NYC's Celluloid Skyline
Mia Farrow, with Roman Polanski and the crew looming behind her. From a New York Magazine photo essay about cinema shot on the streets of New York. Read the text by Logan Hill.
Architect James Sanders wrote one of my favorite film books of recent years, a love letter to New York City and the city as seen in cinema dreams, called CELLULOID SKYLINE. Filled with photos and highly readable film scholarship, it's one of the best books about the metropolist that's inspired everything from romantic fables to futuristic doom.
Now Sanders has edited SCENES FROM THE CITY: FILMMAKING IN NEW YORK FROM 1966-2006, which will have movie fans tracking down the locations where Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee and others made their signature movies.