The New York City Movie Draft, With Griffin Newman and David Sims!

23:23Any stray Subway thoughts before we figure out our draft order? Well, I asked if Gotham was eligible for this draft, and you said no, Gotham City. Gotham is not a real city. Right, it's not a real city. It's a city in the world of Batman, who is not a real person. You don't know that. Is anyone here Batman tonight? Is Batman here? So Joker's not eligible for Subway. For anything. I mean, I don't think so. What do you, you want Gotham to be a part of the draft for tonight? No, I don't. I was just stirring things up. Hold on though. Hold on because we have precedent. Dark Knight. It's a Chicago movie.

24:02Was it eligible in the Chicago draft? I don't even, did it get drafted? You guys know better than we do. Yeah. It did. Who drafted it? I think I did. Tracy Letts? No, I did. Tracy Letts has not seen it. I don't think he's seen Dark Knight. But he owns the blue, right? Tracy, the trench run sucks.

24:20he just he just tossed that take out he was just like oh by the way trench run we all agree that star wars has a shitty ending waiting for you guys to jump in that was a good even with the hand yeah yeah he's good he love you tracy he has won pulitzer's and tony awards and the first line of his obituary will be guy who said the trench run sucks has died Stop. We love you, Tracy. There's no respect for gold leader. He's doomed to appear in a Disney Plus show about the trench run from a guy working on the Death Stars perspective. No! Fuck! Why do we even have a trench? How did he make this shot?

25:02Jack, you might have to delete all this. Speaking of Jack, we have to set our draft order. Yeah. So let's do that. Jack, can you tell us what kind of hat is being used tonight? unfortunately a new york metropolitan's hat yeah bring pete back you don't want to come out you don't want a shining moment i can see jack any cost i'm with you i want to bring people people like the voice of god all right we love you all right here we go no top gun hat shout bobby wagner in the building where are you wave bob i can't see oh there he is hi bob i'm seeing where is he i'm not worried about this you can see the mustache in the shadow yeah i had dinner with bobby last night he told me specifically to rig this draft for cr and in fact he has the first pick all right well everyone welcome elizabeth this is so official selecting second amanda dobbins

26:14Third will be Griffin Newman. Right. Wow. Fourth, Sean. Fifth. Oh, but you get the turn. I'm right where I want to be, baby. Yeah, I was going to say. All right. So we're going to draft. Do you know, do you, in your heart of hearts, did you think there was always a first pick? There was always a place I was going to go. Well, so do you want to mention that Blockbuster is a$50 million threshold? So it makes it a slightly tighter category. But the film I'm going to pick while I'm picking it in Blockbuster is also just the one that I think reflects my experience in New York the most. Raging Bull.

26:54And it is Die Hard with a Vengeance. Wow.

27:02A great pick. I worked tirelessly as a mime in Central Park. And you have no idea what taxi cabs would do to get across the park. No, this is, we just did this on Rewatchables recently. I saw it on a big screen recently. It is such an incredible beat for beat action movie set fully within the rules of New York City to the extent that, you know, the Sawmill River Parkway works that way. And features so much of the city. So I thought it was just like a great big canvas. And also I get a blockbuster. I think they're looking furiously for Die Hard with a Vengeance. Are you serious? No one saw that coming as the first overall pick.

27:45Did you know Martin Scorsese was born here? Yeah. I'll get Scorsese's down the line. I'll get all sorts of stuff down the line. There are 13 of them. There are more dirty cops than there are picks to pick from here. I can only get John McClane. following an ambulance down an avenue once. Are you like, how do you feel? I'm torn here because I definitely thought he was going to pick another movie first pick and I want it. And I do also, there's a strategic thing here, right? Where I am going to have to wait for a while and there are some films I want that I know you two in particular will also want.

28:26Wow. Elizabeth is asking how to spell vengeance she's like what movie is this for the first overall I really love this movie what are you talking about I love this movie I would never take it they had like 3 ,000 cards printed and then we went off you can still have Home Alone 2 it's okay

28:45I know you love the supporting cast in that film do you remember do you remember we did I want to say it was the 2013 movie draft and CR out of nowhere took Iron Man 3 first overall. Great movie. Best Marvel movie. Best Marvel movie. We were in, it was in COVID and Amanda and I were just like, dog, what? And then, what happened to this podcast? Went to the moon, man. Okay. Okay, Die Hard with a Vengeance. So Amanda, you have a choice and that's going in Blockbuster. Yes. Okay. I am, there's one, these are both from my heart but there's one that would be more strategically advantageous. And then there's one that I just have to have.

29:29And I have learned doing this with these psychos for so many years. You got to take what you want. So in Subway, I will be taking a movie with a pivotal Subway scene. In many ways, it is the inciting drama of the film. And that is Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha. Wow. Wow. This is a crazy story. What is going on? This is crazy. This is not where I thought you were going in that ramp up. I love that movie. It is one of my favorite movies of the last 10 years, of my lifetime. I was, okay, good. We got that one. Yeah, thank you so much. Frances Ha was lickety split. That was right there. Elizabeth knew what was coming.

30:13She's nimble. I am a bomb back devotee, as are you. And I remember watching Kicking and Screaming in college and being like, I wish I could be that smart. and then Francis Ha was released in 2013, I guess, here, but I was one year older than Francis Ha when it was released, and I was also living in Brooklyn, and I have not had a professional dance career or even a semi-professional dance career, but yeah, that's true, and the choreography is quite promising. But I was also flailing. And so the magic of that movie is that it is both the most magical New York of the movies and of my mind that I imagined before I lived here and also the New York that I experienced.

31:10And it's, I mean, it's beautiful. It's my favorite. So if you haven't seen it, I recommend it. And what's the subway scene? I was going to say the same thing. It is when Mickey Sumner it is when Sophie tells Francis that she's moving in with Patch. Yeah. And there lies all the problems, you know? Yeah, it's just, I love that movie. And then Francis takes the subway alone. Did we, like, teleport to the fifth round of this draft? Like, what is going on? You love Francis Haas. I do love it. I think it's an absolute masterpiece. But this is two picks in a row that I just did not see coming. Okay, well, fine.

31:43Take Goodfellas. Go ahead. I'm going to take Goodfellas for God's sake. All right. All right. And Oscar winner, I'll take Goodfellas. It's not your pick, Sean. God damn it. Do it.

31:57Griffin.

32:01Dude, you're the funniest thing ever. Be a legend. But you have something loaded that wasn't that. Maybe not. I had a big three and none of them have been taken yet. Right. I'm a little surprised. DH with a V is not in your big three? It was four. I do want to say. It was four. All right. It was on the board. It was on the board. DH with a V has a great subway scene. I had that on my subway. I would have drafted in Blockbuster was my strategy there. Just tell us what they are. Just list all of them. No. No. I am going to in Oscar winner draft Dog Day Afternoon. Okay. Okay. Good one. Oh, sure. It is less of a strategic play and more, if I look deep into my soul, that is my knee-jerk greatest New York movie of all time answer.

32:58Good pick. Lumet, your favorite guy. Lumet, one of my absolute favorites, one of the great New York directors, and I think a little undersung in the canon of the great New York directors and made so many great New York masterpieces. Not on this show. But it's, I'm going to say it, it is kind of the ultimate New York City as a character movie. The three-ring circus of that film, the way it is all about this city reacting to the central drama. It's the fucking best. It rules. It's about New York Rooting for an Underdog, too. It's got that spirit. It's one of the great Outerboro movies, which I thought of as like, pitching that as a category, like Outerboro.

33:37Outerboro. We thought of all five boroughs. That would have been crazy. We talked about that. That would have been hard. King of Staten Island, number one overall for Chris. Right, yeah. still on the board for you potentially. Are you including, do you think of Long Island as part of this larger project here? I don't. That's the bridge and tunnel draft. That's a different draft. I think there are, that's a different draft. Tri-City. How dare you? Tri-state area draft. How dare you, New York snob? I left Goodfellas for you. You did. Thank you so much. I will be taking Goodfellas. Thank you.

