Die Hard 2: Die Harder!
Ghostbusters (1 & 2)
Fame
On the Town
A lot of the semi-recent disaster movies had NYC scenes. Armageddon, Deep Impact ect.
I particularly like Godspell as a New York film. Not only is it filmed entirely in Manhattan (except or the shots on the Circle Line that are filmed just offshore), but, except fr the very beginning and end, you don’t see anybody in the city except the main performers! That took some doing. They filmed on Wall Street on weekends, and shot up at the Timex screen in Times Square so as to avoid eople, but there’s an aerial shot that zeroes in on the “John the Baptist” character flating in a pool atop a building, and that aerial shot moves in without showing any people or cars. Heckuva job.
if you are looking for varieties of ways of viewing NYC, you can’t get much different than On the Town which was filmed in about 1949 and features thee sailors singing and dancing their way around town, including a trip to Coney Island and a visits to several other New York landmarks.
Also, After Hours.
You can add another Scorsese movie here: Mean Streets.
I am a big fan of that movie, and I wrote to director David Greene back in 1978 to tell him so. He wrote back in a nice letter several pages long (it was his favorite movie, too). Among other things, he said that those “empty New York” shots were all about camera angles; just outside the frame or around the corner were crowds watching the filming.
And then there’s the cast happily singing and dancing on the roof of a skyscraper to assure us that it’s All for the Best — until a helicopter pull-back shot reveals they’re atop the just completed south tower of the World Trade Center.
That’s the one set in Dulles. I think you mean the third one.
I just noticed that nobody’s mentioned Hair.
What! Am I the first to mention Tugboat Annie?
Let us not forget Queens Logic – it is so very New York.
Last week I told my girlfriend that I’d just watched a movie where Jesus, dressed in a clown suit, was dancing a vaudeville atop the WTC, and that this Jesus, a smiling freshfaced hippy of about 22 was played by Victor Garber. Yes, that Victor Garber. She wanted to know what I had been smoking.
Pot, duh.
Ooops! You’re right, it was Die Hard with a Vengence.
Nothing Sacred with Carole Lombard and Fredric March involves a Vermont woman who “wins” a free trip to NYC under false pretenses. It’s a screwball comedy (or at least proto-screwball), and has some great “arriving in New York” moments. The city really seems like some kind of fairy-tale land, especially watching it 70 years later.
No Way Home, starring Tim Roth, Debra Karr Unger and James Russo. It was shot entirely in Staten Island.
No way!
You have to include Hannah and Her Sisters
Ok, one more: Crimes and Misdemeanors
A top pick for grim '70’s: Panic in Needle Park
Network is a classic.
Bonfire of the Vanities less so.
Married to the Mob
Although the climactic come-uppance of the brothers in Trading Places took place in New York, the rest of the movie was in Philadelphia.
How could you forget a bunch of Spike Lee movies: Crooklyn , Do The Right Thing , etc.
and Saturday Night Fever! (Brooklyn)
Smoke (Brooklyn)
The Professional
All Through The Night
The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (subway)
Sisters (Staten Island?)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (various)
K-PAX
In America (Manhattan)
Maria Full Of Grace (Queens?)
The Terminal (JFK?)
As Good As It Gets
Death Wish
That movie last year about really bad weather.
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Men In Black
Jesus Christ Superstar
Stuart Little/2
Devil’s Advocate
and Rumble In the “Bronx” was shot in Vancouver (?)
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NYC is all things to all people. Maybe films tend to split into gritty city, vs. cosmopolitan cultural.
I don’t see any mention of Crossing Delancey, in which a young Jewish single woman’s grandmother keeps trying to get her married off to some nice Jewish boy or other.
JCS was filmed in Israel.
However, since you mentioned Saturday Night Fever, in keeping with the disco theme, I’ll throw in 54.
A Fish In The Bathtub. ( Queens, Manhatten ).
The Terminal was shot in a multi-floored set built north of Los Angeles, in a huge airplane hangar frequently used for huge set movies.
It was not a real airplane terminal at all. It was a beautifully rendered film set, from floor to lack-of-ceiling.
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Cartooniverse
I bet I’m confusing it with Hair!
Cool. The Airport Terminal as a nonplace, a non-localized location.
**Breakfast At Tiffany’s?
Angel On My Shoulder?
That Mr. Deeds Adam Sandler movie?
The Odd Couple?
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn?
Bell, Book, and Candle?
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Maybe there are fewer nice wholesome movies filmed in NYC these days?
Yes. While a bit racy at some moments, I must say that IMHO Hitch is a sweet romance comedy that was shot last year in NYC- mostly Manhatten.