Slideshow
“FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD” – NEW YORK IN THE 70S
Through Thursday, July 27
Programmed by Bruce Goldstein
Original Daily News article with FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD headline (October 30, 1975)
New York City in the 1970s was perceived as a place of danger, decay, and paranoia, where people “didn’t get involved” — especially following high-profile crimes like the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese. Read more about the legacy of the Genovese murder here.
Reviews
“Offers several dozen movies about New York that were made in the ’70s and consistently showed a city with a fading pulse. One way or another, they depict a city spinning toward a hell.”
– Clyde Haberman, The New York Times. Read the full article here.
“A MAMMOTH THROWBACK TO A GRITTIER ERA OF CITY LIFE!”
– Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Times
“Celebrates New York at its 1970s scuzziest.”
– J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books
“Classic, history-making movies made during some of the city’s darkest years.”
– Bilge Ebiri, The Village Voice
“Takes you back to an NYC on the verge of implosion.”
– David Edelstein, New York Magazine
“One of the most fertile periods of filmmaking in cinematic history comes back to life!”
– Robert Levin, AM New York. Read the full July 5 cover story here.
“[In the 70s,] urban blight crossed paths with Hollywood’s new interest in true grit, creating a perfect storm of films that showed the city at its worst, its people at their most desperate.”
– Matt Prigge, Metro
“FABULOUS! The films shot on location in NYC in the 1970s have become relics of a very different New York: accidental documentaries of what the city once was.”
- Jason Bailey, Flavorwire
Films in this Series
1520.jpg)
Monday, July 10
WHERE’S POPPA?
12:30 4:00 7:30
BORN TO WIN
2:10 5:40 9:15
Wednesday, July 12
A NEW LEAF
12:30 4:30 8:30
SUCH GOOD FRIENDS
2:30 6:30
Monday, July 17
THE HOT ROCK
12:30 4:30 8:30
THE ANDERSON TAPES
2:30 6:30
Tuesday, July 18
INTERIORS
12:30 4:30 8:30
DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE
2:25 6:25
Wednesday, July 19
THE HOSPITAL
12:30 4:20 8:20
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
2:35 6:30
Thursday, July 20
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
2:35 7:55
EYES OF LAURA MARS
12:30 5:50 10:10
Tuesday, July 25
ACROSS 110TH STREET
12:30 4:20 8:10
COPS AND ROBBERS
2:30 6:20 10:10
Wednesday, July 26
DEATH WISH
12:30 4:30 9:15
DRESSED TO KILL
2:25 7:00
Thursday, July 27
THE WARRIORS
12:30 4:20 8:10
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
2:20 6:10 10:00