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July 11, 2006
The NYT Discovers Queens with Dito Montiel
David Carr appears to be revisiting his prolific Oscar-season standard this week, following up Monday's Anna Wintour headscratcher with today's pleasant walking tour of Astoria with writer/director/raconteur Dito Montiel. Some of this background appeared on The Reeler last January when Montiel headed off to Sundance to premiere his debut film, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, but what kind of jealous am I that Carr got veritable door-to-door histories of Montiel's Queens locations:
“Give or take an ATM sign, this fruit store looks pretty much like it did when I grew up,” Mr. Montiel said. “You change the Korean to a Muslim and it’s the same.”
There is history, both personal and cinematic, every time we turn the corner.
At 32nd Street and 24th Avenue, Mr. Montiel looks up a hill.
“This is where they filmed that scene in Goodfellas where they shot the guy in the clubhouse,” he said, indicating a building partway up the slope. “One of my friends stole the lighting truck and smashed it up.”
"Great," say Montiel's distributors at First Look Pictures. "That's coming out of our opening weekend grosses."
Posted by stvanairsdale at July 11, 2006 08:35 AM
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