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

Live from New York, it’s 'Saturday Night'! Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan, plus Griffin Newman and David Sims of the Blank Check podcast, to draft their favorite New York City movies of all time. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Chris Ryan, Griffin Newman, and David Sims Producers: Jack Sanders, Elizabeth Fierman, Helen Eichner, Charlie Finan, and Mike Wargon Unlock an extra $250 at linkedin.com/thebigpicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:09Sean Fennessey?

  I'm Sean Finacy.

• 0:10Amanda Dobbins?

  I'm Amanda Dobbins.

• 0:11Sean Fennessey?

  And this is The Big Picture, a conversation show about New York City.

• 0:25Sean Fennessey?

  OK, enough.

• 0:26Amanda Dobbins?

  All right, OK, OK. Thank you.

• 0:30Sean Fennessey?

  As you may have surmised based on the boards behind us, we will be drafting tonight.

• 0:38Sean Fennessey?

  What are we drafting?

• 0:40Amanda Dobbins?

  New York City.

• 0:43Sean Fennessey?

  So New York City movies. We do have some special guests. Before we bring them out, one, I would like to say thank you to LinkedIn Ads for sponsoring this event, which is really appreciative of. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you to the 92nd Street Y. This is very special.

• 0:57Amanda Dobbins?

  Thank you to all of you for coming.

• 0:59Sean Fennessey?

  When I moved to New York in 2004, I lived on 93rd and 3rd, and I came here all the time. So this is weird.

• 1:08Sean Fennessey?

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• 1:48Sean Fennessey?

  Before we begin, we're gonna do some trivia. The trivia is sponsored by our friends at the Criterion Collection. If you get a trivia question correct, you will get a special bag full of some Criterion-sponsored stuff. If you're here, I'm assuming you love physical media.

• 2:15Sean Fennessey?

  What do you want to say about the trivia?

• 2:17Amanda Dobbins?

  We wrote it ourselves, and it is quite hard. This is going to be an honor system situation. That when we were in Chicago, Sean was very clear, you know, no goofy stuff. Okay, if you raise your hand and you don't, it's okay if you don't know the answer. And it's okay if you have a really good joke, but it should be like excellent. Otherwise, you know, we're all going to work together. I have great news for the balcony. You guys are in game this time, okay? I do, I want to let everyone at the balcony know, and in the very back, kind of under the balcony, that it is hard to see you right now. So you're gonna need to wave, you're gonna, you know, if you know it, be confident.

• 3:00Sean Fennessey?

  Don't yell.

• 3:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, don't, and don't yell out the answer. The microphone is going to come to you. It is your moment.

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• 4:37Sean Fennessey?

  Let's start.

• 4:38Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 4:39Sean Fennessey?

  So, we're gonna, we're gonna read the question, and you're gonna raise your hand, and you're gonna act like a civilized person. Amanda, I think, I think you wrote the first question, did you not?

• 4:47Amanda Dobbins?

  I did. Hold on, I'm just loading it. I'm not on my phone right now. Okay. This is a fairly easy one. Oh, good, they changed lights. But still, you know, be aggressive. Be, believe in yourself if you know it. Name five best picture winners set in New York City. Okay, well, you, you know, it's sort of a Jeopardy thing for you, where you do have to wait till it's done, but he was very early. Okay, everybody else.

• 5:12Sean Fennessey?

  There's a, there's a, there's a man on the far right side who waved both hands, which means he definitely can do this. Don't screw this up, sir.

• 5:20Amanda Dobbins?

  Stand up, come on!

• 5:21Sean Fennessey?

  Stand up, please.

• 5:23Amanda Dobbins?

  All right.

• 5:24Sean Fennessey?

  Don't applaud him. Save your applause for after he's answered the question, please.

• 5:32Amanda Dobbins?

  One.

• 5:33Speaker 06

  Kramer vs. Kramer.

• 5:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Two.

• 5:35Speaker 06

  Birdman.

• 5:37Amanda Dobbins?

  Three.

• 5:38Speaker 06

  Godfather.

• 5:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Four.

• 5:45Speaker 06

  Annie Hall.

• 5:46Amanda Dobbins?

  Five!

• 5:46Sean Fennessey?

  Five!

• 5:53Amanda Dobbins?

  The question is, would you have accepted Godfather 2?

• 5:57Sean Fennessey?

  Godfather 2?

• 5:58Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 5:59Sean Fennessey?

  Abs, I would argue Godfather 2 is the superior New York movie.

• 6:02Amanda Dobbins?

  I agree, you know, but it is, you know, more spread out.

• 6:06Sean Fennessey?

  Sure, but, I mean, we're literally coming off of Ellis Island into New York City.

• 6:10Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, I get it, okay.

• 6:12Sean Fennessey?

  Uh, second question. New York filmmaking icon Spike Lee has never won Best Director at the Oscars. Boo. But this classmate and friend of his from NYU Film School has won twice. Who is the director? Right here in the front, this... That is the first hand I saw.

• 6:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Is it Ang Lee?

• 6:37Sean Fennessey?

  That's correct.

• 6:38Amanda Dobbins?

  All right.

• 6:46Amanda Dobbins?

  All right. You ask the next one, and then I'll do number four.

• 6:49Sean Fennessey?

  OK, one more Oscars question, and we're done with that. This recent Academy Award winner's second and third features, films are featured in the Criterion Collection. Who is the director in question, and what are the films? Right here. These are hard, guys.

• 7:09Speaker 07

  Oh, now I'm scared. Is it Sean Baker with The Prince of Broadway and Enora?

• 7:15Sean Fennessey?

  You've got two of three.

• 7:17Speaker 07

  Takeout, can I say takeout? Can I do it?

• 7:19Amanda Dobbins?

  Come on, yes. Hi, counsel, it's you. Congratulations.

• 7:22Speaker 07

  I forgot the question.

• 7:23Amanda Dobbins?

  There we go.

• 7:25Sean Fennessey?

  Was that the only person who raised their hand for that answer? Did anybody else even raise their hand?

• 7:31Amanda Dobbins?

  All right. We're changing lanes here a little. Where in New York City does the devil wears Prada's Andy Sachs pick up an early galley of the last Harry Potter book? OK, right there, front and center. You can do it.

• 7:50Speaker 08

  Doesn't she meet his character at the St. Regis Hotel to pick it up from Christian Thompson?

• 7:55Amanda Dobbins?

  Can you name the room?

• 7:58Speaker 08

  The Magnolia Room?

