The 25 Best Movies Set in New York City
By Nicole Johnson, Stacker News
On 6/14/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
New York City has long been the film industry s favorite city. Los Angeles beats the Big Apple by the sheer number of movies shot on location, but it s no secret the filmmakers have a longstanding love affair with New York. Its elements from buildings and bridges to yellow cabs and subways function as supporting characters in film, whether the Empire State Building in
King Kong or the Checker Cab in
Taxi Driver. On a grander scale, the city itself enjoys a leading role in dozens of fan favorites from
Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Black Swan’: Making a Case for Bringing Back Sacredness to Art Natalie Portman in her Oscar-winning performance in “The Black Swan.” (Niko Tavernise/Twentieth Century Fox)
Director Darren Aronofsky resurrected Mickey Rourke’s career with “The Wrestler,” and worked a similar boon of blessings for Natalie Portman in “Black Swan.” She won the Oscar for her performance, and she seemed in 2010 to have blossomed into the Meryl Streep of her generation. Natalie Portman as the White Swan in her shape-shifting, Oscar-winning performance as obsessive, delusional prima ballerina Nina Sayers in “The Black Swan.” (Niko Tavernise/Twentieth Century Fox)