34:10Long Island is not New York City. It's just not. It's a different part. We're kind of okay with that, but not really. Goodfellas, though, wow. There is plenty of Long Island in Goodfellas, actually. There really is. In fact, you could say it's more of a Long Island film than a New York film. Well, I would argue it is more of an Outer Burroughs film as well. In fact, most of what we see is in Brooklyn and Queens. In fact, a lot of those scenes in bars and in diners where we constantly see Jimmy and Henry talking, that is actually a New York that I'm very familiar with, that I visited as a kid, that I felt exposed to.

34:44It was not the Empire State Building. It was not the Statue of Liberty. It was where regular people lived. And everyone in Goodfellas is regular, right? I think that they're perfectly nice people. And I think everything that they did was fine. Lufthansa was just asking to get heisted.

35:04We should clarify that Oscar winner is for a winner in any category. Any category. Because Goodfellas famously did not win Best Picture. It lost to Dances with Wolves, which we all agree was okay. But Joe Pesci did win for a supporting actor for an amazing performance in that movie. And Oscar winner is a pretty robust category, but it feels like a nice place to put Goodfellas. So that's what I'm doing. Very original. Good job. Just win, baby. That's the goal. Yeah, I'm going to be pretty regular, I think, to start off. Do the right thing in drama, please. Come on.

35:42Which is With Dog Day Afternoon Is the number one Like New York City As a character movie Right And like Is It's interesting It's like It's sort of about a city That's not here anymore But it's also not Like that It's got that magic to it still Yeah The best The best One of the best movies ever made It's an easy pick It's in blue Look there's colors We each have our own color Oh, fuck. Yeah, I guess. No, that's not how it works. No, that's not possible. What's going on here? Because they don't know. Yeah, it's just, you know. It's just fun. Okay. Got different colors. Yeah, do the right thing.

36:19Sad story of an innocent pizza guy who has his day ruined. I'm joking. I'm joking.

36:29I'm so sorry. Business owners. That was good. Just making some pies. That's a description in the Christmas Adventurers movie guide. I know the crowd. I know the crowd. I'm playing too. And then some pro trash shows up. Yeah. That's also a reference to the film One Battle After Another, guys. I do not think that. Yeah. Maybe the most iconic New York movie. Right? In the conversation. Up there. It's definitely up there. And then in Brooklyn movie? Best Brooklyn movie? Best Brooklyn movie. Yeah. Sure. I mean, Dog Day Afternoon is Brooklyn as well. Is it? Yeah. Never seen it. Not your kind of thing.

37:03You wouldn't like it. And then in Blockbuster, I want Men in Black. Wow. which is the best New York blockbuster ever made and is the number one. I bet she doesn't have this. I bet she doesn't either. She's going to get it because I drafted it. She does. Oh, yes. Elizabeth in black. Elizabeth comes prepared. The long list for this draft was 467 movies. And we have cards for every single one. Except die hard with a. Except for one. the first pick. We have cards for, like, The Crowd by King Vidor or whatever. We had to fly a separate plane in to get all the cards. But we did not see DH with a V coming.

37:48This movie came out in 1997. I lived in England, but I was still, like, pretty close. Shut the fuck up. I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. It was a true for my whole family, like, crying in the aisles experience of, like, New York City. You know, and, like, just the way everyone in that movie, It's about aliens and shit, but it's just about having a job in New York and dealing with life in the city every single day. Yeah. It's so beautiful. It's a perfect movie. 90 minutes long. It's very short. Have you seen Men in Black? Yeah, why? I don't know. Sometimes you really see. The mid-90s things that children could see is sometimes...

38:26I was allowed to see anything I wanted. Yeah. Right, okay. Anything you wanted? Anything that was of interest to me, I was allowed to see. There was no rules about that kind of thing. Was that one of your three? No. But you wanted it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I told you like the first sex scene I ever saw was in Excalibur. Remember? Oh, yeah. We know. Yes. Chris, my father is here. Please. Mr. Phantasy, it's about King Arthur. I'll tell you later. It's very erotic. It's all over.

39:03I have a pick. Yeah, it's your pick. I'm taking in Blockbuster Ghostbusters.

39:12In part because I know who is picking next and I know how Griffin's mind works. Can I ask you a question just right off the top here? Just slow down. You're just getting a little aggressive. Do you think... I've just selected and haven't spoken yet about my pick. You go ahead and talk about Ghostbusters. Go ahead and talk about Ghostbusters. What's your question? Do you think Ghostbusters true is actually more New York? Vigo the Carpathian? Yeah. He wasn't born in New York. No, I know. But he's like kind of feeding off of the psychic energy of the city. Well, you could make that case because the great monster at the end is the Statue of Liberty at the end of Ghostbusters 2.

39:43But I would argue Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, really one of the first, you know, true... New Yorkers? New Yorkers? Yeah. He's kind of got the energy of a New Yorker. You know, he's like, get out of my way. Yeah, it's true. I want what I want. Yeah. I'm walking here. That's right. Oh, wow. Ghostbusters, there's not a card. Elizabeth, everyone's trying their best. My take is that Ghostbusters, I'm jumping in here because you stole my pick, is that Ghostbusters is, one, is more a New York film, and Ghostbusters 2 is like a New York movie in quotes. I think Ghostbusters 1 is really smart comedically about understanding the tenor of this city and how it would react to things like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

40:32And the response to that was so great from the world that Ghostbusters 2 is like hot dog guys tripping over themselves, doing hand gestures, Statue of Liberty, all that. They go too hard. So it's like, it's more of a New York film texturally or on a surface level. Okay. Like the River of Slime. Griffin, you can't have it though. So what's your pick? Well, two's still out there. Wait, are you a Ghostbusters 2 guy? Is that why you're asking? I always thought Vigo was pretty interesting. Yeah. You kind of have like a Vigo thing. Yeah, exactly. You kind of emit the same natural male energy. He's got good ideas, good politics.

41:08I like that you've named the Carpathian. You could be Chris the Philadelphian. Call me that from now on. Okay, Griffin, you're up. Well, that was the move I was going to make. So two of three are gone? Yes. Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna I think this is what I'm gonna do I'm going to in subway movie draft Spider-Man 2 okay yeah yeah that's the that's the upside down kiss it's a fantasy subway it's a fantasy subway which one is upside down this is when he saves the train it transforms into the the Chicago L yeah it's an elevated subway in Manhattan yes I know that the upside down kiss is not on the train I was just extrapolating well isn't the upside down kiss in the first Spider-Man correct Oh, it is.

41:53Oh, okay. And Spider-Man 1, he also saves the ferry, right? This man is leaving because you've drafted Spider-Man 2. I apologize. He's like, I've had enough of this. He's cool. It's one of the great extended subway set pieces. It takes liberties with the actual function of the MTA itself, but I think it overcomes that. It's fine. It's fine. In characterizing the experience of the subway so well. I love how this crowd is incensed anytime a handwritten sign comes out incensed for the record you made the list I'm almost certain that Ghostbusters is on the list so I'm super confused but you know what that's good we're just we're flowing this is a live podcast it's all happening live the moment where all the New Yorkers step in front of Spider-Man's body to block him from Doc Ock you want to get to Spider-Man you got to go through me and then also them carrying his passed out body after he's...

42:51He's just a kid. And they put the mask on him. We'll keep your secret safe. That's what you were doing with Cuomo this morning, right? You were like, if you want to get to him, you're going to have to get through me. Wait, Sean. Cuomo does not take the subway. Come on. When we did Raimi on Blank Check, I found this quote from him where he said, to me, the big... The key to the Spider-Man movies is no one else in the films knows that Peter Parker's the main character, that everyone treats him like he's a background actor in his own movie. And I think that's very New York. It is a thing I love about the kind of, like, beautiful pain of New York City is that everyone's constantly fucking knocking you down and cutting you down to size.

43:37And yet you have these moments of, like, collective power of a bunch of fucking, like, salami-eaten New Yorkers being like, We love Spider-Man! We gotta help him! He's okay! You know, it swings both ways. Much like Spider-Man! Yes. And he means in the bedroom. Yeah. Right. Slip in the menu. Yeah. Slip in the menu. You must be devastated to have Spider-Man. I do. Yeah, you know. You've got a lot of your key texts taken from here. Yeah, these are some boy movies now that I'm looking at it. Francis Hall fighting the fight. I mean, I do think that Sean is going to mock me again for, well, I don't know actually, because I know he likes this movie too.

