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NYC and Paris Film Locations: Billy Wilder’s and Sydney Pollack’s Sabrina
A classic love story, told in two different ways. Samuel A. Taylor’s romantic comedy play Sabrina Fair has been adapted twice for the silver screen. The first time was in 1954, filming on location in...
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Film Locations: “The Royal Tenenbaums,” Wes Anderson’s Only Film Set in NYC
Throughout his career, Wes Anderson has set each of his films in an idiosyncratic and highly stylized world. Yet, only one of his eight films is set in NYC: The Royal Tenebaums, widely considered his...
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“AHOY SEXY!”: NYC Film Locations for Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha
Noah Baumbach’s 2013 comedy-drama Frances Ha, follows a 27 year old directionless alternative dancer named Frances (played by the director’s wife Greta Gerwig), who is trying to figure out her life. We...
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#MonthofScorsese: NYC Film Locations for Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets
Martin Scorsese on the corner of Hester & Baxter Streets 1973 (Photo via The Hollywood Reporter) This April, we at Untapped Cities have decided to pay homage to one of the most influential and...
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#MonthofScorsese: 10 NYC Film Locations for Taxi Driver
Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese filming Taxi Driver (Photo via The Hollywood Reporter) This is our second installment in our month long look back at the NYC films of Martin Scorsese. This week, we...
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#MonthofScorsese: NYC Film Locations for Martin Scorsese’s After Hours
Martin Scorsese & Griffin Dunne (Photo via Hazardous Operations) In the mid 80’s Martin Scorsese was not in a good place career-wise. You would think that after making films like Mean Streets, Taxi...
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#MonthOfScorsese: NYC Film Locations for Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas
Marin Scorsese Directing Robert De Niro (Photo Via Phaidon) For our last installment in the #MonthofScorsese film location series, we cover the film that many consider to be his magnum opus: The 1990...
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10 NYC Film Locations for Sam Raimi’s Original Spider-Man
This might be hard to believe, but there was a time when people thought that superhero movies were just a passing faze. Shocking, but true. While Bryan Singer’s 2000 film X-Men is credited with...
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Film Locations: 10 Places Where Louis CK Shot “Louie” Season One in NYC
Though 20 months have passed since the last episode premiered, Louis C.K. has not been sitting idly back, reveling in his success as a stand-up comic and a television auteur. In the almost two years...
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NYC Film Locations for 1998’s Failed Godzilla Revival by Ronald Emmerich
Today, thousands of people will go to theaters nationwide to see the newest adaptation of Ishiro Honda’s iconic 1954 science-fiction movie Godzilla. This is the 30th original film featuring the iconic...
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Tribute to Gordon Willis: 10 NYC Film Locations for Woody Allen’s Manhattan
Gordon Willis, who passed away last Sunday, shot some of the most iconic films of the 1970s. Called “The Prince of Darkness,” Willis loved to film dark shadows with minimal lighting. His style was...
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NYC Film Locations for NBC’s Hit Show The Blacklist
The Blacklist was the highest rated new show of the 2013 fall television season and one of the first to get renewed for a second season. Many critics have wrote favorably about the show’s lead star...
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Untapped Mailbag: What’s the Restaurant on the Finale of Broad City?
It’s been a while since our last Untapped Mailbag in which we answer questions from readers, submitted via Twitter, Facebook or e-mail. But we received quite a challenge from reader Hanna, who wanted...
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NYC Film Locations: Broad City Season 2 on Comedy Central
The gals of Broad City are back, providing a refreshing anti-dote to Girls. Last season, we charted the NYC film locations of the show and dug into some hard-to-find spots requested by readers of...
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NYC Film Locations: Birdman by Alejandro González Iñárritu with Michael Keaton
Birdman, the 2015 Best Picture Academy Award winner was shot in New York City, telling the story of a washed up superhero actor played by Michael Keaton, looking to make his comeback in a play he has...
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Film Locations for Downton Abbey: Film Locations for Downton Abbey: Highclere...
As season 5 of Downton Abbey has come to close, we thought it was high time we updated our list of film locations for the popular British television show. Here are 10 notable spots from the first five...
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Film Locations: AMC TURN About Spy Ring in Revolutionary War Setauket and NYC
Let’s be clear off the bat: the AMC show, TURN: Washington’s Spies, about the Culper Spy Ring that was based in Setauket, Long Island, is filmed in Richmond, Virginia. Given that Setauket has evolved...
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10 NYC Film Locations For Marvel Studio’s Netflix Series “Daredevil”
The first of four Netflix original series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Daredevil is the second attempt to bring the character known as “The Man Without Fear” on screen. The plot focuses on...
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Behind the Scenes on the NYC Set of The Knick, Steven Soderbergh’s Medical...
The Knick’s Surgery Room This week, we were invited to view the New York City set of Cinemax’s The Knick, Steven Soderbergh’s medical drama set in early 1900s. A few months back, we researched and...
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20 Film Locations Worldwide from Game of Thrones: By Kingdom from Kings...
In many ways, Game of Thrones, the HBO television show, has come into its own this fifth season, diverging, fast-forwarding and reimagining the all-encompassing books by George R.R. Martin. The early...
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