ON BROADWAY  2019  82 minutes Released just before the pandemic shut public venues down for over a year, this buoyant documentary by Oren Jacoby offers an overview of Broadway from its nadir in the late 60s to the present. With...

NEW YORK ON-SCREEN   THE APARTMENT  1960  125 minutes   Vienna-born director Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, Stalag 17, Some Like It Hot), was known for nothing if not his sardonic style and this film is considered one of...

MAN ON WIRE (2008)  94 minutes If this documentary comes across as a heist film, it is totally intentional, because when Phillipe Petit set out to tight-rope walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974 -- it was an...

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2006 109 minutes This look into the New York fashion world has both a sparkle and a distinct edge. The sparkle comes from Anne Hathaway, who plays a just-out-of-school journalist working for the editor of a...

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK 2018 117 minutes Based on the novel by James Baldwin and set in the early 70s Harlem, this film tells the story of Tish and Fonnie, two childhood friends who have started a romantic relationship....

BELL, BOOK and CANDLE,  1958 106 minutes It takes a lot to make New Yorkers flinch, and in Christmastime Greenwich Village, a circle of witches amidst the Beatniks and Bohemians raises nary an eyebrow. If anything, buttoned-down publisher James Stewart...

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE 1993 139 minutes For a man who has made his name depicting the gritty underside of New York, it would seem strange that Martin Scorcese would want to adapt Edith Wharton’s novel about polite society in...

MOONSTRUCK 1987 102 minutes With broad, vibrant brushstrokes, Norman Jewison directed this film starring Cher as an Italian-American widow faced with a second chance at love. Set in Brooklyn Heights amidst a tradition-bound family, Cher’s character is engaged to Danny...

THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 1999, 113 minutes As cinematic confections go, the two Thomas Crown Affairs are notable in that they are windows into the times that made them. The first film, released in 1968 and set in Boston with...

THE AUTOMAT 2021 79 minutes Before there was McDonald’s, before there was Howard Johnson’s, there was Horn & Hardart’s Automat, once the largest restaurant chain in America. The Automats were essentially cafeterias with food portions behind coin-operated glass doors, which...

RADIO DAYS 1987, 88 minutes To do a New York On-Screen series without a Woody Allen film is like depicting FDR without the cigarette holder or the Titanic without the Iceberg. Toxic analogies aside, he is obviously a problematic figure, but seeing...

THE THIN MAN 1934, 91 minutes For the week before Valentine’s Day, we screened a number of films depicting a romantic New York. We decided to go with a classic involving a married couple whose chemistry is so engaging and...