New York icon Martin Scorsese reveals its go-to-movies in The Big Apple.
The author cured the screening series “Living, Breathing New York” for Roxy Cinema, which contains views of four of his favorite NYC movies of a complete list of Scorsese 32 favorite movies from New York that he created and which IndieWire is proud to share below.
“Living, Breathing New York” is curated by Scorsese to celebrate the new edition of Olmo Schnabels NYC-Set Thriller, “Pet Shop Days,” that Scorsese Executive produced. The film Premiere on March 15 at Roxy Cinema in New York and stars Dario Yazbek Bernal and Jack Irv as two lovers whose whirlwind romance sends them down into a rabbit hole with drugs and ruin in Manhattan’s Underworld. Willem Dafoe (who Played in Olmo Schnabel’s father Julian Schnabel’s Vincent van Gogh Biopic “at Eternity’s Gate”), Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Sarsgaard, Maribel Verdú and Jordi Mollà star as well. This is Olmo Schnabel’s directorial debut.
And the first time filmmaker Schnabels ”Pet shop days“Calls more of Scorse’s favorite NYC classic, everything from Benny and Josh Safdie’s” Good Time “to Sidney Lumet’s” Dog Day afternoon. “
“There are so many” New York movie creators ” – everyone has their own individual vision,” Scorsese said in a press release. “I collaborated with the city when I made (my own films like) ‘Mean Streets’, ‘Taxi driver,’ ‘Raging Bull,’ ‘The King of Comedy’, ‘Goodfellas’, ” Bringing out The Dead ‘, and’ Wolf of Wall Street.
Scorsese also added some notes to its choices. According to the director, John Cassavete’s “Shadows” was a movie that “inspired a generation of future filmmakers, including me.” And Elia Kazan’s “On the Waterfront” is also listed despite being in New Jersey. “I know it’s the hobook but for me it’s a New York image,” Scorsese said.
Schnabel, Head of “Pet Shop Days”, told Indiewire that it is a “great honor” to be included in Scorsese’s list.
“I’m a New Yorker – I grew up here. Share my movie with a New York audience, what could be better than that? “Said Schnabel. “It is a great honor to be included in this group of New York film creators selected by Martin Scorsese. When you show your work, people see what you do and maybe even who you are. I look forward to this and welcome the experience. ”
“Living, Breathing New York” is presented by Utopia and Roxy Cinema. The limited series celebrates “Independent cinema, present and future.” For tickets, visit roxycinememewyork.com.
The program “Living, Breathing New York” is listed below, along with Scorsese’s choice for his 30 favorite New York movies. (Well, 32, because he gives a couple of two-by-a-selection.) The page below is his comments.
- “Daybreak Express” (Da Pennebaker)
- “The Naked City” (Jules Dassin)
- “Kiss of death” (Henry Hathaway)
- “Fourteen hours” (Henry Hathaway)
- “Cry of the City” (Robert Siodmak)
- “A Double Life” (George Cukor)
- “The Marrying Sort” (George Cukor)
- “It should happen to you” (George Cukor)
- “By the water” (Elia Kazan) *“Yes, I know it’s the hobook but for me it’s a New York image”
- “The Wrong Man” (Alfred Hitchcock)
- “Sweet smell of success” (Alexander Mackenrick)
- “Shadows” (John Cassavetes) *”The image that inspired a generation of future filmmakers, including me”
- “Midnight Cowboy” and “Marathon Man” (John Schlesinger)
- “The French Connection” (William Friedkin)
- “Bye bye Braverman”
- “Prince of the City” (Sidney Lumet)
- “Manhattan” (Woody Allen)
- “Bad Lieutenant” (Abel Ferrara)
- “Heaven knows what” (Josh and Benny Safdie)
- “Good time” (Josh and Benny Safdie)
- “Uncut gemstones” (Josh and Benny Safdie)
- “The apartment” (Billy Wilder)
- “Do the right thing” (Spike Lee)
- “Dog Day afternoon” (Sidney Lumet)
- “Manhattan” (Woody Allen)
- “Midnight Cowboy” (John Schlesinger)
- “The Musketeers of Pig Alley” (DW Griffith) and “Regeneration” (Raoul Walsh)
- “Odds Against Tomorrow” (Robert Wise)
- “By the water” (Elia Kazan)
- “Sweet smell of success” (Alexander Mackenrick)
“To live, breathe New York”
“Heaven knows what” (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, 2014, 97m, 35mm)
March 11 at 21:00
13 March at 21:00
March 16 at 17:00
“Sweet smell of success” (Alexander MacKendrick, 1957, 96m, DCP)
12 March at 19:00
“Shadows” (John Cassavetes, 1958, 87m, DCP)
March 13 at 19:00
March 16 at 15:00
March 19 at 19:00
“Take out the dead” (Martin Scorsese, 1999, 121m, 35mm)
20 March at 19:30
21 March at 17:00
March 22 at. 22.15
March 26 at 19:00
