Films of New York in the 1970s

Gloria seconded. I was shocked to see that everything that was good about Leon was lifted from this movie.

And then there's Born to Win, a junkie drama similar in tone to Gridlock'd except for the crappy moralistic ending. George Segal looked so run-down that I didn't recognize him till the end credits.

I have to check out Born to Win, that sounds pretty cool.

amateurist, BITE ME! ;)

I swear this is the most relevant thread to post something about Shamus from '73--John Lindsay gets a thank-you in the credits. (No Burt Reynolds thread, surprisingly.) I watched it tonight for the first time in 30+ years. It played on TV regularly in the late-'70s, when "viewer discretion" + Dyan Cannon would have been an overpowering incentive for me. It's a complete cipher, but tonight it seemed interesting for various reasons. 1) I know star-centered films are still churned out, but I'm not quite sure what today's equivalent would be for this one. Reynolds must be on screen for 97% of the duration. Absent him, there's no movie. 2) At least two or three pointed allusions to The Big Sleep, including Reynolds bedding down a knockout bookstore clerk in glasses. 3) Cinematography (pretty ordinary, I'd say) by Victor J. Kemper, who also did Husbands, The Candidate, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Gambler, Dog Day Afternoon, Mickey and Nicky, etc. 4) Dyan Cannon giggling. Love her.

Finally saw Times Square last week (shot in '79), a true time capsule. You can nearly smell the pee.

Death Wish obv.

Cheating, cos they're earlier, but I thought of them immediately when I saw this thread's title: just about any Cassavetes, and wasn't A Woman Under The Influence 70s? Think so. The Incident ('66, Martin Sheen and Tony Musante take over a subway car full of citizens, for kicks, not for ransom), Panic In Needle Park, Mikey and Nicky, and (despite the cute title)
The Little Fugitive http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046004/reviews

Also (prob 80s) Q, The Winged Serpent: nest in the Chrysler Building, Michael Moriarty as a loosey-goosey junkie, David Carradine as Dragnet-type cop (yeah, they switched)

Off by a year or two, but...Downtown '81

Amos Poe, The Foreigner, 1978

http://www.screenslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/020512-Foreigner-Post.jpg

and of course, Rome '78, starring the cream of No Wave, giving all the Nooo Yawwwwk attitude they felt like

http://archive.fashion156.com/i_uploads/20110526/fashion156-Rome78-1.jpg

A Woman Under The Influence is set in LA, Mikey and Nicky in Philly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/movies/blank-generation-amos-poe.html

Amos Poe lost control of his documentary about the music scene that spawned artists like Blondie and Talking Heads after a dispute with Ivan Kral, the guitarist who made the movie with him.

That's an article from 2020. Does anyone know whether the streaming versions of Blank Generation are the original version with credit to Poe and Kral, or the more recent Kral estate version with Poe's name deleted and the film ending changed ?