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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.
Moonstruck (1987) | Carroll Gardens & Park Slope
Norman Jewison’s romantic comedy of a thirtysomething widow Loretta Castorini (Cher) who finds love again with a one-handed baker Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage) exists, according to Roger Ebert, “in a Brooklyn that has never existed, a Brooklyn where the full moon makes the night like day and drives people crazy with amore, when the moon-a hits their eyes like a big-a pizza pie.” But the film also takes place in a real Brooklyn, mostly around Brooklyn Heights and Carroll Gardens. In fact, as Odelia Bitton reported in the Brooklyn Eagle, the film’s characters were renamed to fit the locations: “While the original movie script contained another name for the characters played by Nicholas Cage and his on-screen brother, Johnny, played by Danny Aiello, it was soon replaced by Cammareri. Indeed, it was already plastered on the bakery’s trucks and store sign. Also available were two real-life bakers at Cammareri Brothers who got to play those roles alongside Cage.”
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