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NYC Nostalgic Myopia

Trying to drum up a story, the New York Times insults recent films shot in NYC:

David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, said: "There's been a sea change. I can remember well into the 70's films where there is the terrific sense of New York as being this adventurous place. Certainly if you go back to the 30's and think of a film like 'My Man Godfrey,' New York is a great, dangerous playground. Those films really had a sense of how jazzy and exciting it was to be in New York. I can't think of the last film I've seen that had that feeling."

Paul Mazursky, the Brooklyn-born director of New York films like "Next Stop, Greenwich Village" (1976) and "An Unmarried Woman" (1978), echoed this view: "I'm trying to think of the last good New York movie." (He's still thinking.)

--New York City as Film Set: From Mean Streets to Clean Streets - New York Times

I don't know guys; off the top of my head: Raising Victor Vargas (2002), Boiler Room (2000), Inside Man (2006), Keane (2004), Rodger Dodger (2002), The Squid and the Whale (2005). Maybe the author of The Frikkin' Biographical Dictionary of Film should actually see some.

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