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New York city's streets are a favorite location for filmmakers. Anyone who's ever turned the corner in their neighborhood only to be confronted by a giant trailer or cherry picker rig, knows this. Even as it gets colder, there's still lots of movie being filmed in the city. For instance, the last week or so 2nd Avenue in the East Village has been home to one of the many local film or TV productions.
Earlier this week in the NY Times, John Leland reported from the set in Harlem of Tony Scott's new movie with Russell Crowe, American Gangster. This weekend, the reviews TV show Reel Talk with Jeffrey Lyons and Alison Bailes focuses on movies shot here in New York. They list whole films set in New York and particularly memorable scenes from iconic locations. The show airs on Saturday at 7 pm on NBC. Also, this fall the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting have been celebrating 40 years of Film in New York with a series of events throughout the city.
Do you have a favorite story about when your block starred in a movie or TV show?
[Production still from Woody Allen's classic love letter to New York, Manhattan.]
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the night after al pacino won the oscar for 'scent of a woman' (or, as it was classically called on beavis & butthead, 'smell of a chick'), he was shooting 'carlito's way' on gay street in the village. everyone was on the rooftops looking down and, between takes, gave him thunderous applause... and did that "HOO-HAH" thing from the movie.
the russell crowe thing is shooting by me. they have trailers up and down the block and the people working for them are obnoxious. I was waiting to cross broadway once while they were there a couple weeks ago and some young bitch (probably an nyu grad student) told us we "had to cross one way or the other." I said "the light is red." She said oh and kept on trying to herd us around against the light. I had wanted to amend ",bitch" to my statement as well as tell her to go back wherever she came from (which was definitely NOT new york), but I refrained.
Other than that, my "favorite" story is a tie between when i lived on Broome and mott and they were filming at Palais Royal (bar next to Double Happiness) and I was awake half the night from the blaring lights and noise, OR maybe when i was on E2nd and they filmed all night immediately outside my window, thus illuminating the entire room.
Can't the l&o people write a book about respectful filming?
I, for one, am sick of film crews using (and abusing) my neighborhood on a regular basis. I am tired of being told by 16 year old production assistants that I cannot walk my usual route home. I am tired of "No Parking" signs appearing a day before a shoot. I am tired of lights and noise. I am tired of that catering truck and food table, where pompous, self-important film people can't bring themselves to throw their trash in the bins provided and litter my sidewalk with empty coffee cups, water bottles and more.
Let them create Brownstone Brooklyn on a yard in Hollywood or in Toronto or Vancouver.
With all the movies listed on the interactive map, I'm really surprised that they missed Once Upon a Time in America and all the wonderful footage shot in Williamsburg.
A few years back I lived on 13th street (incidentally -- in a building once used in the movie Taxi Driver). A film company used an abandoned building two doors down. They un-boarded the windows and added new ones, and fixed up the front to look like a late 19th-century building. Filmed people going in and out for a couple days. Then, they removed all the fixtures, windows and everything, re-boarded it up to look abandoned again.
The neighbors were all kind of hoping they would leave it.
oh yeah ... this one time i wasn't "allowed" to walk up fifth avenue from washington square park and got corralled around by three guys who couldn't decide on which way i was "allowed" to go. oh wait ... that was last week. oh wait, and it was four days in a frickin row.
When I lived on 26th Street years ago, MEN IN BLACK filmed at the Armory (Lexington/26th), which served as the Morgue. I got an autograph from the cat.
I detest the movie, but Working Girl was filmed in, what used to be, an abandoned mansion on 19th and Irving. Used to walk by on my way home from school when they were filming to get a glimpse of Han Solo/Indiana Jones and Sigourney Weaver gave me a cookie from the craft table even though I was 14. That and being admired by Garbo as a baby to my parent’s disbelief (not the admiration but the fact that the reclusive Garbo was pinching my cheeks).
Here are some picture of the American Gangster shoot if anybody is interested:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thousandrobots/tags/americangangster/
oops...should be "ridley" not "tony" (wrong brother) in the main post, and should be "pictures" not "picture" in my hasty comment above.
I hate these film crews... They are really annoying... Is there anything NY'ers can do to get them out of here? If the movie industry pays nothing to use a city public space, where does an annual $5 billion go to in the local economy??? Get Hollywood off the streets of NYC!!!