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Joan Crawford gets top billing as star for the first time in The Taxi Dancer (1927) as Joslyn Poe, who dances her way from her poor Virginia background to struggling for success in New York […]
Director Whit Stillman’s charming, quirky 1990 drawing-room comedy of preppy manners among New York’s late Eighties privileged classes boasts a witty, erudite Oscar nominated Best Original Screenplay by début writer/director Stillman and sharp playing by a […]
Writer-director Francis Ford Coppola’s welcome 1967 New York comedy You’re a Big Boy Now is delightfully quirky and amusing. Peter Kastner stars as innocent, over-cossetted 19-year-old virgin Bernard Chanticleer (Kastner), called Big Boy by his parents, […]
Writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s 2000 film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actress. It won the Sundance 2000 Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, the New York Film […]
Abel Ferrara stars in his own notorious, cheaply made ($20,000) and extremely disturbing 1979 horror film as Reno Miller, a psychotic, hallucinating New York frustrated artist, who lives with two room-mates, Carol Slaughter (Carolyn Marz) and Pamela […]
Here is director Michael Winner’s third and last Death Wish movie, with Charles Bronson back on the vigilante beat as New York City architect Paul Kersey for more of the same ugly revenge thrills. With his […]
Mixing crime, romance and comedy, director Jonathan Demme’s crazed 1986 thriller is perhaps the best of the cycle of mid-Eighties yuppie-in-peril movies. Jeff Daniels stars as businessman Charles Driggs, a very proper, middle-class man who decides […]