Yonkers, NY. Also known as The City of Gracious Living and the Sixth Borough of NYC. Lots of movies filmed in Yonkers. I may need to get out more as I haven't heard of most of these:
Who Made Tony Soprano, A Journal for Jordan, Halston, The Irishman (my friend told me about this one), Cruise, Ben Is Back, Breakable You, The Book of Henry, The Drowning, Chuck, Paterson, Meadowland, Freeheld, Get Ready for Ricki, The Adderall Diaries, Still Alice, Presto......I did see Freedomland (2006) though as I remember them filming here. Starring Samuel L. Jackson they filmed parts in the Mulford Gardens Housing Project which was torn down years ago to make room for nicer townhouse style low-income housing. Lots of TV shows filmed in the Big YO as well. Not up on most of them either.
Don't know if this has anything to do with the City of Yonkers' obsession with mow your front grass and keep your sidewalks clean at all times as the movie scouts may be driving through. BTW the Yonkers property tax. You're killing me.
That is impressive. All we had here was 'Break Heart Pass' a couple years before I moved here. Charles Bronson - big hit with the locals,
ReplyDeletetreated them to Effie Burgers downtown (a hamburger the size of a
frying pan) Girl at the ammo plant had a walk through cameo and thoughts of becoming the next Marylin Monroe. Can we see Z-Man
doing stunts in any of the Yonkers films?
Yonkers prides itself on its filmography. Fairly popular among movie scouts. Maybe it's the pockets of squalor. Looks like the Bronx.
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ReplyDeleteSeveral famous ones
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- like Bus Stop with Marylin Monroe down in Sun Valley, Dante's Peak up in the Bitteroots and oddly Northwest Passage (1940) filmed in N and S Idaho, but representing the eastern Great Lakes. Not a movie fan, had to look them up. The lure is Idaho is a cheap place to operate, it is very mountainous, lot of snow, roaring rivers etc.
Breakheart Pass was the only local one. I didn't know Yonkers was
a movie lot. Do they need chefs?
As an Idahoan you can hold your head high.
ReplyDeleteMovie production apparently an important part of the Yonkers economy. On occasion I've seen the trailers parked alongside certain areas. You can bet there's lots of catering.
I guess 'Last Tango' was filmed in Paris, but cannot confirm it. We also note 'Lost in Yonkers' (1993- Richard Dreyfuss), but was it filmed there?
ReplyDeleteLast Tango has Paris locations definitely. I was wondering that too about "Lost in Yonkers."
ReplyDelete"Lost in Yonkers" - Yes filmed in Yonkers. Ludlow and Elm Street area. Without getting too technical according to Google "Last Tango In Paris" was "lusciously photographed on location around Paris by Vittorio Storaro." The vulgar language makes up for the lack of explicit sex hence NC-17.
ReplyDeleteIs Yonkers famous for anything else?
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm....currently 3rd largest city in NYS?
ReplyDeleteI'd have to consider Yonkers the Wild West of NYC. Fair enough?
ReplyDeleteThere's a chance you could get shot but you won't fall down in the tall weeds.
ReplyDeleteYour astute observation made me smile.
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