Thursday nights in January, TCM will be showing great old movies set in either New York City or Los Angeles. Each night, the films will concentrate on similar themes mostly (crime noir, showbiz, romance) and will show how these things existed in these two great, distinct towns back in the day. Some of the movies they'll show include Anchors Away and On the Town (covering the sailors on shore leave genre), Shaft and The Big Sleep, Annie Hall and Modern Romance, and many others. In between these movies, with short documentaries about the films and filmmakers.
New Yorkers like me have a lot of fun "dissing" LA but instead of trying to prove one city as superior to the other I will just say that both have their virtues and flaws, their pros and their cons, and aren't we lucky to live in a country where New York people and LA people can co-exist? And ever the twains shall meet.
P.S. In tribute to the great city of Los Angeles, New York City's West Coast counterpart, here's a great song by Aimee Mann about that most LA thing, the freeway!
P.S. Can you name the great New York-born director who this picture in 1945 when FDR died? He directed some of the greatest movies ever ... and his films be included in this series.
New Yorkers like me have a lot of fun "dissing" LA but instead of trying to prove one city as superior to the other I will just say that both have their virtues and flaws, their pros and their cons, and aren't we lucky to live in a country where New York people and LA people can co-exist? And ever the twains shall meet.
P.S. In tribute to the great city of Los Angeles, New York City's West Coast counterpart, here's a great song by Aimee Mann about that most LA thing, the freeway!
P.S. Can you name the great New York-born director who this picture in 1945 when FDR died? He directed some of the greatest movies ever ... and his films be included in this series.
I like New York and LA equally but differently. LA is gorgeous during the day but NYC is best experienced at night.
ReplyDeleteAnnie Hall portrays both cities perfectly.