Dirty Old New York aka Fun City, Part IV

Part IV.  Baseball, punk vs. disco, Travolta vs. Gere, Blaxploitation, teen romance, goofball cops, crooked cops, fake cops, Gordon Parks movies, Gordon Parks Jr. movies, Joe Spinell, and a whole lot more...

Dirty Old New York aka Fun City, Part IV from Jonathan Hertzberg on Vimeo.

Fifth and final installment (for sure, this time) to follow.

The opening logo card is the 1976 Columbia Pictures logo (with Suzanne Ciani theme music).

Dirty Old New York aka Fun City

I continue my Dirty Old New York video essay series with Dirty Old New York aka Fun City, Part I and Part II.  Dirty Old New York Subway can be seen here.

All shots are connected by at least one of the following: location, film, character, actor, signage, recurring object, or recurring motif.  Try and see how many of these connections you can spot and how many films you can identify.  This is a fluid piece and probably will be revised and / or supplemented with additional footage.  I'm going to wrap this up with a forthcoming Part III.



I've tried to source everything from 16x9 DVDs, but have had to compromise this standard in some cases.