44:14And this is the one I'm going to look you right in the eye. Okay. I don't know if you want this. Are you going to take, yeah. Yeah, I think I'm really sorry. But in drama, I'm going to take 25th Hour. That's fucked up. Yeah. Both dramas are spikes. I do sort of feel if you are drafting in this that you have to have a Spike Lee movie. This is Spike Lee's movie adapted by David Benioff from his novel about, you know, Monty, a drug dealer. It's his last day before going to jail. It is also famously Spike Lee's 9-11 movie. It is a movie that is a love letter to New York. It has the greatest ending of all time, which I watched before I came here today.

44:57You do that every day. Yeah. Well, I was like, now I'm wrecked. Now I just have to like sit here for 20 minutes. Chris does the speech in the mirror every day. And absolutely like a beautiful, angry, heartbroken, like amazing tribute to New York. So, not like, I mean, it's not as fun as Ghostbusters or Men in Black, but a masterpiece, so. Not eligible in Blockbuster. Yeah. Great movie. I'm going to have fun later. That's a great pick. Thank you. Also one of Chris Ryan's favorites. I love that movie more than Die Hard with a Vengeance. Yeah. That's my fault. Okay, so for Subway movie, I'm going to go with The French Connection.

45:43Nice. There we go. Good pick. One of the most harrowing displays of chasing a Marseille heroin dealer into a subway station and just missing him. And just be like, God damn it. Well, he outsmarts it. I know, right. Well, that's, I mean, the movie would have ended right there if he had that movie when I got in the car chase. Best known for this incredible car chase directed by William Friedkin. This is a multi-time Oscar winner. So somewhat strategically, I take that off of the board. But one of the great cop movies, one of the great New York movies and change the way car chases were shot on film.

46:17It reflected even in One Battle After Another just recently released. So that leaves me with another pick. Life of a showgirl is not eligible. How many times have you gone to the theater? Best album since Lover. Just throwing that out there. Free yourselves from the Jack Andinoff prison. I asked you this yesterday because you were the first person I ever heard say that they like this new album. I was shocked. It's true, but I was like 12 hours late to it because I was sleeping, so everyone had gotten mad and then I listened and I was like, hmm, I'm bopping, you know? I can't believe the world we live in now is being 12 hours late to an album because you dared sleep.

47:03In action, horror, thriller, I'm going to take Rear Window. Nice. Good. This is, all right. which I'm not even sure did they shoot this on like a soundstage somewhere but is very very reflective of the like weird like oh that guy's watching that again alright you know like were you like a were you looking out the window oh yeah were you no I mean like but you just when you move here and if you're like I was living in Brooklyn and like all of a sudden I like opened the shade and there was just like a guy right there and I was like I guess we're neighbors is it Batman It was Jimmy Stewart filming me.

47:41When you move here, you go get your telephoto lens. Yeah. Set it up. Grace Kelly's making me breakfast. It's good stuff. One of the great, great Hitchcock movies. One of the greatest movies ever made. Yeah. The best. And also isolates a very New York condition. Yes. The best theater experience you can get from a movie, I think. Rear window, you think? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a movie that is wonderful at home, but like is 100 billion times better in a movie theater. Yeah. Great take. Yeah. What's the outdoor movie theater in Brooklyn overlooking the bridge? The Skyline? Does that still exist? I went there a lot in COVID.

48:14I haven't been there since. Yeah. I saw Rear Window there with my wife. Hell yeah. I saw Armageddon there, one of the great New York movies. We saw Armageddon there, one of the great New York movies. Eddie Griffin, The Little Chihuahua. Remember all that? It's Eddie Griffin, right? Yeah. Yeah. You got another pick? That was it? He did too. What did you just take? Rear Window and? French Connection. Oh yeah. Pretty good. Okay. It's me again. And if I had your name and address, I would send you a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils. Okay. Okay. I was like, what are we doing here? You're waiting.

48:43But yes, in Blockbuster, my first Nora Ephron pick, we'll see whether there's another, is in fact You've Got Mail. I, yeah. Whoa, yeah. I do know that this is controversial. I think that When Harry Met Sally is the best and the most influential. You've Got Mail is my personal favorite. It came out when I was in high school and I watched it 1 ,000 times and I can quote every bit of it. And it is also, you know, very of the Upper West Side and makes reference to the Upper West Side. So in some ways, that was my introduction to that part of New York. You know, a sort of indefensible movie from a moral perspective.

49:30Like most of her movies. Sure, but yeah, it's true. No, most of them. But that one's like especially bad of like, you know, he was just catfishing her the whole time. But he's Tom Hanks, so it's early time. It's early email, though. Like, who knew? Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. We're just trying it out. We're just trying to figure it out. Like, you know, in that scene when they're like instant messaging, which is, are you guys old enough to know what that is? Anyway, and she like hides from the computer because she's like, can he see me? You know, I still do that. It's really ingrained into my life.

50:02and I was going to ask whether they could like music cue the cranberries for when I picked this but I don't know then it got too complicated anyway imagine that would cost$180 ,000 and I would have had to have a pumpkin you know a whole thing so you've got mail interesting not on my board it's about the Barnes and Noble on 83rd and Broadway I grew up in 89th and Amsterdam which displaced West Side Books which you know it's about that And now I look at that Barnes & Noble And I'm like This is an institution of the upper way It's a beautiful Barnes & Noble It's crazy It's true I like how you did Spider-Man 2 voice about that They sell books in here Get out of here Paper It's like It's To me Like one of the better movies About like the battle For the soul of New York Yeah Which is a direct quote From Kathleen Kelly Yeah And I respect that pick And because of that I'm going to draft When Harry Met Sally In Blockbuster Yep.

51:01Okay. You boxed me in. I knew what I was doing. I had to do it. I had to do it. I respect it. Needed a Nora on my board. Not a Nora. Not a Nora. Yeah. A Nora. A Nora Ephron picture. One of the most, like, beautifully shot New York movies, in my opinion. Barry Sonnenfeld, just, like, fucking going to the map. Blacking out. Just being insane. Yeah. I'm, like, one of the great... Just, like, creating Autumn. This is why you come here. So good. is to hear about Barry Sonnenfeld blacking out during the making of When Harry Met Sally. This is movie podcasting. The textures. Leaves had only ever been green until When Harry Met Sally.

51:41He was like, they could be brown. Yeah, he was like, let's toast these motherfuckers. No, it's like one of the great walking and talking movies. I mean, I feel like it's less textually, explicitly New York-y than You've Got Mail, which is like about the city, but it is so much a movie about New York. But it's on location there at the Temple of Dender in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Katz's. Where do they have lunch? Like Katz's. Yeah. Is that the boat basin when Carrie Fisher's going through the Rolodex? You know? Yeah, they're everywhere. How well shot it is. Sharper image, you know? It is a movie that is just like full of New York locations in a way that no one would have access to today.

52:16A pillar of New York iconography, sharper image. Glom, but never forgotten. Six, three, and fringe on top in front of Ira! Anyway. Fuckin' Ira.

52:32I have a pick, right? Do you feel like you've got too many choices? You seem vexed. Well. Oh, great. There's a world where I just draft five boy movies, right? Yeah. And it's just like. Don't do that. What a sad, desolate loser. Yeah. And, you know. thinking about the underground man and what he contributed to society. I'm referring to Travis Bickle. Yeah. So in drama, I will be taking Taxi Driver. Had to be done. Which I think is also an incredible New York movie in terms of the conversation of what New York looks, sounds, and feels like. Yeah. Not just being in the back of cabs, but being in those porn theaters, wandering into the...

53:21Which, you know, I learned about from Chris. and um only when they show Excalibur yeah but just that I love that you know the sequence obviously where he goes where Bickle goes into the um campaign office which is just right on a street corner and kind of prominently displayed and that is the kind of essence of of New York that I find is different from other cities where everything is just kind of right in front of you all the time and feels very accessible and approachable and you're kind of constantly surrounded by people it really struck me this week just hanging out the last couple days is how isolated I am in Los Angeles.