• 7:59Amanda Dobbins?

  So close, and it's not. And I'm really, but I-

• 8:02Sean Fennessey?

  That is incorrect.

• 8:06Amanda Dobbins?

  OK, all right, you're waving. We have one back here who's waving. I'm really, listen, you're very close. Yeah, back there, double hands. There, that's right, there you go. That's some real Amanda I know the answer energy. I do know the answer. It is the King Cole bar. Bingo.

• 8:23Sean Fennessey?

  That's correct.

• 8:25Amanda Dobbins?

  It's, you should go. It is very fun.

• 8:29Sean Fennessey?

  Well done. OK, this is a long one. 13 feature films directed by Martin Scorsese are primarily set in New York. Name 10.

• 8:42Sean Fennessey?

  Green hat on the end here.

• 8:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Ringer hat, alright.

• 8:44Sean Fennessey?

  Thank you for wearing a ringer hat. I wish I had one of those.

• 8:49Sean Fennessey?

  I am nervous. Okay, so we got Goodfellas. Yes. Taxi Driver. Yes. Wolf of Wall Street. Yes. Gangs of New York. Yes. This is four. Six more. This is not hard.

• 9:04Sean Fennessey?

  Mean Streets. Yes.

• 9:08Sean Fennessey?

  No hints, please.

• 9:11Amanda Dobbins?

  Listen, but don't turn away free knowledge that's given to you also.

• 9:16Sean Fennessey?

  That is very fair. If you cannot get it, someone will be able to pick up right where you left off. Okay, uh. Tap in.

• 9:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, that's nice. I have love for all of you right now.

• 9:28Sean Fennessey?

  Want to choose someone?

• 9:29Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're waving.

• 9:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, good.

• 9:36Speaker 09

  Do I get his four?

• 9:38Sean Fennessey?

  You get his five, yes, he got five.

• 9:40Amanda Dobbins?

  But can you remember which five they are? And can we?

• 9:44Sean Fennessey?

  Did he say Mean? If you repeat one of his five, you have to leave the show.

• 9:49Sean Fennessey?

  I got it, I got it. Did he say Mean Streets? He did. Alright, okay, so let's work chronologically. Did he say Taxi? Folks, if you don't know the answers, don't raise your hand. I know the answer. Taxi Driver, did he say Taxi? New York, New York, let's just, let's get on the board. New York, New York is six. New York, New York.

• 10:08Sean Fennessey?

  Keep going. Sir, this is being recorded. Gangs of New York, Age of Innocence.

• 10:16Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, that was one.

• 10:17Sean Fennessey?

  Age of Innocence, yes, that's seven. I'm gonna say Safely Not Kundun.

• 10:23Sean Fennessey?

  Gangs of New York.

• 10:27Sean Fennessey?

  King of Comedy, definitely in 83, technically 83.

• 10:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Wait, does that count?

• 10:33Sean Fennessey?

  What did he say?

• 10:34Amanda Dobbins?

  He said King of Comedy, but.

• 10:35Sean Fennessey?

  King of Comedy, yes, that counts. How many am I at? That's three, you need two more. Okay, two more. We are gonna turn a clock on. Not Silence. We have to leave here by a certain time. Hugo is in France.

• 10:46Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 10:49Sean Fennessey?

  Raging Bull? Raging Bull, yes, that's nine.

• 10:51Amanda Dobbins?

  That's what this was, by the way, in case anyone was.

• 10:53Sean Fennessey?

  Boxcar Bertha? Pardon me? Boxcar Bertha, no. Boxcar Bertha is not a New York film.

• 10:59Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. But listen, a valiant effort.

• 11:02Sean Fennessey?

  Okay, so we need one more.

• 11:06Sean Fennessey?

  You pick, I'm not picking.

• 11:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, alright.

• 11:09Sean Fennessey?

  I said After Hours.

• 11:10Amanda Dobbins?

  Striped shirt waving double hands, okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 11:14Speaker 10

  Number 10 is The Irishman.

• 11:16Amanda Dobbins?

  There we go.

• 11:17Sean Fennessey?

  That's correct.

• 11:21Amanda Dobbins?

  That was sort of a team effort, so if you want to share your Blu-rays, you know, it's really up to you.

• 11:27Sean Fennessey?

  You probably should share your Blu-rays, that's something I would recommend. Questions, answers we did not hear from that category. Who's That Knocking at My Door, his first feature film? After Hours? Shame, shame on you guys. And Bringing Out the Dead.

• 11:45Sean Fennessey?

  Okay, next one.

• 11:47Amanda Dobbins?

  One of the New York City movie discs in the gift bag is The Day Trippers, a Long Island to New York City family dramedy that Sean adores. 11 years transpired between The Day Trippers and director Greg Mottola's next film. What was it? I mean, you were in my sightline, but yeah. Superbad. Correct.

• 12:06Sean Fennessey?

  Superbad is correct.

• 12:07Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, Superbad.

• 12:12Sean Fennessey?

  Okay, we have four more questions. Four more gift bags. Alfred Hitchcock rarely featured New York City in his work, but the conclusion of one of his movies is set at the top of the Statue of Liberty. What is the film? This guy right here is the first hand I saw.

• 12:32Sean Fennessey?

  Saboteur. That's right. Saboteur.

• 12:39Sean Fennessey?

  You want to do, do you want to do?

• 12:41Amanda Dobbins?

  This one?

• 12:41Sean Fennessey?

  The nine and then I'll do eight? What's your preference?

• 12:45Amanda Dobbins?

  I mean...

• 12:45Sean Fennessey?

  Why don't you do the next two?

• 12:46Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. I mean, I wrote the last three, but that's okay.

• 12:52Amanda Dobbins?

  In When Harry Met Sally, of course, typecasting, the iconic "I'll have what she's having" scene takes place at Kat's deli.

• 13:04Amanda Dobbins?

  I like the enthusiasm.

• 13:08Amanda Dobbins?

  After Sally concludes her fake orgasm, she calmly takes a bite of food. What does she eat? All right, I saw you over there. Yes, in the, yes, yeah?

• 13:18Speaker 11

  A turkey sandwich?

• 13:19Amanda Dobbins?

  No. Okay, all right, yes. Enthusiasm.

• 13:23Sean Fennessey?

  Wait, wait for a microphone.

• 13:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, yeah, wait for a mic.

• 13:27Sean Fennessey?

  By the way, I wrote this question. You didn't write this question.

• 13:29Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, that's right, you did write this one. Yeah, sorry. Sorry.

