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Nov 2, 2023 · In the first instalment with architect, author, and filmmaker James Sanders, we discuss his timeless and profound book, Celluloid Skyline: New York And The Movies, in which he explores how deeply one informs the other.
Though the pages of Celluloid Skyline span more than a century—from the decades before World War I, when film pioneers shot in the actual city, through the rise of an invented New York in the Hollywood studio era of the 1930s and ‘40s, to the postwar period, when the film industry returned to the streets—the book is thus not chronological ...
Unfortunately, where is does fall short is in the area of referencing actual geographic film locations. It will mention a film title and include an image, but often leave out the all-important location information, opting only to give reference to an district of Manhattan.
The month-long multimedia exhibition, based on Sanders’ classic book by the same name, relates the hundred-year plus history of filmmaking in and about New York City in a display of original scenic backings, film footage, production stills, and exhibition panels complete with quotes, location shots, art department drawings and renderings.
May 25, 2007 · The film begins on Madison Avenue — in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s famous cameos, the doors of a bus slam shut on him — then follows Grant for a drink in the Oak Bar at the Plaza Hotel. By the...
It was easy enough to find the film's inland locations and to admire the ingenuity with which the director Elia Kazan and the production designer Richard Day had combined two churches and two city squares into a single composite urban setting.
Celluloid Skyline: New York in the Movies, by James Sanders For decades, the world's most famous cityscape was manufactured on a Hollywood lot. Geoff Dyer finds out how movie New York went west...
