While the Cannes Film Festival is currently underway in the south of France, one of the darlings of last year’s fest, James Gray’s The Immigrant, is only just making its way across the pond for a domestic release. Starring Marion Cotillard as the titular Polish émigré who arrives at Ellis Island in 1921, it is just the latest example of cinema taking advantage of the historical beauty of New York City, arguably the most popular metropolitan setting in film history (only Los Angeles, London, and Paris can really dispute this claim). From the earliest days of moviemaking through to the CGI-saturated superhero tales of our contemporary times, The Big Apple and its five boroughs (the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island) have been utilized for all manner of mainstream, independent, and genre cinema. In that spirit, with The Immigrant releasing this Friday, I count down my ten favourite movies set in New York, New York.
Cinema Charchuk 