• 13:33Speaker 06

  It is, what is a pastrami sandwich?

• 13:35Sean Fennessey?

  No.

• 13:35Amanda Dobbins?

  No. Okay, all right, right here? Yeah, okay. The Yankees hat is an interesting choice for the show, but we'll give it to you anyway. I heard it wasn't going well.

• 13:44Sean Fennessey?

  A Reuben.

• 13:45Amanda Dobbins?

  No. Oh, now it's getting tricky. Back there, on the aisle, in the whites, in the white sweater.

• 13:51Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah, you don't listen to women. That's the problem.

• 13:56Amanda Dobbins?

  It's a white sweater, v-neck, it's great. Kohl's law? Yes, Kohl's law.

• 14:01Sean Fennessey?

  Kohl's law is correct. Because of course you have to get Kohl's law at Katz's Deli. Okay, next one.

• 14:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, sorry. My phone locked. What is the address of the Tenenbaum family home in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums? Ooh. Oh, we've got it, in the back, two of you. Okay.

• 14:21Speaker 06

  111 Archer Avenue.

• 14:22Amanda Dobbins?

  There we go.

• 14:23Sean Fennessey?

  Very good. Very good. I wouldn't have been able to get that.

• 14:30Sean Fennessey?

  Okay. Our final trivia question. This is the last one.

• 14:37Sean Fennessey?

  What time is it?

• 14:42Speaker 12

  This is, this is a key tenet. It's a key tenet of the rebellion. I'm surprised you can't name it.

• 14:56Speaker 12

  What's up? New York.

• 15:00Speaker 12

  What's going on?

• 15:02Sean Fennessey?

  Okay.

• 15:03Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, there you go. All right, there's a, in the center, up top, in the, yeah.

• 15:09Sean Fennessey?

  Center in the balcony, up top, with the beard, yes.

• 15:12Amanda Dobbins?

  Wait for the mic, wait for the mic, wait for the mic.

• 15:13Sean Fennessey?

  Yes, wait for the mic. Don't clap, sir. Please be patient. This is the rebellion. We're not trying to rush our meal at McDonald's.

• 15:21Speaker 10

  Time doesn't exist, yet it controls us anyway.

• 15:23Sean Fennessey?

  That's correct.

• 15:31Speaker 12

  That is my favorite line from Tron Aries, man.

• 15:35Amanda Dobbins?

  If there are any long-suffering significant others in attendance, number one, welcome. Thank you. And number two, that is a reference to Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, One Battle After Another.

• 15:49Sean Fennessey?

  Chris Ryan is here.

• 15:50Speaker 12

  What's up?

• 15:54Sean Fennessey?

  We would never draft without Chris Ryan, but we were talking about what would be the best way to have a New York City movie draft. And we have two very close friends who live in New York City. We're gonna bring them right out right now. From Blank Check, David Sims and Griffin Newman.

• 16:20Speaker 07

  Hello.

• 16:22Speaker 12

  Hey, guys.

• 16:27Sean Fennessey?

  It's the Mets.

• 16:29Speaker 12

  Hey, guys.

• 16:30Speaker 07

  They're gonna, they're gonna put your, your three names up there at the end of the night, right? Emerson, Einstein.

• 16:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Sure, yeah.

• 16:37Speaker 07

  Bach, Beethoven, Fantasy, Dobbins, Ryan.

• 16:39Sean Fennessey?

  It's quite embarrassing. James Baldwin was once in this room.

• 16:42Speaker 12

  What are we doing here?

• 16:42Sean Fennessey?

  Susan Sontag. You know, I got a whole history of the 92nd Street Y.

• 16:46Speaker 12

  Top five Y's. Where's this one ranked for you?

• 16:50Sean Fennessey?

  Technically 92 for me.

• 16:51Speaker 12

  Okay, yeah.

• 16:52Sean Fennessey?

  So, five movie podcasters on one stage.

• 16:57Sean Fennessey?

  Before we draft, we usually talk about the subject of the draft and what it means to us. Now, all five of us have, have lived inside of this city. We've spent some time here. The three of us no longer do.

• 17:07Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 17:08Sean Fennessey?

  On any regular basis.

• 17:09Speaker 12

  Cowards.

• 17:13Amanda Dobbins?

  I accept.

• 17:14Speaker 12

  Yeah, you know.

• 17:16Speaker 07

  That's, I mean, David's joking. It's very generous of you three to invite us onto the show tonight. I think what he meant to say is you're quitters.

• 17:27Sean Fennessey?

  Be that as it may. Chris Ryan, why don't I start with you?

• 17:29Speaker 12

  Okay.

• 17:30Sean Fennessey?

  New York City.

• 17:30Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 17:31Sean Fennessey?

  What does it mean to you? And what does it mean to the movies?

• 17:34Speaker 12

  Well, this is gonna be a really fun draft and a very easy draft to prepare for, because these are just the best movies.

• 17:41Sean Fennessey?

  That's true.

• 17:42Speaker 12

  Sometimes we set ourselves very difficult challenges when it comes to like draft topics, but this isn't one of them. You go through the list of New York movies, it's pretty routine, like, oh, this is like my third favorite movie. I'll just put it right here. So I'm excited to do this. New York City, what does it mean to me? I mean, I spent 11 years here. It has always like occupied a huge part of my imagination, doing no small part to the movies that we're gonna talk about tonight.

• 18:07Sean Fennessey?

  Amanda, what about you?

• 18:08Amanda Dobbins?

  I mean, same. I moved here in 2006, right after college, because of all the things that I saw in the movies. So it's, I miss it very much. I'm really, really glad to be back right now. And, you know, I grew up here. I think like not, you know, I was a child somewhere else, but I learned everything that I think is worth knowing.

• 18:28Speaker 12

  Right.

• 18:28Amanda Dobbins?

  And met most everyone that I think is worth knowing, including everyone on this stage in New York City. So I'm very glad to be back.

• 18:36Speaker 12

  Amanda, did you move here before or after Devil Wears Prada?

• 18:40Amanda Dobbins?

  It was-

• 18:41Speaker 12

  Same year.

• 18:41Amanda Dobbins?

  So, same year. And I saw it, it was the summer after I graduated college, and I saw it at, I think, the 80, where, on the Upper West Side?

• 18:50Speaker 12

  84th Street Lowe's.

• 18:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 18:52Sean Fennessey?

  I'll help you.

• 18:52Amanda Dobbins?

  That's where it was.

