12 directors — including Mario Von Peebles, Radha Blank, and Adam McKay — on their favorite New York City movies
Photo: Lion International Films Ask a director behind one of your favorite New York movies about what inspired their cinematic portrait of the city and they’ll inevitably talk about another New York movie. Adam McKay will go on about a Martin Scorsese film, Radha Blank will pay tribute to John Cassavetes, Mario Van Peebles will celebrate Spike Lee.
Peter Ramsey on The Sweet Smell of Success The Sweet Smell of Success captures my fantasy of the classic New York more than anything else: the attitude, the edge, the darkness, the sharp attitude, the wit that I associate with New York. I first encountered it in the early nineties, when a friend quoted some lines from it.
AB: Another movie that also kind of has an interesting influence on Half Nelson: Pete Sollett made a short film called Five Feet High and Rising that turned into Raising Victor Vargas. We saw that before we made Half Nelson, and it was a little bit of an inspiration to turn Half Nelson into a short because Sollett had taken a short into a feature film. It also explores kids living in this New York community in a really observational, fun way.
Daisy Von Scherler Mayer on The Brother From Another Planet There’s that incredible sequence when they’re walking through Harlem at night and the Rastafarian is introducing him to this world, and it’s like we’re getting to see this world as if we were aliens, and how crazy it is. I love that. I would actually cite that movie as an inspiration, in a way, for The Guru.
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