53:54And so the idea of the major isolation of Travis Pickle... You do also live in a castle, right? I live in Downton Abbey, which I had flown to Los Angeles. Nevertheless, no, obviously New York is, or LA is a lonely city. New York is not a lonely city. People are around all of them. Constantly surrounded, but Travis Pickle is alone. He is one of the most alone people in the history of movies. And this movie is very good at showing that. It's not a very fun pick. Not a lot of people here are like, God damn it, yes! Bickle? You did it, man. But it's an amazing film. That guy has no ripple effects in current society.

54:28Awesome. So you're blaming Scorsese for his state of affairs? Never. He just had his finger on the pulse. And that pulse still goes beep, beep, beep. Okay, David. I'm going to take the Royal Tenenbaums in comedy. Okay. Nice job. In comedy? Yes. I'm taking it in comedy. Okay. Which is where I want it. Okay. That sounded weird. Where I want it. It's another sort of like wonderful shabby New York movie, like a specific neighborhood, a specific vibe, a specific sort of era. It's sort of set a little timeless. What era is it, would you say? It feels like kind of like early 80s, right? Like sort of Wes Anderson's childhood, even though he didn't grow up in like 1990, 79.

55:17Hamilton Heights. Yeah, exactly. and it's like very romantic about the city in a way even though it's not really about the city but like the scene of where they go down to the go-kart place and all that like it's just like showing you parts of the city you don't get to see much and I think it's also it's like his a child who has not yet visited New York's imagination of what New York is like the music is so evocative of the city and like it just it's also just about like the kinds of freaks that end up succeeding here in a way right you like cash yeah yeah well he's got some good ideas um has he made a New York movie in a while not really he did such a good job Wes yeah there's not one since Tannenbaum right I believe yeah I don't know if you're asked Anderson he's an expat now yeah he moved to Europe he's a Parisian boy now um but great movie another I'm picking a lot of movies that were big for me when I was like 14 years old but that seems appropriate.

56:19Because we're living in... Northern England. What? You say Northern England? I mean, I went to college in Northern England. The North of England? He lived in North London. I lived in North London. Camden. Kenish Town, if anyone cares. All right. You have another pick. Oh, yes. I have another pick. In Subway, I want the taking of Pelham 123. This is my favorite New York movie. Original or remake? original or remake original i love the remake yeah i have a lot of fondness for the remake the remake has an incredibly involved scene where denzel explains subway switching that is technically accurate and i really appreciate it whereas this has a scene where the irt pelham line goes to coney island which is not possible the train would not fit on those tracks it's vital for action and all that i get it still you're taking it i love this this is my favorite movie of all time, I think.

57:17I was confident you were going to take this first. Did you just think the rest of us wouldn't fight you for it? I took a calculated bet that you guys would pick weird shit like Francis Ha. Yeah. Don't be an asshole. Because it's not, look, it's a celebrated movie, and I think it's got, like, such a fan base now. But, like, I do feel like it was sort of more of, like, a forgotten-ish, like, it's a Joseph Sargent movie. Like, it's not, like, a great auteur. And it's sort of, for a while was this trivia fact of like, that's where Tarantino got the Mr. Blue, Mr. Green from Reservoir Dogs. Because they've all, you know, all the bank robber, the subway heist guys do that in Taking a Pell in 123.

57:56Do you guys like this movie? I'm talking a lot. Yes. No, I think it's an amazing pick. It's a great New York movie because it's about a fucking thing that happens. And then everyone in New York, whose job it is to deal with it, a hostage situation on a subway platform, is like, oh, Jesus Christ. Like the mayor, Walter Matthau, the cop, Jerry Stiller, the train, the MTA. I was just like, what now? This shit? I fucking could barely be alive here. And now I got to deal with this? The criminals also have that energy. Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo. Yes. They're all like, I guess we'll rob this train.

58:33Can we have like 10 grand in the movie? He's like, we don't have any fucking money. It's 1974. It's the best movie ever made if you've never seen it. I mean, it's not the best movie, but it's my favorite movie. I watch it all the time. It's a great pick.

58:52Go rogue. Do something fun. Yeah. Express yourself. Yeah, let's go. Go rogue? Yeah, just do two Marty movies and Ghostbusters. It's a little obvious. Yeah, I'm freaking crushing it right now. Yeah, you are. In action horror thriller, I'll be taking Uncut Gems. All right.

59:13That's good. That's me. I mean, you know, it's not really diverging from the path very much, but it's good. I can only be myself. And I'll tell you a couple things. One, I saw Uncut Gems for the first time at the Telluride Film Festival which was a huge mistake for the Telluride Film Festival because they put that movie on for me and 772 year old men and women. And when the movie started I was like, this is probably the best movie I've ever seen. And 640 people walked out halfway through. They were like, I cannot believe you dare show us this because this is really a genuine artifact of modern New York and of a modern kind of anxiety and a modern crime thriller.

59:57And a lot of the movies that we're drafting tonight obviously were huge inspirations for Uncut Gems and what the Safdie brothers were doing with that movie, which is about a jeweler who's deep in debt and is looking for a way out. And spoiler alert, finds a way out in a manner of speaking. But this is one of the more thrilling movies in recent memory and a very, very, very clear example of great on-location New York filmmaking, especially the scene outside of the auction hall when... And gets thrown in the... Yes, when he's thrown out. And he's encountering all of these men in the street who all want something from him.

1:00:32And the Safdies are so good at casting real people in their movies. And all of those people are from New York City. And if you've seen the movie, you know exactly what I'm talking about. So was that fun enough for you? It was good, yeah. Good job. Thanks. I live to serve. When I was doing draft strategizing, I realized you could make the case for Uncut Gems in drama, comedy, or thriller, and also could have drafted it in blockbuster. That's right. So actually, let's talk about that, because Chris asked me, are the classic kind of crime dramas, are they only eligible in drama? And I think that maybe the hallowed ones are dramas, but the more recent ones are thrillers?

1:01:12I was saying to Amanda backstage that if it had, if it's like French Connection, I think would have been available in thriller or drama, but it's a thriller action because it's got incredible set pieces. I can think of several other New York City crime dramas that have no set pieces. Like Serpico probably doesn't fit. Yeah. Drama. But I think it's what you just identified. It's whether or not it's tapping into New York anxiety. If the anxiety is there, it becomes a thriller. Is Taxi Driver, like horror? Not really. I don't think so. Yeah, it's a drama. Yeah, it's a drama. Like a character study.

1:01:44Right. Griffin, you're up. Yes. What do you have left? Nobody heard that. What do I have left? Yeah. Many, many things. Too many things. But I think... I heard where the vengeance is off the board. I know. But you guys are sweating it now, right? You're like, damn it. It was on my list there. Now you've got two bottles. You're filling them up. You're trying to... I genuinely thought about making that a trivia question was I would bring the jugs out from DH with a V and see if anyone on stage could solve it. But that just seemed like kind of risky with all the electronics around. I'm a little surprised I'm in a position to draft this that you have not already taken off the board, CR, unless I've misidentified.

1:02:23I was really stressed and then you said that CR hasn't drafted it and now I'm relieved. In action horror thriller, I'm going to take The Warriors. Okay. Which is like one of the best funhouse mirror depictions of New York City ever. But also if you watch Fox News, a sobering realistic take of what is happening outside our window every day. Yeah, it's a great subway movie too, but you have a subway. I thought about putting it in subway. But yeah, I mean, it is often cited. Die Hard with a Vengeance is another one that I think gets the brownie points for this of being like a movie without geographic cheats.

1:02:59It actually uses the grid and the layout of the city and the boroughs and the public transit and the walking paths. and makes a point to force the characters to wait on the train the way you have to wait on the train on a long ride to Coney Island yes and you know I've never you have to go back to Coney Island oh yeah that's right I've never had a night of quite that level of intensity but it does somehow get at the feeling of being like oh my god now I have to get home you know did you consider full baseball fury's attire tonight yeah I brought a baseball jersey backstage I thought about wearing my Edwin Diaz jersey, and I thought he didn't look good enough in it.