• 18:53Speaker 12

  It was a Lowe's back in the day.

• 18:55Amanda Dobbins?

  And I remember being like, yeah, this is it. This is exactly what I was born to do. And then, you know, other things happened.

• 19:00Sean Fennessey?

  Griffin, I think you're the only one of us that was born and fully raised here. Is that right?

• 19:05Speaker 12

  David, right? You grew up in New York and lived here your entire life?

• 19:08Sean Fennessey?

  Get the fuck out of here! Set that up for you. That shit is illegal. Put that on the T for Blank Check fans.

• 19:13Speaker 12

  Yeah, no, I'm born and bred and broken. I tried to go to college in California and ran back screaming.

• 19:20Sean Fennessey?

  It spat him back out.

• 19:21Speaker 12

  It spat me back out. I spat back at them, but they had one. It was more a-

• 19:26Sean Fennessey?

  Well, let me ask you about that, since-

• 19:27Speaker 12

  ...opposite thing, yeah.

• 19:27Sean Fennessey?

  You lived here, so the movies maybe held a little bit of the less like magical appeal, having been inside of it while seeing the movies.

• 19:36Speaker 07

  Yes, but I do, I do feel like even the most gritty, neorealistic New York movies do kind of present a more ecstatic version of New York, you know? There are obviously a great many like stylized fantastical movies that are here, a New York that could never quite exist, but even when you see like the down and dirty New York movies, you're like, yeah. It's never quite the reflection of what's out your window.

• 20:01Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 20:02Sean Fennessey?

  David, what about your circuitous route back here?

• 20:05Speaker 11

  I did, I left at the age of nine and came back at the age of 22 and I spent the intervening years falling in love with movies.

• 20:12Sean Fennessey?

  But where, where were?

• 20:13Speaker 11

  All right. London, England, baby. Woo! Um, North London, go, go Gunners.

• 20:22Sean Fennessey?

  I figured that, I figured that'd land. All right. You know what? You know what? Not on my podcast.

• 20:30Speaker 11

  Thank you.

• 20:32Speaker 12

  I don't know what's happening right now.

• 20:34Speaker 11

  And I think I spent, I spent all my adolescence being like, I'm a New Yorker and then watching all these movies and like it becoming very religious for me, but like, yes, again, somewhat romantic vision of the city, even at its dirtiest, like me being like, I gotta get back there. And I got back here and here I am. Let's go Mets.

• 20:51Sean Fennessey?

  Let's go Mets. I couldn't agree with that more. So many sad Yankee fans out there tonight. Sorry, guys. Um, I grew up on Long Island.

• 21:00Speaker 12

  Yeah, I was gonna say, how are they doing?

• 21:03Speaker 11

  Phillies are winning?

• 21:04Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 21:05Sean Fennessey?

  Phillies are what?

• 21:06Speaker 11

  They're winning.

• 21:07Sean Fennessey?

  We do like every 20 minutes, get a Phillies score update?

• 21:08Speaker 12

  Yeah. If the Phillies continue to win, feel free to shout out.

• 21:11Speaker 11

  Did they pull Shohei? Is he off already? Yeah.

• 21:14Sean Fennessey?

  Um, yeah, I'm from Long Island, so I felt

• 21:19Speaker 11

  No, he's still pitching.

• 21:20Sean Fennessey?

  Very close to, but not a part of New York City, which is an unusual way to grow up. Most of my family is from New York City. And I, I probably

• 21:30Sean Fennessey?

  I revered it more because I felt that close to it. And then by the time I was a teenager, it started coming all the time. But I too also felt formed by watching it on the big screen and hearing about people who lived there and the things that they were doing, which always seemed much more interesting than the things that I was doing. And then I moved here and it was cold and mean. And I was like, I gotta get out of here. And I did, but I'm happy to be back. So we are going to draft. We have six categories to draft from here. So if you're here in the audience, you can see them on the big board. The categories are drama, comedy, action, horror, thriller, Oscar winner, box office, and subway.

• 22:12Speaker 07

  Those are sandwich movies?

• 22:14Sean Fennessey?

  No.

• 22:14Speaker 07

  The last category?

• 22:15Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah.

• 22:15Speaker 07

  It is funny you ended up with basically the exact-

• 22:17Speaker 12

  Favorite five dollar foot long.

• 22:18Speaker 07

  Subway logo and the color scheme.

• 22:20Speaker 12

  It's true.

• 22:23Sean Fennessey?

  No free ads?

• 22:25Speaker 07

  Uh huh.

• 22:27Speaker 12

  You're just the guy to revive Subway's fortunes. You're just like the straight shooters, just like, I'm gonna bring sandwiches back in this country.

• 22:42Sean Fennessey?

  No comment. Subway, of course, is any movie that features an iconic subway scene. So think hard in the recesses of your mind about movies that you like that-

• 22:52Amanda Dobbins?

  You just introduced iconic into the conversation.

• 22:55Speaker 12

  That was just him being lazy. It can just be a subway scene. It doesn't have to be iconic.

• 22:59Sean Fennessey?

  Any subway scene?

• 23:00Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes.

• 23:01Sean Fennessey?

  Like man gets on subway in a movie?

• 23:03Amanda Dobbins?

  Well, yeah.

• 23:04Sean Fennessey?

  That sounds terrible. Why would you draft that?

• 23:06Speaker 07

  We're deeming it iconic. That's the meaning.

• 23:08Speaker 12

  If you drafted it-

• 23:09Amanda Dobbins?

  If you remember that it happened.

• 23:11Sean Fennessey?

  Guys, I made this rule. What are you talking about?

• 23:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, but you're not, you did not add that information until this-

• 23:18Speaker 12

  You said pivotal. Pivotal scene.

• 23:20Sean Fennessey?

  I said pivotal.

• 23:21Speaker 12

  Explaced on a subway.

• 23:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 23:23Sean Fennessey?

  Pivotal?

• 23:23Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 23:23Amanda Dobbins?

  I accept.

• 23:24Sean Fennessey?

  Okay.

• 23:24Speaker 07

  I have, I have a genuine question on this topic. Must one board the train for it to count as a subway scene?

• 23:33Sean Fennessey?

  I don't think so.

• 23:34Speaker 07

  It can be within the station?

• 23:35Sean Fennessey?

  Interesting.

• 23:35Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 23:35Sean Fennessey?

  I don't, I don't, what do you guys think?

• 23:37Amanda Dobbins?

  No, no, no.

• 23:38Sean Fennessey?

