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Posted October 05, 2010 to photo album "Made in Brooklyn: A Slide show of films about Brooklyn"
For directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, filming It’s Kind of a Funny Story in Brooklyn was essential to the story. It was a choice many filmmakers before them made as well.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) | Gravesend
On 22 August 1972, John Wojtowicz (assisted by Salvatore Naturile) entered the Chase Manhattan Bank in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn with the intention of robbing it and getting enough money for his lover, Ernest Aron, to get a sex-change operation. The actual bank is now a medical imaging center. While Sidney Lumet didn’t use the actual bank for his 1975 drama Dog Day Afternoon, he kept the film in Brooklyn, using a converted garage in Flatbush to double for the bank’s exteriors. The sense of place has been an essential element Lumet (especially in capturing the “real” New York in films like The Pawn Broker, Serpico and Prince of the City). Indeed that ineffable Brooklyn feel that Lumet captures was recognized by Vincent Canby in his New York Times review when he wrote, “it's beautifully acted by performers who appear to have grown up on the city's sidewalks in the heat and hopelessness of an endless midsummer.”
The World's End
We Steal Secrets
Closed Circuit
The Deep
The Place Beyond The Pines
Greetings from Tim Buckley
Admission
Promised Land
Anna Karenina
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
Pride & Prejudice
The Pianist
Gosford Park