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Post by spiderwort on Mar 25, 2020 14:56:00 GMT
In light of the virus jeopardizing so many, I thought it would be nice to recognize some films that take place in the currently most vulnerable areas:
New York (especially Manhattan) New Jersey the Pacific northwest
California, especially the San Francisco bay area New Orleans (its trajectory is particularly perilous)
Favorites or not.
EDIT: Or maybe just share stories about the places, if you know them (and pictures, whatever). Anything to brighten the horizon, no pun intended.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 25, 2020 15:12:23 GMT
Fort Hamilton section of Bay Ridge Brooklyn, New York .. Saturday Night Fever  Sat on this bench even before the bridge was built !
Coney Island, Brooklyn New York.. The Little Fugitive   Under the boardwalk … finding bottles was a source of childhood income ! |
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 25, 2020 15:59:37 GMT
I sure would like to be able to drop into the Astoria Theater at Steinway St. and 30th Avenue in Queens to see that 1949 double feature. This venerable old movie house closed in 2002 and the spot is now retail shops.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 25, 2020 16:06:35 GMT
mikef6 Grandpa  worked at Steinway Piano there in Astoria. He was a wood craftsman there.
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 25, 2020 16:28:00 GMT
Sleepless in Seattle covered the Pacific Northwest and New York  |
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 25, 2020 17:47:54 GMT
A couple of favorites set in San Francisco: I Remember Mama (1948)  Petulia (1968)  and two set in New York: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)  The Apartment (1960)  |
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 25, 2020 18:08:41 GMT
Force of Evil (1948) was set firmly in Manhattan with plenty of great location shots. The George Washington Bridge  Wall Street  |
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 25, 2020 18:18:10 GMT
plus THE NAKED CITY locations
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 25, 2020 18:21:18 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Mar 25, 2020 19:15:35 GMT
New York, there ought to be pictures from It Should Happen to You 1954, Sunday in New York 1963 and The World of Henry Orient 1964. But I'm not the right one to tell what is what in New York.    |
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 25, 2020 20:03:08 GMT
Poor San Francisco. It’s always something. IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA  RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES  SAN ANDREAS  CONTAGION (Yikes!)  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 25, 2020 21:18:34 GMT
jervistetch That shot from CONTAGEON looks like a typical day in NYC when the Garbagemen …. errrrrr The Sanitary Engineers are on strike ! 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 25, 2020 21:23:10 GMT
San Fran .. The Pursuit of Happyness  REAL guy on the left ! The Smiths on the Right. |
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 25, 2020 21:26:24 GMT
New York, there ought to be pictures from It Should Happen to You 1954, Sunday in New York 1963 and The World of Henry Orient 1964. But I'm not the right one to tell what is what in New York.
Hey, tele, I love your choices. Lots of fun. And I would add this Judy Holliday joy (hard not to love that woman).
I haven't seen that film in ages, but I still remember it for one wonderful scene: when Judy and Dean are out on the streets of New York and she starts talking to strangers, who are caught off guard at first, then talk back to her, and then they begin to talk to others, and soon the whole street is talking to each other - not something one would ever expect in Manhattan and is quite a treat to see.
And jervistetch , what great choices for poor, pitiful San Francisco! It Came From Beneath the Sea sure brings back a lot of childhood memories. I'd add to your list the old classic, San Francisco.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 25, 2020 21:32:45 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 25, 2020 21:41:23 GMT
The Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles, featured in:
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
D.O.A.
I, THE JURY
BLADE RUNNER
WOLF
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 25, 2020 22:00:57 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 25, 2020 22:28:45 GMT
Chicago  Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 25, 2020 22:29:34 GMT
“Not a single roll of toilet paper in all of New Orleans!”  |
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Post by politicidal on Mar 26, 2020 0:07:40 GMT
“Not a single roll of toilet paper in all of New Orleans!” Brilliant. |
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