  If you're in a station, you are in the subway, I would say. Yeah. Like if you, you know, if you've gone down to the platform or whatever, you're at the subway. You're in the subway. I rode the subway five times yesterday and it's still annoying. Give me your lines. Hey, fuck you!

• 23:54Speaker 11

  We love the subway.

• 23:54Sean Fennessey?

  What lines was I on? R?

• 23:56Speaker 11

  Great.

• 23:57Sean Fennessey?

  You got?

• 23:57Speaker 11

  It's a bad train.

• 23:58Sean Fennessey?

  You guys paid for this.

• 24:00Speaker 11

  Keep going.

• 24:01Sean Fennessey?

  I was on the 2. I was on the F.

• 24:03Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 24:04Speaker 12

  Did you get asked for a subway take?

• 24:07Sean Fennessey?

  Did I get asked?

• 24:08Speaker 12

  You know, like?

• 24:08Sean Fennessey?

  Oh, no.

• 24:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, why are we on it so much?

• 24:09Sean Fennessey?

  If only.

• 24:09Speaker 12

  No.

• 24:10Sean Fennessey?

  No.

• 24:11Speaker 12

  Do you want to give it now?

• 24:12Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, what's yours?

• 24:12Speaker 12

  No, not one that I can share.

• 24:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 24:17Speaker 12

  They're largely about the sandwich company subway and...

• 24:23Sean Fennessey?

  Any stray subway thoughts before we figure out our draft order?

• 24:26Speaker 11

  Well, I asked if Gotham was eligible for this draft and you said, no, Gotham City.

• 24:31Sean Fennessey?

  Gotham is not a real city.

• 24:32Speaker 11

  Right, it's not a real city.

• 24:34Sean Fennessey?

  In the world of Batman, who is not a real person.

• 24:38Speaker 11

  You don't know that.

• 24:40Sean Fennessey?

  Is anyone here Batman tonight? Is Batman here?

• 24:45Speaker 11

  So Joker's not eligible for subway, for anything.

• 24:50Sean Fennessey?

  I mean, I don't think so. What do you? You want Gotham to be a part of the draft for tonight?

• 24:54Amanda Dobbins?

  No, I don't.

• 24:55Speaker 11

  I was just stirring things up.

• 24:56Amanda Dobbins?

  Hold on, though, hold on, because we have precedent.

• 25:00Amanda Dobbins?

  Dark Knight.

• 25:01Speaker 12

  It's a Chicago movie.

• 25:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Was it eligible in the Chicago draft?

• 25:04Sean Fennessey?

  I don't even, did it get drafted? You guys know better than we do.

• 25:07Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 25:07Amanda Dobbins?

  It did.

• 25:08Sean Fennessey?

  Who drafted it?

• 25:08Speaker 12

  I think I did.

• 25:09Sean Fennessey?

  Tracy Letts?

• 25:09Speaker 12

  No, I did.

• 25:11Sean Fennessey?

  Tracy Letts has not seen it.

• 25:12Speaker 12

  I don't think he's seen Dark Knight.

• 25:13Amanda Dobbins?

  But he owns the Blu-ray.

• 25:14Speaker 11

  Tracy, the trench run sucks, Letts.

• 25:21Speaker 11

  He just tossed that take out.

• 25:23Amanda Dobbins?

  It's great.

• 25:23Speaker 11

  He was just like, oh, by the way, trench run, ass.

• 25:26Speaker 12

  We all agree that Star Wars has a shitty ending. Waiting for you guys to jump in and high five.

• 25:32Amanda Dobbins?

  That was a good Tracy impression, even with the hand. Yeah.

• 25:34Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah.

• 25:35Amanda Dobbins?

  He loved Tracy.

• 25:36Sean Fennessey?

  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. We love you, Tracy.

• 25:45Speaker 12

  He's doomed to appear in a Disney Plus show about the trench run from a guy working on the Death Star's perspective? No!

• 25:53Sean Fennessey?

  Fuck! Why do we even have a trench? How did he make this shot?

• 26:02Sean Fennessey?

  Jack, you might have to delete all this. Speaking of Jack, we have to set our draft order. So, let's do that.

• 26:10Amanda Dobbins?

  Jack, can you tell us what kind of hat is being used tonight?

• 26:13Speaker 09

  Unfortunately, a New York Metropolitan's hat.

• 26:18Speaker 09

  Bring Pete back.

• 26:19Amanda Dobbins?

  You don't want to come out? You don't want a shining moment? I can see Jack.

• 26:22Speaker 09

  Bring Pete back, any cost.

• 26:23Sean Fennessey?

  I'm with you. I want to bring Pete back.

• 26:25Speaker 09

  People like the voice of God.

• 26:25Amanda Dobbins?

  All right. We love you.

• 26:27Speaker 09

  All right, here we go. No Top Gun hat. Shout out Bobby Wagner in the building.

• 26:32Sean Fennessey?

  Bobby!

• 26:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Where are you? Wave, Bob.

• 26:40Amanda Dobbins?

  I can't see Bob. Oh, there he is. Hi, Bob.

• 26:42Sean Fennessey?

  I'm seeing Wagner.

• 26:42Speaker 09

  Where is he?

• 26:43Sean Fennessey?

  I'm not worried about this.

• 26:47Sean Fennessey?

  Can see the mustache in the shadow.

• 26:49Speaker 09

  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.

• 26:56Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, wow. All right. Everyone, welcome Elizabeth.

• 27:03Speaker 09

  This is so official. Selecting second, Amanda Dobbins.

• 27:14Speaker 09

  Third will be Griffin Newman.

• 27:18Sean Fennessey?

  Wow.

• 27:20Speaker 09

  Fourth, Sean. Fifth...

• 27:23Amanda Dobbins?

  But you get the term.

• 27:24Speaker 09

  I'm right where I want to be, baby.

• 27:25Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, I was gonna say.

• 27:27Amanda Dobbins?

  All right.

• 27:30Sean Fennessey?

  So, we're gonna 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?

• 27:36Speaker 12

  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 gonna pick, while I'm picking it in Blockbuster, is also just the one that I think reflects my experience in New York the most.

• 27:52Sean Fennessey?

  Raging Bull.

• 27:54Speaker 12

  And it is Die Hard with a Vengeance.

• 27:57Sean Fennessey?

  Wow.

• 28:02Speaker 12

  A great pick. I worked tirelessly as a mime in Central Park. And you have no idea what taxicabs 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.

• 28:36Sean Fennessey?