1:03:39And I was going to wear my Minor League Brooklyn Cyclones Toy Story jersey. Yeah, right. That I bought from their recent Toy Story night. That's how you get me to go to a sporting event. But yeah, no, I'm picking the Warriors. Okay, good pick. All right. It takes it off the board for Subway as well. Yes. Okay. I already have a Subway. And I could draft this in Outer Burroughs if this were a thing that we're doing, but instead I will do it in comedy. Another music cue that I couldn't get cleared, it's Working Girl, obviously. Which is one of my favorite movies. And, you know, it starts after circling the Statue of Liberty with a, you know, a young woman going to Manhattan trying to make things happen.

1:04:28and you know there were a lot of movies in the late 80s of just you know yuppie women trying to make it happen this is my favorite also directed by Mike Nichols sort of the consummate New Yorker what do you relate to about this movie yeah um being in love with Harrison Ford I do feel that this is the hottest that Harrison Ford has ever been on screen uh and that does include Witness um but we can litigate that another time where would you litigate it with some people on the stage at a time. CR? Yeah. He did recently get a Blu-ray of it, right? You got one of those? I did, yes. Blu-ray of 4K. It was gifted to me from Tracy Letts.

1:05:11Yeah, at like minute 300 of the physical media draft. Most beautiful 300 minutes of my life. You rolled out a second suitcase and out came witness. Anyway, working girl in Alzheimer. Great pick. Okay, Chris. Okay. Good day to die hard. Comedy. But this is because there was a typo that changes, that is disrespectful. So, yeah. So it was prepared, but that's better. Thank you, Elizabeth. So when we were backstage, our producer, Jack Sander, was telling a story about how last night at 1230, someone reached out to him and had like a magical offer of socializing for him. And he was like, just sit by the phone.

1:05:57I'm going to come get you. or you're going to come meet me. It's 12.30. 2 a.m. Here's back to this person. Sorry, it's not going to happen. And that thing is like the central conceit of after hours. And so I'm going to put this in comedy. But the magic slash nightmare of, wait, where am I? How did I get down here? I don't have any money. Doesn't seem to matter. Yes, it does. Shit. Like that kind of rolling snowballing into hell or heaven or into a plaster encasement, who knows, is really like After Hours captures that about the city. So while it starts with a phone call, you end, you know, being wrapped in plaster.

1:06:39Plaster of Paris, technically. I was thinking about this for Subway because this features one of the greatest Subway scenes of all time. He doesn't get on. It's why I asked. Griffin Dunn, he goes to the window and he tries to get a subway token and he doesn't realize that at midnight the fare has changed and gone up. And he's got, he's 25 cents short on the fare. And he says to the guy in the window, can you just give it to me? Like, no one's going to know. Just give it to me. And the guy behind the window, who's the greatest New York actor of all time, says, I don't know, I could go to a party, get drunk, tell someone.

1:07:14It's the best movie ever made. And then Dunn goes to jump the turnstile and he jumps right into a cop. And if you haven't seen After Hours, you should see it. The great New York Griffin movie. I will say definitive. Griffin Dunn, yeah, right. It's Soho Canon. I've been trying to put together a list quietly of the Soho Canon. Soho Canon? Yes. Oh, wow. It is the number one Soho movie, like just cobblestones, weird warehouses, you know, the empty vibe of that neighborhood. Does Wall Street count or no? We're just caught stealing land in that. Caught stealing land's in the garbage where it belongs.

1:07:48That movie is bad. Okay. Okay, so I have After Hours in comedy. Mm-hmm. And in Oscar winner, I will take All That Jazz. There we go.

1:08:02Largely set in theaters and in Roy Scheider's mind, Roy Scheider or Bob Fosse's mind, but still captures the desperation of trying to make it in New York and also the anxiety and depression of what happens when you've made it in New York and are trying to keep your hands on it. Rory Scheider plays Joe who's basically Bob Fosse trying to mount this say everything leave it all on the field production of a musical do you remember the name of the show that he's producing? I actually don't it's New York slash LA oh poignant and Rory Scheider gives Dodgers are waiting by the way this is one of my favorite performances it's definitely my favorite Rory Scheider performance but it's one of my favorite acting performances so all that jazz for Oscar winner won best editing and a bunch of other stuff.

1:08:52Polite applause. It's the best fucking movie. Okay, so I have two categories left. I have action horror thriller and Oscar winner, I believe. Yes. Okay. I'm going to go with my heart and this one is also from my friend Katie who's in the audience and who texted me 15 minutes before the show. Like, I didn't remember that the Thomas Crown Affair in 1999 is a thriller set in New York, an action thriller set in New York City. Yeah, they robbed the Met twice. I have just like a very perverse, obsessed relationship with, thank you, I have been on Blank Check to talk about the Thomas Crown Affair. That's right.

1:09:351999. What a day for McTiernan. Yeah, well. When you think New York, you think John McTiernan. It's true. Was Predator available too tonight? Predator too, though. He did a painting and then he put it right back, you know? And also then they danced really sexy at Cipriani's. So it's all, and had sex on a marble staircase that is very realistic in terms of New York City homes. My father is here. So my in-laws are here. Hi, Rich and Jane. I love this movie very deeply. It is silly and very funny and the best bond that Pierce Brosnan ever did. and there we go. Yeah. 1999. That's right. Yeah. Wait, wait.

1:10:22Well, yeah. Oh, well, it's okay. You guys know that it's the remake. Griffin, you're up again. What do you, what do you, what do you got? What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Coming out. Look, there's something. Wait, I need to interrupt you for a second. Griffin really wants to win. Very badly. The last time we did this, he won. Did you win both times? Who won the president? We don't know if that was ever, much like our own elections. It's unclear. You mean 2020. Whether anyone was fairly. Don't worry, I know. Don't worry. I won the lawyer one, which I went turbo mode, grinding on. Watched roughly 100 lawyer movies in four days before the draft.

1:11:00That was really psychotic. Yeah. I had zero fun during that draft. I felt great once I won. But it felt like running a marathon. How are you feeling right now? I'm feeling okay. I feel like I'm in a pretty good position. And the question is, do I go sicko mode? and draft from my heart or do I play to the crowd? And there's a movie that's still available and the three of you, I feel confident, would never, ever take it. This fucking guy might. And there is a part of me that just doesn't. English Dave? God. Govna. I don't want to run the risk of letting him steal it from me, even though I don't know if he could work it in his categories, but I'm going to fucking do it.

1:11:40In drama, I'm going to draft Clint Eastwood's masterpiece Sully. Woo! Yeah. Wow. I thought about it. One of the great New York movies. I don't, did it win an Oscar for like sound editing or something? No. So I'm not sure I could fit it in. No, I don't think so. You're getting all your blank check in our big picture right now. A little bit. It's a little Reese's peanut butter cup. A blockbuster was, was a big ass hit. Made 120 million domestic and negative$15 worldwide. But I'm drafting it in drama. Disrespectful. Disrespectful. Do you know how many movies? The movies that have been handwritten would win the draft if they were put together.

1:12:30Yeah. You could like make a subway map of only the handwritten movies and it would fulfill the spirit of the city. There's a lot in Sully That I think captures New York It's obviously a hugely important New York Moment in our history It's about a guy refusing to go to New Jersey He won't fucking land at Teterboro Thank you You can go to Teterboro He eyeballed it He's not making it He eyeballed it He didn't crash, it was a forced Water landing We all have to admit that You have no issue with the completely imagined FAA hearing that comprises the final 25 minutes of the movie. That is such an insane misread of the movie.

1:13:14The whole point is that Sully is a man who just does his job. He just does the work. Every day he takes off and he lands fucking planes. That's all he cares about. He's not a hero. He doesn't want attention. The people on the board are just doing their jobs just like him. It's due diligence. They're not actually accusing him of anything. They have to ask the questions. And by the end of the movie, they reveal that. Yes. In the final hearing, after he is found to be in the right, Anna Gunn says, by the way, I want to tell you, listen to that tape, that was extraordinary. And they all have tears in their eyes.

1:13:50Including the audience. It's because they couldn't show that up until that point. That was unprofessional. They're like him. And it's the fucking... You could almost draft this in thriller. This is so true. It's going to be okay Sully You did get the movie By the way Do you imagine Eastwood He's just like lying still And they're like You know he landed the plane He's like I know And they're like And I guess there was some hearing And he's like Hearing Chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga They railroad the guy Do do do There was administration And regulation I'll be there tomorrow I mean one of the big things About Sully Is that he can't Fucking go back home He can't get on that Metro North and go back to his wife.

