it as "worst" nyc movie ever, which is 200 Cigarettes.

i'll take yer word re the exterminator, but definitely anything Abel Ferrara did from the 1970s up till 1995 or so pretty much typifies scuzzy NYC for me.

basket case really nails this vibe too, surprisingly

the low budget helps

Death Wish is grungy as hell. Funny to read reviews from the time that described its portrayal of the city as looking "futuristic."

I don't think there was even any outdoor shooting with the actors in EWS, everything was on a Shepperton soundstage.

duh, I'm wrong. Forgot about places like the orgy mansion.

http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/e/eyeswide.html

i watch after hours just to see my old neighborhood in its 80s glory...hannah and her sisters also has great soho locations in it

i mean, i love after hours as a movie, too, obviously!

When I was younger I wanted to live in the movie Hannah and Her Sisters.

TCM Underground is showing "The Foreigner" and "Alphabet City" tonight. I haven't seen either but I imagine they'll both have decent location shots.

First thing to jump to mind when I saw thread title was Metropolitan. Never even mentioned!

Man I really need to watch Panic in Needle Park while it's still on NF insta

Didn't care much for The Seven-Ups, but it's very New Yorky.

here's a thang i wrote about NYC movies

https://medium.com/@markcoleman57/nightmare-realism-watching-nyc-on-tv-5ca8646d1a01

_Mister Buddwing_ should at least be a nominee here.

And now uptown shooting dice with Nichelle Nichols!

Now Garner remembers something and screams!

Mean Streets didn't even make the list?