  I think they're looking furiously for Die Hard with a Vengeance.

• 28:39Speaker 12

  Are you serious?

• 28:40Sean Fennessey?

  No one saw that coming as the first overall pick.

• 28:45Sean Fennessey?

  Did you know Martin Scorsese was born here?

• 28:47Speaker 12

  Yeah. I'll get Scorsese's down the line. I'll get all sorts of stuff.

• 28:52Amanda Dobbins?

  There are 13 of them.

• 28:53Speaker 12

  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.

• 29:03Sean Fennessey?

  Are you, are you like, how do you feel?

• 29:05Amanda Dobbins?

  I'm, I'm torn here because I definitely thought he was gonna pick another movie first pick. And I want it. And, and I do also, there's a strategic thing here, right? Where I, I am gonna have to wait for a while and there's some films I want that I know you two in particular will also want.

• 29:26Sean Fennessey?

  Wow.

• 29:27Amanda Dobbins?

  So.

• 29:28Sean Fennessey?

  Elizabeth is asking how to spell vengeance. She's like, what movie is this for the first overall pick?

• 29:33Speaker 12

  I really.

• 29:33Sean Fennessey?

  I love this movie. What are you talking about? I love this movie. I would never take it for the overall.

• 29:37Amanda Dobbins?

  They had like 3,000 cards printed and then we went off with the first one.

• 29:40Speaker 12

  You can still have Home Alone 2. It's okay.

• 29:46Speaker 12

  I know you love the supporting cast in that film.

• 29:48Sean Fennessey?

  Do you remember?

• 29:50Sean Fennessey?

  Do you remember we did, I want to say it was the 2013 movie draft? And see our ad in nowhere took Iron Man 3 first overall.

• 29:58Speaker 12

  Great movie.

• 29:59Speaker 07

  Best Marvel movie.

• 30:00Sean Fennessey?

  And it was a Marvel movie. We were in, it was in COVID and, and Amanda and I were just like, dog, what?

• 30:07Speaker 12

  And then what happened to this podcast? Went to the moon, man.

• 30:12Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 30:13Sean Fennessey?

  Okay, Die Hard with Vengeance. So Amanda, you have a choice. And that's going in blockbuster. Yes. Okay.

• 30:18Amanda Dobbins?

  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. And I have learned doing this with these psychos for so many years, that you gotta 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.

• 30:50Speaker 11

  Wow, wow. This is a crazy story.

• 30:54Speaker 07

  What is going on?

• 30:55Speaker 11

  This is crazy.

• 30:55Speaker 07

  This is not where I thought you were going in that ramp up.

• 30:58Speaker 11

  I love that movie.

• 31:00Amanda Dobbins?

  It is, 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.

• 31:08Sean Fennessey?

  Frances Ha was lickety-split. That was right there. Elizabeth knew what was coming.

• 31:13Speaker 11

  She's nimble.

• 31:14Amanda Dobbins?

  I am a Baumbach 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 Frances Ha was released in 2013, I guess, here. But I was, I was one year older than Frances Ha when it was, it was released. And I was also living in Brooklyn. And I have, I have not had a professional dance career or even a semi-professional dance career. But yeah, that's true.

• 31:47Speaker 11

  It's a long life.

• 31:47Amanda Dobbins?

  And the choreography is quite promising. But I was also flailing. And so the magic of that movie is that it is both been like 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. And It's, I mean, it's beautiful. It's my favorite. So if you haven't seen it, I recommend it. And Francis

• 32:15Speaker 07

  What's the subway scene? I was gonna say the same thing.

• 32:16Amanda Dobbins?

  It is when Mickey Sumner

• 32:18Speaker 07

  I love that movie.

• 32:18Amanda Dobbins?

  It is when Sophie tells Francis that she's moving in with Patch.

• 32:22Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 32:23Amanda Dobbins?

  Which, and there, there lies all the problems, you know?

• 32:26Speaker 07

  Yeah, it's just, I love that movie.

• 32:28Amanda Dobbins?

  And then Francis takes the subway alone.

• 32:30Sean Fennessey?

  Did we like teleport to the fifth round of this draft? Like, what is going on?

• 32:34Amanda Dobbins?

  You love Francis

• 32:35Sean Fennessey?

  It's a great I do love it. I think it's a

• 32:37Speaker 07

  It's a great New York movie.

• 32:38Sean Fennessey?

  Absolute masterpiece, but

• 32:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 32:39Sean Fennessey?

  I'm just, this is two picks in a row that I just did not see come.

• 32:42Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. Well, fine. Take Goodfellas. Go ahead.

• 32:44Sean Fennessey?

  I'm gonna take Goodfellas for God's

• 32:46Speaker 07

  Yeah, alright, alright.

• 32:48Sean Fennessey?

  And Oscar winner, I'll take Goodfellas. Uh...

• 32:52Speaker 07

  It's not your pick, Sean.

• 32:53Sean Fennessey?

  God damn it.

• 32:54Amanda Dobbins?

  Do it.

• 32:58Sean Fennessey?

  Griffin?

• 33:01Speaker 07

  Dude, you're the funniest thing ever right now.

• 33:03Amanda Dobbins?

  Be a legend.

• 33:07Speaker 07

  But you have something loaded that wasn't that. Maybe not. I had, I had a big three and none of them have been taken yet. Right. I'm a little surprised.

• 33:16Speaker 12

  DH with a V is not in your big three?

• 33:19Speaker 07

  It was four. I, I do wanna say It was four. 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've drafted, I would've drafted in Blockbuster was my strategy there. Um, I

• 33:33Sean Fennessey?

  Just tell us what they are. Just list all of them.

• 33:34Speaker 07

  No. Uh, I, I am going to, um, in

• 33:42Speaker 07

  in Oscar winner draft Dog Day Afternoon.

• 33:44Sean Fennessey?

  Okay.

• 33:45Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, good one.

• 33:48Speaker 07

  It is, it is less of a strategic play and more, uh, if, if I look deep into my soul, that is my knee jerk greatest New York movie of all time answer.

• 33:58Speaker 12

  Good pick.

• 33:59Speaker 07

  Uh... 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.

• 34:10Sean Fennessey?

  Not only

• 34:11Speaker 07

  But it's, it's, I'm gonna say it. It is, it is like kinda 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 best, it's the fucking best. It rules.

• 34:28Speaker 11

  It's about New York rooting for an underdog, too. It's got, you know, that spirit. It's one of the great outer borough movies. Which I thought of as like pitching that as a category. Outer borough. We thought of all five boroughs. That would have been crazy. We talked about that.