1:14:32He's stuck in a hotel in New York. The movie spans the five days of him just being stuck in our city. We have more picks to make. But the highlight of the film is the rescue sequence itself where you cut the turtle, you cut to the dispatcher, and you watch how quickly our city comes together and gets shit done. So true. Sully, Sully, Sully, Sully. USA!

1:15:04Great decision. Great decision. That was a great decision. How many people here have really seen Sully? Honestly, be honest. Nine guys. Okay. Letterboxd logs tonight are going, boo!

1:15:19It's you, right? Yeah. What am I supposed to do with that? Just take another Scorsese movie and keep it moving. Mean Streets! Honestly, I will. I'll take Wolf of Wall Street comedy because I don't know. That's fine. That's your kind of New Yorker. You know, it's... I don't know how to even follow what you just did there. Should I just explain every scene of The Wolf of Wall Street from start to finish? Yeah. So McConaughey's talking about jerking off, right? Explain the scenes, but make it clear that you approve of what's happening within them. Yeah, this is obviously a tacit acknowledge that the only way to go through life is to be greedy, use drugs, cheat on your wife, and win America, right?

1:15:58That's the point of the movie. That's the point of the movie, yeah. Yeah. We just did this on 25 for 25, and we talked about what an amazing masterpiece this is, especially made by a guy in his 70s. Jesus Christ. Yeah. How did he do that? I can barely get out of bed at 10 a.m. in New York City. I'm like, the time change. Well, Clint Eastwood made Sully, you know, at the age of 95. That's true. And he was awake every day on set. He woke up, and he went to set. Wolf of Wall Street, hilarious. So funny, on purpose and by accident. And I think that's actually good when that happens. You know? You know what I'm saying?

1:16:30Yeah, of course. Like DH with a V. It was really funny that you picked that on purpose. This was eligible in Subway 2. A pivotal scene. It is. Oh, that's right. Well, it's a wordless scene. But it's pivotal to our understanding. Explain it. So Kyle Chandler, the FBI agent who investigates, and spoiler alert for The Wolf of Wall Street, which was released over 10 years ago, eventually takes down Jordan Belfort, the protagonist. They have a conversation on a boat about living the high life versus going about doing your job and then taking the subway home. And at the very end, after he has arrested Jordan Belfort, he is shown just sitting on the subway by himself, looking around, being like, well, I did it, but also, is this what I did?

1:17:17So that qualifies as... Taking the subway. Yeah, that qualifies as pivotal? Yes? oh my god alright respect

1:17:33Elizabeth that was good Elizabeth Fehrman everyone for those of you listening at home there was not a placard for the Wolf of Wall Street there is more handwritten placards on the board now than there are printed out ones it's a good pick you don't have to be rude about it I like the film we did a whole podcast about it who's next Oh, I am? Already? Okay. Wait, no. David's up. My final two. This is the end for me. It'll be okay. Back to England. In action, thriller, horror, I want American Psycho. A few options there. This just feels like the New Yorkiest. And I guess since it can't be taken. It was between that and John Wick, which I love.

1:18:27But I'm taking American Psycho as more of like, you know, a movie about New York. Yes, please. So, John Wick's sort of a fake New York. But it is New York. It is. A ton of real locations. It is New York. Yeah. And I don't feel like it has that reputation. And I wanted to talk with you guys about that because John Wick lives on Long Island, right? Yes. He kills freaking dog. Yes. And then he's like, I'm John Wick. I have to Wick you. He does do that. And then he goes to New York City. Yes. He goes to the Continental, which of course does not exist, but is shot in New York. Yeah, it's Wall Street and downtown.

1:18:56But they're like, this is New York and not like weird John Wick world? It is New York. John Wick is set in all the cities it's set in always. But it's sort of a weird fake New York. Where's that mountain town? Hmm? The mountain town in John Wick 4? It looked lovely. Oh, that was Ballerina. Oh, Ballerina. Sorry, thank you. It was from the world of John Wick. I think you mean John Wick's Ballerina? Yeah, right. Yeah. And that John Wick 2 has the incredible subway. But that's not shot on the subway. sure. Sorry. Yeah. It wasn't, it was shot in like either Toronto or on the path or something. but then the actual train itself is fake.

1:19:28I think John Wick shoots real New York locations in such a stylized way that even for me, a native New Yorker, I watch them, I go like, Oh, that is that building. Right. Cause it feels like it's Schumacher Gotham or something. Right. Yeah. Right. But I picked American psycho, which is pretty unimpeachable. It's a great pick by me and we're not talking about it, but it's a great New York frame of mind movie. What is it that you relate to? with American Psycho. I realize I'm going... It's the grindset mindset of it, right? I've gone full vintage here, right? Like, you know, 90s, 70s with Pelham 1, 2, 3, and this is like the great 80s New York movie, right?

1:20:03Or if, you know, there's the Raging Bull or the working class of 80s New York. Forget about Raging Bull. We're talking about American Psycho. Sorry. And it's just, it's a great portrayal of what the city sort of turned into, right? And through the eyes of a really normal guy who has a normal job and a normal way of doing business. Normal fridge with normal heads in it. It's a great movie. I just got my Blu-ray. I just rewatched it. In the Luca remake is fucking Patrick Bateman going to have a podcast network? That's who that guy is now, right? Right. He's selling like fucking brain powder. You're staring right at Sean as you say.

1:20:44Sean. American Psycho. You guys like that movie? I do. Yeah, pretty good. Great videotapes movie. I've never heard you talk about that film. I think it's a movie I assumed you didn't like because in over 10 years, it's like never come up in conversation. Okay, well. I don't know, I'm just saying. You got another pick. Oscar winner is my final category. I'm taking... There's a lot on the board here. I know. And it's like, do I go boring or do I go personal? I'm not sure, but I do think the answer is Godfather Part II because I do think that's like the most beautiful, you were saying it during the trivia round, like just the shot of the boy sitting in Ellis Island.

1:21:26Like it is like the most important part of the New York picture. And it's crazy. There's other movies about that experience like that are great, but like that Coppola for part two is like, this is what this is about. You think that the polite applause is because everybody here knows this is a Lake Tahoe movie? It does have a lot of great Tahoe, but it's also got fucking De Niro wasting olive oil guys on Mulberry Street, okay? It's got a lot of great New Yorks at the rooftop scene, you know, after he, yeah, that's beautiful. It's a great pick for your last pick. Thank you! Now I'm just gonna rag on whatever you guys pick.

1:22:06I want to say also, no white cards for me. Look at that. Elizabeth, did you rig this for David? okay I have one more pick I haven't picked Subway movie I'm going to pick Dressed to Kill so very famous scene in Brian Palmer's Dressed to Kill where the killer approaches Nancy Allen and is trying to take care of her while she's riding the subway that it's just absolutely harrowing I feel like people maybe don't think of this as much of a New York movie but also a lot of my picks got taken already so I'm going to take it here at this exact moment it's a good pick great job I was watching this last night.

1:22:45It's great. Can I shout out a couple good Subway movies? I was trying to think. Or should we wait till the end? Assuming you're not going to take one of them. Well, Subway's done. You filled it up. No, I have Oscar winner. I know, but he might say a Subway movie. Yeah. Oh, okay. So I'll be quiet. I'll be quiet. I can think of one off the top of my head. It's just an important category. Yeah. So you have Oscar left? Yeah, but it's Griffin's pick. Oh, it's Griffin's pick. Sorry. I mean, there are a lot of great historic New York comedies I could pick. Little Nicky.

1:23:15Ants. These are just kind of chalk picks as if I wanted to convince this audience of my erudite taste. Right. And CR, you picked All That Jazz. I'm wearing an All That Jazz t-shirt. It is a great movie about how hard it is to make it and especially make it in show business and the idea of the great white way and all that sort of stuff. With that off the board, there's only one pick I feel like I can make, which is the only movie that captures that subject in a bleaker and more psychologically intense way. And that, of course, is The Muppets Take Manhattan. A good one.

