The Naked CityJules Dassin
USA · 1948 Shot on location, often undercover, Jules Dassin’s breathtakingly vivid noir captures the promise and the perils of the Big Apple. “One great-looking movie… a virtual time capsule of life in post-war NYC” – TCM Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
Sweet Smell of SuccessAlexander Mackendrick
USA · 1957 Broadway has never been as seductive or as menacing as it is in this bitter farce about a venomous gossip columnist (Burt Lancaster) and his soulless lackey (Tony Curtis). “A delirious, almost nostalgic wallow in old-school corruption” – Criterion Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
Taxi DriverMartin Scorsese
USA · 1976 Scorsese’s excoriating thriller captures Times Square as a miasma of XXX theatres, sex shops and peep shows, with Robert De Niro as the embittered vet who sees himself as its saviour. “Martin Scorsese's unflinching plunge into the darkest recesses of the human soul still feels painfully relevant” – Time Out Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |