Andrew Saxe,
Denise George, state of
Eric Fox Hays,
Gabriel Heads,
Jeff Winkler,
Jorge Fabregas,
Karin Justman,
Kristine Kreska,
Lisa Lutz, state of
Martin L. O’Neal,
Miles Malone, birthplace unspecified, American porn star
Nina Jurna, Arnheim, The Netherlands, journalist
Noah Beggs,
Spencer Emmons, birthplace unspecified, American stage manager
Tim Story,
What a great job “location scout” sounds like. You go around and look at places, and take pictures, and take notes. What could be more fun?
I’m trying to recall some of my favorite tri-state area locations from the pictures Today’s Winner has been involved with. From Amateur, there is the hazy boundary where
At the posh end of things, from Birth, there’s the very specific social and architectural microclimate of Central Park South, plus its adjacent pathways and playgrounds. Also there’s the downtown ATM that requires the blood and sinew of fresh kittens for dessert in American Psycho. And out on a lesser wavelength of the social spectrum, there’s that wonderful neighborhood where the proles live like trolls in the shadow of the
Most vividly, to my memory, from Little Odessa, there are all those wonderful grotty storefronts and vacant lots in
So, well-done Andrew Saxe. Like Pale Male the
To the folks who may read this, I invite your comments in two areas:
A) What’s your favorite use of
B) Are there any locations, in your hometown or elsewhere, that haven’t been put to use in a movie yet (that you know of), but should be?
I'll get the ball rolling...so many favorite New York locations, places I can't pass without recalling the movies they inspired. I'm especially obsessed with
ReplyDelete- The rump end of Smith Street, where De Niro may or may not be trying to lure Lorraine Bracco to her death at the end of GoodFellas
- The block of Seventh Avenue that includes the ravishing tracking shot at the end of Broadway Danny Rose...I saw it again recently, on a standard-def TV no less, and it literally did ravish me, whatever that means
- The way they set up an eerily empty Fifth Avenue at the start of Breakfast at Tiffany's is completely beyond reproach, unlike some other aspects of that film
- The grief-stricken children on the steps of the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in Fort Greene Park in Crooklyn; I can choke myself up just thinking about them
I could go on. Man, could I ever go on. Your turn, though.
I'll be looking forward to seeing the Keanu Reeves movie (yes, I said it) Henry's Crime, perhaps only to see if the scenes shot at the Freeport Recreation Center made the cut. It's written by Sasha Gervasi, by the way.
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