1:23:58A movie in which a bunch of small town, you know, big fish, little pond, Muppets come to New York and get their fucking asses kicked up and down Main Street. They tap out. They go. They leave. They disperse. And then Kermit finds financing. It's like the Muppets have to come back together and put on a show. They never did that before on the Muppets, anything like that. It's an origin story. Oh, okay, okay. So they technically hadn't done it before, if you're looking at the timeline. It's a slippery cannon. It's kind of the Andor. Oh, surprise, surprise. That one had to get written down.

1:24:44Got Manhattan in the title. Big inspiration for me in my life. Has definitely affected my daily decision-making process. Who is your one-to-one Muppet comp? Who do you think? Well, now I want to know who you... Fozzie! Fozzie is my one, but I do feel like there's an id ego, super ego of Fozzie Gonzo Scooter. Yeah. but gun to my head Fozzie's the the pick yeah yeah I got stressed out when you said that okay you have a you have a Muppet comp Sierra are you familiar with the Muppets animals animals yeah you could also yeah you could be Crazy Harry I think as well bomb thrower yeah you're you're Sam Eagle yeah there have to be rules important function important function the dynamic.

1:25:40I'm also an icon of this country. A true patron. I always like the Swedish chef, right? Yeah. Because you're always cooking. Just naming Muppets. Okay, I have Oscar winner left. We know who you are. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:26:03Okay, so I have Oscar winner, and I I'm torn between being cute and trying to win is not really, like I love all of the picks, but. The eternal struggle. Yeah. Cute or winning. Cute or winning. I think that I'm going to do a middle ground. And I can't believe that this is the sixth round. I will be taking Michael Clayton, an Oscar winner.

1:26:38Tilda. Tilda's the lone Oscar for that movie, right? Tilda, yes. Tilda's one. One of the great Milwaukee movies. One of the great movies about agricultural crime. Some unfortunate things do happen in a parking lot, though off screen. Yeah, this is a movie about someone as handsome as George Clooney just being beaten down by this city. By Brian Koppelman at the poker table. And Brian Koppelman. and, you know, and Sidney Pollack just telling you, telling you what's what, you know, and and also that, you know, the suburbs are a scary place full of rich people who yell at you. Yeah. It's one of the great movies.

1:27:23It's also on our 25 for 25 list. It's on many a yard sign. Do they have that in New York? Do you guys have that in this house? We believe that Michael Clayton is underrepresented, you know, whatever. That's the thing that we have in Los Angeles. We'll bring it to you. Yeah, look it up on the internet. Yeah, those will swing the tide. We're going to get this country back on track. Yeah, Michael Hinton. Well, I'm so excited that I get to do this with the last pick. It's Saturday night. I hope you guys all have an amazing night out in New York City. Meet me in the Meatpacking District. We're going cruising.

1:28:04Let me guess. This is a great movie about losing yourself to your work, which I think is very, you know, a common experience in New York City. Tell us about your research when you did the rewatchables for this film. What did you do? I danced. I danced a lot. No, this is William Friedkin's movie with Al Pacino about an undercover cop who goes into the gay underground dance club scene in the meatpacking district in the 70s to find a serial killer. And he does. Spoiler. It's a great film. It's been recently-ish. Not in the last couple years, right? Redone on DVD. I highly recommend that. I adore this movie.

1:28:49When you started your pick by saying it's Saturday night, I thought you were drafting Jason Reitman's Saturday night. Jason Reitman's New York masterpiece. piece. It's about getting lost in your work. That movie was shot in Vancouver, right? Saturday Night? Yeah. I was actually going to say it would be fun to have clearly not shot in New York New York movies. Yeah. Because Escape from New York is shot in St. Louis. I mean, that's an entree to our Honorable Mentions conversation, which could be quite long, but we'll try to keep it brief. But is Eyes Wide Shut a New York movie? 100%. And I thought about picking it, and I'm almost surprised it didn't go.

1:29:25Because it is an amazing New York movie that is also shot in London. But the snow globe haunted bizarro New York is what's fun about it. I don't think it counts. We were talking about this beforehand. A lot of so far our rules have been that it must be specified as New York, which in this case it is for it to count. But there are many screwball comedies from the 30s and 40s that are basically New York, but they never say New York. And so, you know, bringing up Baby, it's like, obviously he works at the Natural History Museum, but it's whatever. So I think Eyes Wide Shut, yes. Bringing Up Baby and all the Batman movies, no.

1:30:09Escape from New York, though? I think Escape from New York, for sure. In the title. Also, Ghostbusters shot, I think, three days in New York. The first one, it's one of those incredible movies where they just got the right shots and recreated everything else in a way where you buy it. even though Ghostbusters 2 was actually filmed in the streets of New York more and feels a little more artificial. Okay, honorable mentions. What did I just do? Like three or four? Please.

1:30:39Cloverfield. Add it on my list. Add it on my list. I just like love as a New York movie. I'll also throw out. It's a really good movie about going to parties at 26. Yes. Good subway. Good subway stuff too. Good subway. It also cheats more than Warriors, but those were the two I was debating for that slot because it's a similar how do you make your way across New York movie that it is a city you can conquer in one crazy night. My subway backup pick was Inside Llewyn Davis. Yep. Oh, good one. Also a good subway scene. And nobody picked Enora. Yes, my niece who is here texted me during the show, which I received whilst looking at my phone, you have to take Enora.

1:31:20To her, I would just like to say, I'm sorry. And just as a sentimental pick, even though you outlawed Long Island, any of Hal Hartley's Long Island trilogy would have been, I think, a good pick for comedy. Wow, silence to that. Good call. Nobody took West Side Story. I almost did, and then I did Michael Clayton at the end, but I was going to snap and everything. 1961, not the Spielberg, though the Spielberg's good too. I thought about it for Oscar winner at the end there. I thought about Rosemary's Baby, iconic New York movie. Absolutely. I thought about, I cannot believe that Devil Wears Prada was not picked.

1:32:00I know. And thank you all for giving me that space. But I feel like I've done it in other drafts. You know, we had a trivia question. It was my backup for Blockbuster. But listen, like, here are other things I didn't draft. West Side Story Moonstruck. That was an obvious one. Little Attraction, which I almost did in Thriller, and also Unfaithful, speaking of Adrian Lyne movies, about going to the suburbs and then needing to come back to get it on. So, let's see. Relate to that film? Cruel Intentions. Sure. I don't live in the suburbs yet. Is Cruel Intentions New York? Yeah. It's Upper East Side, you know, private school.

1:32:39No one took Malcolm X. I mean, we have Spike Lee represented, but that's pretty intense. The Apartment like the winningness best picture we talked about Age of Innocence in trivia but not in this draft which is sort of disrespectful and great Chelsea movie and Inside Man yeah which was on the backup for Thriller for sure what about Ghost? I had it on my subway yeah the subway scene I thought that's where you were going in your subway pic when you say the inciting scene happened get off my train that guy's named Vincent Chiavelli yeah Vincent Chiavelli that guy is so New York I feel like it maybe would have won me the draft but my other option in comedy that was seriously considering was coming to America which I'm surprised no one told me yeah that would have been a good one I kind of blinked with Wolf of Wall Street I was going to go coming to America and then I just got beaten down you got Marty Blindness I thought Shaft an Oscar winner would be a particularly cool move to take it there because it is one of the coolest Oscar wins ever also I rolled against it because it was too cute.

1:33:43I adore The Wiz, which for me is one of the movies that best captures the feeling of New York, even though it technically takes place in Oz. It's a 10 %-er. I thought, yeah, I've pitched a category that was people who are walking here movie. And Shaft is a good one for that. Obviously, Midnight Cowboy is a good one for that. That's an Oscar winner right there. I had some other obvious ones. I feel like Black Swan? People don't talk about it anymore, but that's a great New York movie. This city's going to kill me. do we? yeah let's do it like a like a minute by minute pod of yeah swan pod absolutely let's start it right now let's run it here's one I was really thinking over Citizen Kane is a New York movie it's got a lot of New York it's set in New York but you don't see really but it's like 60 % you know he woos a showgirl he runs a New York paper like he makes his fortune here yeah um catch me if you can a New York movie I mean it's got a lot of New York but not not all over Home Alone 2, he is, and you guys may not know this, lost in New York.

