The New York Ripper (1982) Review
The New York Ripper (1982) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lucio Fulci made a giallo about a killer who murders women and quacks like a duck on the telephone. It was seized in Britain, refused certification…
Filming Location: New York
Films in this library shot in New York, the state whose city dominates, though upstate carries a substantial share. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
New YorkStreetwalkin’ (1985) Review
Streetwalkin' (1985) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A Concorde Pictures production shot in New York in about three weeks, with Melissa Leo in her first lead role eight years before her career started, and a structure…
New YorkMs. 45 (1981) Review
Ms. 45 (1981) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Abel Ferrara made a rape-revenge film with a mute protagonist, almost no dialogue and a budget of around sixty thousand dollars, and Zoe Lund's performance is better than…
LondonNighthawks (1981) Review
Nighthawks (1981) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Stallone and Billy Dee Williams are New York decoy cops assigned to an international terrorist, and Rutger Hauer is so much better than the film around him that he…
ChicagoLooking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) Review
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Diane Keaton plays a teacher of deaf children who spends her nights in bars, in a film that is genuinely good for ninety minutes and then…
New YorkTimes Square (1980) Review
Times Square (1980) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two teenage girls live rough in pre-cleanup Times Square and form a band, in a film that was recut against its director's wishes, had a relationship removed from…
BrooklynDo the Right Thing (1989) Review
Do the Right Thing (1989) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. One block in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the hottest day of the year, a pizzeria, a wall of photographs, and a film that refuses to tell the audience…
HarlemPrecious (2009) Review
Precious (2009) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A sixteen-year-old in Harlem in 1987 is transferred to an alternative school and learns to read. Gabourey Sidibe had never acted and Mo'Nique won Supporting Actress for a performance…
AlabamaGreen Book (2018) Review
Green Book (2018) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two excellent performances inside a road film about a Black concert pianist and his white driver on a 1962 southern tour, which beat Roma for Best Picture and…
Los AngelesMarriage Story (2019) Review
Marriage Story (2019) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two people who like each other are put through a divorce by a legal process neither of them wanted to use, in a film that opens with both…
FloridaCSI: Miami / CSI: NY – The Henry Darius Crossover (2005) Review
The Henry Darius crossover rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two episodes on two shows across two nights, bridged by a killer whose defining trait is that he moves. The premise is genuinely well engineered and the…
FloridaThe CSI Trilogy (2009) Review
The CSI Trilogy rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Three separately produced network shows ran one continuing investigation across three consecutive nights in 2009, with three production teams, three visual styles and one case. Nobody has attempted…