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New York Makes the Movies … - Vulture

New York Makes the Movies … - Vulture

New York Makes the Movies … - Vulture
Dec 06, 2021 1 min, 19 secs

But a big New York movie was playing on a big New York screen to a big New York audience, and, at least for a moment, it all made perfect sense.

Because New York is where the movies were born and reborn — and where they almost died, over and over again.

The early years of cinema often meant breathtaking glimpses of the awesome city rapidly growing around these nascent filmmaking operations: an army of workmen digging the foundation of a skyscraper, a parade of officials inaugurating the Williamsburg Bridge, a shipload of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island.

A burgeoning independent movement — fed by the international cinema on movie screens, the art world rising downtown, and the underground films showing in basements around the city — forged a grittier aesthetic that, in turn, transformed the mainstream and saved a moribund Hollywood.

Just as the “Movie Brat” generation of directors (Scorsese, Coppola, and De Palma among them) were revitalizing American cinema in the ’70s, much of New York was falling into disrepair and chaos, making it an even more compelling cinematic subject.

The fate of the city and the fate of cinema seem inextricably, almost mystically, intertwined.

Such a future would not only have dealt a death blow to cinema; it would have dealt a death blow to the city, where people come to be around others.

New York is at once the loneliest city and the most crowded.

If the crowd went away — as it sometimes does, as it did last year — cinema would cease to be cinema, and New York would cease to be New York.

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