Top 5 Movies Per City

Simple theme. Movies where you feel the city the movie is based is important to the film.

I’ll start first with L.A.

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Chinatown
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
4. LA Confidential
5. Swingers

Just missed: Training Day, Heat, Collateral, Beverly Hills Cop

Also Los Angeles:

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Heat
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Collateral
5. Boogie Nights

Chinatown is tough to leave out.

Paris

Amélie Poulain (Jeunet)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Hugo (Scorcese)
Inception (Nolan)
Inglorious Basterds (Tarantino)

and many others, especially in French.

NYC

Goodfellas
Serpico
Taxi Driver
The Warriors
Do The Right Thing

And, another 5 for good Measure

The Godfather (Trilogy)
Saturday Night Fever
Ghostbusters
Death Wish
Along Came Polly

The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter

? What city is influential to the story and another 4 from that city?

Quote from: riffraff on March 29, 2021, 09:56:59 AM

The Deer Hunter

? What city is influential to the story and another 4 from that city?

Just my opinion, but the steel mill town sort of defines the personalities of many of the characters. I think it's in Pittsburgh, but don't really remember.

Quote from: So Cruel on March 29, 2021, 02:31:56 PM

Quote from: riffraff on March 29, 2021, 09:56:59 AM

The Deer Hunter

? What city is influential to the story and another 4 from that city?

Just my opinion, but the steel mill town sort of defines the personalities of many of the characters. I think it's in Pittsburgh, but don't really remember.

Ya, it’s been so long that I’ve seen that movie that I can’t remember also. Will have to give it a re-watch

Quote from: riffraff on March 29, 2021, 03:53:44 PM

Quote from: So Cruel on March 29, 2021, 02:31:56 PM

Quote from: riffraff on March 29, 2021, 09:56:59 AM

The Deer Hunter

? What city is influential to the story and another 4 from that city?

Just my opinion, but the steel mill town sort of defines the personalities of many of the characters. I think it's in Pittsburgh, but don't really remember.

Ya, it’s been so long that I’ve seen that movie that I can’t remember also. Will have to give it a re-watch

It's set in a small working-class town in PA called Clairton.

Simple theme. Movies where you feel the city the movie is based is important to the film.

I’ll start first with L.A.

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Chinatown
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
4. LA Confidential
5. Swingers

Just missed: Training Day, Heat, Collateral, Beverly Hills Cop

For me Lebowski's setting was never that vital.  Those other ones, the time/era is just as important as the physical city.
I'll add Repo Man for early 80's punk LA.

Paris

Amélie Poulain (Jeunet)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Hugo (Scorcese)
Inception (Nolan)
Inglorious Basterds (Tarantino)

and many others, especially in French.

So many for Paris.  My top pick is Godard's Breathless.

Quote from: So Cruel on March 29, 2021, 04:36:50 PM

Quote from: riffraff on March 29, 2021, 03:53:44 PM

Quote from: So Cruel on March 29, 2021, 02:31:56 PM

Quote from: riffraff on March 29, 2021, 09:56:59 AM

The Deer Hunter

? What city is influential to the story and another 4 from that city?

Just my opinion, but the steel mill town sort of defines the personalities of many of the characters. I think it's in Pittsburgh, but don't really remember.

Ya, it’s been so long that I’ve seen that movie that I can’t remember also. Will have to give it a re-watch

It's set in a small working-class town in PA called Clairton.

Must be close to Pittsburgh...

Can't think of 5 films set there, but Trainspotting and Edinburgh.

Quote from: So Cruel on March 29, 2021, 12:23:52 AM

Simple theme. Movies where you feel the city the movie is based is important to the film.

I’ll start first with L.A.

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Chinatown
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
4. LA Confidential
5. Swingers

Just missed: Training Day, Heat, Collateral, Beverly Hills Cop

For me Lebowski's setting was never that vital.  Those other ones, the time/era is just as important as the physical city.
I'll add Repo Man for early 80's punk LA.

Whole heartedly disagree about Lebowski. That movie IS L.A.

Just look at the Strangers opening monologue.

“They call Los Angeles the City of
Angels. I didn't find it to be that
exactly, but I'll allow as there are
some nice folks there. 'Course, I
can't say I seen London, and I never
been to France, and I ain't never
seen no queen in her damn undies as
the fella says. But I'll tell you
what, after seeing Los Angeles and
thisahere story I'm about to unfold..

Now this story I'm about to unfold
took place back in the early nineties--
just about the time of our conflict
with Sad'm and the Eye-rackies. I
only mention it 'cause some- times
there's a man--I won't say a hee-ro,
'cause what's a hee-ro?--but sometimes
there's a man.

And I'm talkin' about the Dude here--
sometimes there's a man who, wal,
he's the man for his time'n place,
he fits right in there--and that's
the Dude, in Los Angeles.”

The Big Lebowski in a nut shell is about The Dude in L.A. The city is his backdrop. That opening scene with tumbleweed takes you throughout the city. The movie takes him all over the area - Where he lives in Venice, to the Big Lebowski’s in Beverly Hills, to the drop off in the canyon, to Jackie Treehorns in Malibu, to the mighty Pacific where Donny’s ashes are spread.

Quote from: MPare1966 on March 29, 2021, 06:18:30 AM

Paris

Amélie Poulain (Jeunet)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Hugo (Scorcese)
Inception (Nolan)
Inglorious Basterds (Tarantino)

and many others, especially in French.

So many for Paris.  My top pick is Godard's Breathless.

The best Paris movie on my list is Amélie, but Hugo is a very good film too. Highly recommend.