best film about a city?

[Johnny Canuck3]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Do The Right Thing

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Ghost Dog is also a great slice of urbanity. I checked, it was set in Jersey City. I love all those rooftop scenes

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Optimists of Nine Elms - sits very nicely alongside the London Nobody Knows.

 

[isitme]

In Bruges

Definetely agree with 'Roma- Citta Aperta' and I'd add 'Ladri Bi Biciclette' as well

 

[phildwyer]

City of God.

 

[Flashman]

In Bruges

Oh fuck yes. The alcoves. The noooks and crannies

Dead Man's Shoes - Matlock

(Bit tenuous but fuck it).

 

[badco]

24 Hour Party People

It's not really about a city is it?

 

[Madusa]

Paris J'taime.

 

[butchersapron]

Couple of Good Stalingrads
Paris is Ours by Rivette
Lndon Can Take it!/Fires were started - Humph Jennings

 

[Fedayn]

Brutti, sporchi cattivi.

 

[butchersapron]

Odd man Out, Belfast

 

[5t3IIa]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100449/

Bill Murray film is really good on New York City. It's not a romantic peon it's more about how they love and hate it and what they'll do to get out of it, but it won't let them.

 

[albionism]

City of God
Naked
Not really about London as such, but some
wonderful shots in The Ipcress File

 

[OneStrike]

Shooters - Liverpool.

 

[dlx1]

New Jack City
La Haine
London Kills Me

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

24 Hour Party People

this

 

[butchersapron]

Hands over the City - Rosi's Naples classic.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Wings of Desire?


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* on top of monument *

That is one beautiful film. I love the angels on the train, listening to everyone's private fears and inner turmoil. Beautiful. In a slightly different vein, 24 hour party people gives an elevated view of Manchester in the late eighties.

 

[DotCommunist]

Dark City

 

[ViolentPanda]

Berlin Schoenhauser Corner.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Couple of Good Stalingrads
Paris is Ours by Rivette
Lndon Can Take it!/Fires were started - Humph Jennings

NB. "Fires Were Started" was also released as "I Was A Fireman".

 

[butchersapron]

You just remined me - Berlin Alexender Plaztz

 

[goldenecitrone]

You just remined me - Berlin Alexender Plaztz

I saw a great film shot just before ww1, a day in the life of Berlin, 24 hours of people getting up and going about their business. Not sure if that's the one you've mentioned. Very resonant.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Another vote for La Haine.

 

[BlackArab]

25th Hour, Spike Lee's homage to his hometown post-9/11. The 'Fuck You' scene is especially powerful leaves a lump in my throat everytime I watch it.

 

[laptop]

I saw a great film shot just before ww1, a day in the life of Berlin, 24 hours of people getting up and going about their business. Not sure if that's the one you've mentioned. Very resonant.

Nope.

Berlin Alexanderplatz, Werner Rainer Fassbinder (made for TV but oh what TV!)

 

[ViolentPanda]

I saw a great film shot just before ww1, a day in the life of Berlin, 24 hours of people getting up and going about their business. Not sure if that's the one you've mentioned. Very resonant.

Was it "Berlin, symphony of a city"? That's about a "day in the life of" Berlin, but it was filmed in the 1920s.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Nope.

Berlin Alexanderplatz, Werner Rainer Fassbinder (made for TV but oh what TV!)

Ist fantastich!!
15 hours of great telly!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I wasn't a massive fan of Lost In Translation, but wasn't it an excellent depiction of Tokyo? Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet.

Also - Les 400 Coups and A Bout De Souffle, classic visions of Paris. One of those two is actually referenced in La Haine (the 'turning off' of the Eiffel Tower). I think it's 400 Coups. I can't remember as we studied them both on my French film course at uni

 

[dlx1]

25th Hour, Spike Lee's homage to his hometown post-9/11. The 'Fuck You' scene is especially powerful leaves a lump in my throat everytime I watch it.

good film = Edward Norton