1:34:45Yeah. Even though it's easy to get around. President's in that movie. One of his top five films. One of his top five best film performances. Breakfast at Tiffany's is a fairly iconic New York movie. With great politics. It's kind of a bad movie. Great politics in that movie. This is on here that I feel. What about The Devil's Advocate? I can't believe you didn't do it. Upon reflection. Yeah. I've made a mistake. well like devil's advocate I love devil's advocate but that's kind of bad Rosemary's Baby right because that's also about like kind of going insane in your apartment building I wouldn't use the word bad when I talked about the devil's advocate because you're afraid that he's going to come after you John Milton yeah look but don't touch touch but don't taste taste but don't swallow wait one Efron thing I know you wanted to say Sleepless in Seattle is barely set in New York.

1:35:42And yet it is very much a New York movie, right? Because it has iconic New York stuff. Because they are going to New York. And the whole last act is New York. There are two scenes, both like they are at dinner with Bill Pullman, the Empire State Building behind it. So I do think it's eligible. Doesn't she work in Baltimore in the movie? Baltimore. She does. And this was a point of discussion in the Chicago draft where everyone tried to tell me that she actually worked in Chicago and the newspaper. But no, it was Baltimore. He's in Chicago at the start of the movie. He goes to Seattle. She's in Baltimore.

1:36:11He's in Chicago? At the start of the movie. He has to leave. His wife died. He's got to buy a houseboat. I did the commentary on the 4K release of that movie. Okay, all right. Okay, you would know. Okay. Confirmed. So I feel, but I would say Seattle number one, New York number two, Baltimore three, Chicago four, as far as that movie's allegiances go. It's a joint custody situation. Yeah. In terms of which city claims it. But just to bring up North. I was like, it happened one night as another one where they're trying to get to New York. Yeah. But they do eventually, so that counts, even though a lot of it's on the road.

1:36:50I wanted to shout out two amazing Abel Ferrara movies. One is King of New York, which is one of the best crime thrillers ever. And the other is Bad Lieutenant, which is about Harvey Keitel losing his mind because the Mets suck. is so relatable. That was you watching David Peterson the other weekend? There was a wild card category that you, I think, wisely chose to cut this morning, but I was going to get funky there and maybe either draft Life Lessons, the Scorsese segment from New York Stories that fucking rules. Great movie. Or The Cruise, the Bennett Miller documentary. Yeah. Which is one of the most New Yorkie movies.

1:37:30At the grade path. You have to fight it. Carlito's Way. that's got some great train stuff great subway station scene in Carleto's way I thought you would have gone for that I was thinking about it we didn't talk about last days of disco Juliette Lippman texted me while we were on stage yeah we didn't say Metropolitan say Metropolitan I guess Kids is in there it's not a real feel good movie but why did you not take it I'm just I couldn't figure out the right category for it you know Wags just texted me Sweet Smell of Success Sweet Smell of Success was on my list don't like let's not make the live texting during a live pod thing I realize we're revealing that people are texting us but that sounds like it could cost chaos.

1:38:07What if I just have like an earpiece and Wags is just like now say cruising. I know you haven't seen it but pretend. Keep pretending. That was the first five years of the big picture. The Avengers not to be boring. Oh yeah, that's right. That was a guy who really likes the Avengers here. I'm going to start crying. They have the Battle of New York in that movie. I don't know if you remember. That's right. Oh yeah. What happened? They got like the shawarma. What's up with the Chitauri? What's up with the Chitauri? I don't know. We treated them very poorly. Aronofsky, you know, I don't like caught stealing, but Requiem for a Dream is a great Coney Island movie.

1:38:45Pie is also. It's a great New York movie. It has great subway stuff. Also about the Mets. Yeah. Yep. Noah. Noah, that was all shot in New York. Early New York. Very early New York. He shot the whole thing in the East River. It's crazy. That's the original forced water landing. we've officially entered just naming movies territory yeah just how I know we are at the end you know season 2 of Rescue Me I could go on season 1 of Rescue Me yeah that's true everybody meet David outside he'll be just saying the names of films for roughly 4 hours we can do this all night just like Captain America um hey QR code QR code we're gonna vote now yeah so you guys you get to vote yeah oh la la up on the screen you'll see okay you all know what to do while you're voting, we're going to run through our picks.

1:39:34So Chris, why don't you read your picks from this draft? In drama, I took cruising. In comedy, After Hours. In action horror thriller, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Oscar winner was All That Jazz. Blockbuster was DH with a V. And Subway was The French Connection. It's really funny that that was the first pick overall. I fucking nailed it. Yeah, you did. In drama, I took 25th Hour. in comedy, Working Girl. In action horror thriller, The Thomas Crown Affair, 1999. In Oscar winner, Michael Clayton. In blockbuster, You've Got Mail. And in Subway, Francis Ha. Griffin. In drama, I paid my respects to an American hero named Captain Chesley Sullenberger.

1:40:21In comedy, I kind of snuck a psychological thriller in there called The Muppets Take Manhattan. Action horror thriller, The Warriors Dog Day Afternoon an Oscar winner for Screenplay When Harry Met Sally for Blockbuster and in Subway I took Spider-Man 2 in Drama I took Taxi Driver in Comedy I took The Wolf of Wall Street in Action Horror Thriller I took Uncut Gems in Oscar Winner I took Goodfellas perhaps you've heard of it in Blockbuster I took Ghostbusters in Subway I took Dress to Kill for me in Drama I took Do the Right Thing Comedy I took Royal Tenenbaums Action Horror Thriller who took American Psycho, Oscar winner, Godfather Part 2, Blockbuster Men in Black, and my subway movie was The Taking Impel in 1, 2, 3.

1:41:06I think David's going to win. You do. I think David's going to win. David's going to win. Yeah. Okay. Sean, you, I don't know. Adam bombs do the right thing, and Men in Black is powerful. You two weren't here will vote for Sean. Like, you two weren't here? Yeah, dude. All my underground men? Yeah. But like, what if, wait, if the 155 souls that Sully saved are here, Griffin's got a big shot. Yeah. And thank God he saved them. He did. Where would this draft be without that moment? How long do we take? We got to wait roughly 80 minutes. Are you guys okay with that? To calculate the scores? Jack is saying 30 more seconds and he's doing this.

1:41:4230 more. He's giving us hands. Yeah, he's doing baseball. How the Phillies doing? What's going on? Oh, no. What happened? It's the top of the ninth. It's 5-3 Dodgers. Okay. Oh, my word. It's bad? 5-3 in the top of the net. Ohani went 0 for 4. Ohani, sorry. Okay. All right, I feel comfortable calling this race. Okay, it's time? It's time. Yeah. In fifth place, Christopher Ryan. That's fucking crazy. For the record, Die Hard with a Vengeance, amazing pick. Okay. Fourth place, Griffin Newman. Oh. Spoke too many truths here tonight. Yeah. You did. You did. You kept it too real. Yep. In third place, Sean Fennessey.

1:42:29Oh, wow. All right, David, you want to hold hands with me? Absolutely. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Just like Miss America. Wow. Okay. Oh, look at all these guys. In second place, Amanda Dobbins. Wow. Which means David has won the New York City movie draft. High five. Come on. Well done. All right. David Sims is your winner. Tonight, he's your winner. But go to your ballot box. Stuff it. If you're in line, stay in line. I have a great many people to thank. So first of all, thank you so much to Griffin and David. If you're not listening to Blank Check, please start doing so. One of the very best podcasts in the world.

1:43:18Thank you to Jack Sanders, whose voice you've heard all night. He's the producer of our show. Thank you so much to Elizabeth, Helen, and Charlie from our events team who killed it. Thank you to LinkedIn Ads for supporting this episode. Thank you to Criterion for putting 4Ks in your hands. Thank you to CR.

1:43:45Who is my brother and drafted DH with a V first overall at the New York City movie draft. Thank you to New York City. Yes. Thank you to all of you. Which is the best city in the world. Yeah. Thanks to all of you. Thanks for having us. Thanks for caring about this and listening. Thank you to my in-laws for driving from Philadelphia. And thank you, Sean, I guess. Yes. I guess. Amanda, good job. We're not making eye contact. I just want to point out later this week on the podcast, We'll be talking about the greatest actor of his generation, and we'll see you then.

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