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February 02, 2007
New York Movie List, cont.
okay, here's the movie list so far, from suggestions and movies that I've remembered:
*A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [book and movie are extraordinarily powerful. And a good reflection of the immigrant experience and the diversity of New York City. And I found out what rag pickers are]
*Almost any Woody Allen movie [Jeannette's suggestion]
*The Godfather movies, especially the second one with flashbacks to New York during the early part of the 20th century, and an incredible scene of Ellis Island
*Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence (Joanna's read the book, and we're planning to watch the movie together. [update: we watched it--it's quite good]
*Ric Burns' many hour documentary New York.
*The haunting indy film In America, taking place in Hell's Kitchen
*Ghostbusters [Tim Smith's suggestion--wow, I haven't seen that movie since I was wee!]
*Men in Black [Tim Smith again. Ooo, that reminds me of seeing Will Smith in his recent movie Pursuit of Happyness , which is incredible]
*The Muppets Take Manhattan [*grin* Non-sequiter, for some reason the teenagers at church have developed an obsession with the Swedish Chef. A few weeks ago they had a slumber party at our house and wanted to fast-forward through our Muppet Show DVD to all of the Swedish Chef bits, and then performed their own interpretations for us].
Any other ideas, folks? We'll keep the list going!
movies | By Tim and Jo | 11:37 AM
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Don't forget about "You've Got Mail"
Posted by: rubykate at February 2, 2007 01:53 PM
I haven't seen Gangs of New York, so I couldn't really say if it is good or not, but well, it IS set in New York....as well as Newsies, come to think of it. And well, West Side Story...
Posted by: funke at February 2, 2007 05:03 PM
Also Cinderella Man is supposed to be set in New York, but it's filmed in Toronto.
And I was also going to say Far and Away, but apparently that's set in Boston. Along with the Boondock Saints. You could skip Far and Away, but the Saints is worth watching, even if it isn't NY.
Posted by: funke at February 2, 2007 05:07 PM
Hey Funke--I looked up Gangs of New York on IMDB. I had read an allusion to its soundtrack on some blog or another, and I found that it uses shape-note hymns!!!!!!!!!! I haven't seen it either, but now I totally have to see it, and maybe incorporate it into my dissertation!
Woohoo! You helped me in my research!
Posted by: Jo at February 2, 2007 08:02 PM
Yippee!!
Posted by: funke at February 2, 2007 11:10 PM