Scorsese Names His Essential New York Films

Few filmmakers are as inexorably linked with a city as Martin Scorsese is with New York. The master filmmaker, who grew up in the city’s Little Italy, has set more than a few of his films there and is very much a part of its cultural fabric.

Now, Scorsese has announced his essential New York films – almost thirty titles that don’t include his own career-defining NYC-set titles like “Mean Streets,” “Taxi Driver” and “Goodfellas”. Scorsese curated the list for the “Living, Breathing New York” series at the Roxy Cinema.

Scorsese blends classic and modern titles, has multiple works by Henry Hathaway, George Cukor, John Schlesinger, Sidney Lumet and the Safdies. Surprisingly there’s only one entry each from two fellow quintessential New Yorkers – Spike Lee and Woody Allen.

The list is as follows (in alphabetical order):

“A Double Life” (George Cukor)
“The Apartment” (Billy Wilder)
“Bad Lieutenant” (Abel Ferrara)
“Bye Bye Braverman” (Sidney Lumet)
“Cry of the City” (Robert Siodmak)
“Daybreak Express” (D.A. Pennebaker)
“Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee)
“Dog Day Afternoon” (Sidney Lumet)
“Fourteen Hours” (Henry Hathaway)
“The French Connection” (William Friedkin)
“Good Time” (Josh and Benny Safdie)
“Heaven Knows What” (Josh and Benny Safdie)
“It Should Happen to You” (George Cukor)
“Kiss of Death” (Henry Hathaway)
“Manhattan” (Woody Allen)
“Marathon Man” (John Schlesinger)
“The Marrying Kind” (George Cukor)
“Midnight Cowboy” (John Schlesinger)
“The Musketeers of Pig Alley” (D.W. Griffith)
“The Naked City” (Jules Dassin)
“Odds Against Tomorrow” (Robert Wise)
“On the Waterfront” (Elia Kazan)
“Prince of the City” (Sidney Lumet)
“Regeneration” (Raoul Walsh)
“Shadows” (John Cassavetes)
“Sweet Smell of Success” (Alexander Mackendrick)
“Uncut Gems” (Josh and Benny Safdie)
“The Wrong Man” (Alfred Hitchcock)

Scorsese’s list also included a caveat for “On the Waterfront” which he says he knows is set in New Jersey, but he counts it as a New York film.

The Roxy Cinema screenings are tied to promotion of Olmo Schnabel’s film “Pet Shop Days” which Scorsese executive produced.

Source: Indiewire

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