• 34:41Sean Fennessey?

  That would have been hard. King of Staten Island, number one overall for Chris.

• 34:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Right, yeah.

• 34:46Sean Fennessey?

  Still on the board for you, potentially.

• 34:48Speaker 07

  Are you including, do you think of Long Island as part of this larger project here?

• 34:52Sean Fennessey?

  I don't.

• 34:53Speaker 07

  That's the Burge and Tunnel draft. That's a different draft.

• 34:55Sean Fennessey?

  I think there are-

• 34:55Speaker 07

  Different draft.

• 34:56Sean Fennessey?

  Tri-city. How dare you.

• 34:58Speaker 07

  Tri-state area draft.

• 34:59Sean Fennessey?

  How dare you, New York snob.

• 35:01Speaker 07

  I left Goodfellas for you.

• 35:03Sean Fennessey?

  You did. Thank you so much. I will be taking Goodfellas. Thank you. Long Island is not New York City. It's just not. It's a different, it's a different part. And we're kind of okay with that, but not really. Goodfellas, though, wow. There is plenty of Long Island in Goodfellas, actually.

• 35:22Speaker 07

  There really is. In fact, you could say it's more of a Long Island film than a New York.

• 35:26Sean Fennessey?

  Well, I would argue it's more of a, it is more of an outer boroughs 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 in New York that I'm very familiar with, that I visited as a kid, that I felt exposed to. It was not the Empire State Building. It was not the Statue of Liberty. It was where regular people lived and-

• 35:50Speaker 11

  And everyone in Goodfellas is regular, right?

• 35:55Sean Fennessey?

  I think that they're perfectly nice people.

• 35:57Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 35:57Sean Fennessey?

  And I think everything that they did was fine.

• 36:00Speaker 07

  Lufthansa was just asking to get heisted.

• 36:02Amanda Dobbins?

  We should clarify that Oscar winner is for a winner in any category.

• 36:08Sean Fennessey?

  Any category.

• 36:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Because Goodfellas famously did not-

• 36:10Sean Fennessey?

  Not win Best Picture. It lost to Dances with Wolves, which we all agree was a- But Joe Pesci did win for Supporting Actor.

• 36:17Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 36:17Sean Fennessey?

  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.

• 36:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Very original. Good job.

• 36:28Sean Fennessey?

  Just win, baby. That's the goal.

• 36:30Speaker 11

  Yeah, I'm gonna be pretty regular, I think, to start off. Do the right thing in drama, please.

• 36:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 36:38Speaker 11

  Come on.

• 36:42Speaker 11

  Which is, Viv 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. Um, yeah, the best, the best movie, it's one of the best movies ever made. It's an easy pick, it's in blue. Look, there's colors.

• 37:06Speaker 07

  We each have our own color.

• 37:08Speaker 11

  Oh, fuck.

• 37:09Speaker 07

  Yeah, I guess.

• 37:10Sean Fennessey?

  No, that's not how it works.

• 37:11Amanda Dobbins?

  No, that's not possible, yeah.

• 37:12Speaker 11

  Really?

• 37:13Amanda Dobbins?

  Because they don't know, yeah, it's just, you know.

• 37:15Speaker 11

  It's just fun. Okay.

• 37:17Sean Fennessey?

  Got different colors.

• 37:18Speaker 11

  Yeah, do the right thing. Sad story of an innocent pizza guy who has his day ruined. I'm joking.

• 37:24Sean Fennessey?

  I'm joking.

• 37:30Speaker 11

  I'm so sorry.

• 37:31Sean Fennessey?

  Business owners.

• 37:32Amanda Dobbins?

  It's good.

• 37:33Sean Fennessey?

  Just making some pies.

• 37:34Speaker 07

  That's a description in the Christmas Adventurers movie guide.

• 37:39Speaker 07

  Know the crowd.

• 37:40Speaker 11

  And then some contrash shows up.

• 37:42Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 37:42Speaker 11

  That's also a reference to the film One Battle After Another, guys. I do not think that, um, yeah, maybe the most iconic New York movie, right? In the conversation?

• 37:51Sean Fennessey?

  Up there, it's definitely up there.

• 37:52Speaker 11

  And then in Brooklyn movie?

• 37:54Sean Fennessey?

  Best Brooklyn movie?

• 37:55Speaker 11

  Best Brooklyn movie.

• 37:56Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah, sure. I mean, Dog Day Afternoon is Brooklyn as well.

• 37:59Speaker 07

  Is it? Never seen it. Not your kind of thing, you wouldn't like it.

• 38:04Speaker 11

  Yeah. And then in Blockbuster, I want Men in Black.

• 38:07Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow.

• 38:09Speaker 11

  Which is the best New York blockbuster ever made.

• 38:14Speaker 11

  And is the number one.

• 38:16Sean Fennessey?

  I bet she doesn't have this one down.

• 38:17Amanda Dobbins?

  I bet she doesn't either.

• 38:19Speaker 11

  Uh, she's gonna get it. Cause I drafted it.

• 38:22Sean Fennessey?

  She does.

• 38:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, yes, Elizabeth.

• 38:24Speaker 11

  Men in Black.

• 38:25Amanda Dobbins?

  You guys, Elizabeth comes prepared.

• 38:26Sean Fennessey?

  The long list for this draft was 467 movies.

• 38:31Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 38:32Sean Fennessey?

  And we have cards for every single one.

• 38:34Speaker 07

  Except Die Hard with Avengers.

• 38:35Sean Fennessey?

  Except for one. The first pick.

• 38:40Speaker 11

  We have cards for like The Crowd by King Vitor.

• 38:43Sean Fennessey?

  We had to fly a separate plane in to get all the cards.

• 38:47Speaker 11

  But we did not see DH with a V coming. This movie came out in 1997. I lived in England, but I was still like pretty close. Shut the fuck up.

• 38:54Speaker 12

  I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything.

• 38:56Speaker 11

  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.

• 39:12Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 39:13Speaker 11

  It's so beautiful. It's a perfect movie.

• 39:16Speaker 12

  90 minutes long.

• 39:17Speaker 11

  It's very short.

• 39:19Amanda Dobbins?

  Have you seen Men in Black?

• 39:21Speaker 12

  Yeah, why?

• 39:21Amanda Dobbins?

  I don't know. Sometimes you really, the mid 90s things that children could see is sometimes.

• 39:26Speaker 12

  I was allowed to see anything I wanted. Yeah.

• 39:29Sean Fennessey?

  Anything you wanted?

• 39:31Speaker 12

  Anything that was of interest to me, I was allowed to see. There was no rules about that kind of thing.

• 39:36Sean Fennessey?

  Was that one of your three?

• 39:37Speaker 12

  Uh, no.

• 39:38Sean Fennessey?

  But you wanted it.

• 39:39Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 39:39Sean Fennessey?

  Okay.

• 39:40Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 39:40Speaker 12

  I told you like the first sex scene I ever saw was in Excalibur. Remember?

• 39:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, yeah. We know. Yes.

• 39:45Sean Fennessey?

  Chris, my father is.

• 39:49Sean Fennessey?

  Please.

• 39:49Speaker 12

  Mr. Fantasy, it's about King Arthur. Uh, and, um.

• 39:54Sean Fennessey?

  Helen.

• 39:54Speaker 12

  I'll tell you later.

• 39:58Speaker 12

  It's very erotic.

• 40:03Sean Fennessey?

  I have a pick.

• 40:04Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, it's your pick.

• 40:05Sean Fennessey?

  I'm taking in blockbuster Ghostbusters.

• 40:12Sean Fennessey?

  In part because I know who is picking next and I know how Griffin's mind works.

• 40:16Speaker 12

  Can I ask you a question just right off the top here?

• 40:18Sean Fennessey?

  Just slow down. You're just getting a little aggressive.

• 40:21Speaker 12

  Do you think?

• 40:22Sean Fennessey?

  I've just selected and haven't spoken yet about my pick.

• 40:24Speaker 12

  Ghostbusters. Go ahead and talk about Ghostbusters.

• 40:26Sean Fennessey?

  What's your question?

• 40:27Speaker 12

  Do you think Ghostbusters True is actually more New York?

• 40:30Sean Fennessey?

  Vigo the Carpathian?

• 40:32Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 40:32Sean Fennessey?

  He wasn't born in New York.

• 40:33Speaker 12

  No, I know. But he's like kind of feeding off of the psychic energy of the city.

• 40:37Sean Fennessey?

  Well, you could make that case because the great monster at the end is the Statue of Liberty at the end of Ghostbusters 2. But I would argue Stay Puft Marstrel Man, really one of the first, you know, true.

• 40:50Speaker 12

  New Yorkers?

• 40:50Sean Fennessey?

  New Yorkers?

• 40:51Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 40:53Sean Fennessey?

  He's kind of got the energy of a New Yorker. You know, he's like, get out of my way.

• 40:57Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, it's true.

• 40:58Sean Fennessey?

  I want what I want.

• 40:59Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 41:00Sean Fennessey?

  I'm walking here.

• 41:02Speaker 12

  Right.

• 41:03Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, wow. Ghostbusters, that's not a card.

• 41:08Speaker 07

  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. And 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, right? They go too hard. So it's like, it's more of a New York film texturally, or on a surface level.

• 41:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 41:51Speaker 07

  Like the River of Slime.

• 41:52Amanda Dobbins?

  Griffin, you can't have it, though. So what's your pick?

• 41:54Speaker 07

  Well, two still out there.

• 41:55Sean Fennessey?

  Are you a Ghostbusters 2 guy? Is that why you're asking?

• 41:57Speaker 12

  I always thought Vigo was pretty interesting.

• 41:59Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah. You kind of have like a Vigo thing.

• 42:02Speaker 12

  Yeah, exactly.

• 42:02Sean Fennessey?

  You kind of emit the same natural male energy.

• 42:06Speaker 07

  He's got good ideas, good politics.

• 42:08Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 42:10Sean Fennessey?

  You could be Chris the Philadelphian.

• 42:11Speaker 12

  Call me that from now on.

• 42:14Sean Fennessey?

  Okay, Griffin, you're up.

• 42:16Speaker 07

  Uh, well, that was the move I was gonna make, so I'm...

• 42:19Amanda Dobbins?

  So two of three are gone?

• 42:21Speaker 07

  Uh, yes.

• 42:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 42:22Speaker 07

  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.

• 42:31Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 42:31Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah.

• 42:32Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 42:33Amanda Dobbins?

  That's the...

• 42:34Speaker 07

  It's...

• 42:35Amanda Dobbins?

  That's upside down kiss.

• 42:36Speaker 07

  It's a fantasy subway. It's a fantasy subway.

• 42:38Amanda Dobbins?

  Which one is upside down?

• 42:39Sean Fennessey?

  This is when he saves the train.

• 42:40Speaker 07

  It transforms into the, uh...

• 42:43Amanda Dobbins?

  The same movie.

• 42:43Speaker 07

  The Chicago L. Yeah, it's an elevated subway in Manhattan. Yeah.

• 42:46Amanda Dobbins?

  I know that the upside down kiss is not on the train. I was just extrapolating.

• 42:50Sean Fennessey?

  Well, isn't the upside down kiss in the first Spider-Man?

• 42:52Speaker 07

  Correct, yes.

• 42:52Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, it is? Oh, okay.

• 42:53Speaker 07

  And Spider-Man 1, he also saves the, um, the ferry, right?

• 42:57Sean Fennessey?

  This man is leaving because you've drafted Spider-Man 2.

• 43:00Speaker 07

  I apologize.

• 43:02Sean Fennessey?

  He's like, I've had enough of this.

• 43:03Speaker 07

  Um, it's like...

• 43:04Sean Fennessey?

  He's fools.

• 43:05Speaker 07

  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.

• 43:14Speaker 12

  Fun, it's fun.

• 43:15Speaker 07

  In characterizing the experience of the subway so well.

• 43:21Speaker 11

  I love how this crowd is incense anytime a handwritten sign comes out. Incense.

• 43:27Amanda Dobbins?

  For the record, you made the list.

• 43:29Sean Fennessey?

  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.

• 43:38Speaker 07

  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 Spidey, you gotta go through me. And then also them carrying his passed out body after he's... He's just a kid. And they put the mask on him. We'll keep your secret safe.

• 43:56Sean Fennessey?

  And that's what you were doing with Cuomo this morning, right? You were like, if you want to get to him, you're gonna have to get through me. Please, Sean, Andrew Cuomo does not take the subway. Come on.

• 44:09Speaker 07

  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. And yet you have these moments of like collective power of a bunch of fucking like salami eating 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.

• 44:50Sean Fennessey?

  Yes. And he means in the bedroom.

• 44:53Speaker 07

  Yeah, right. Flip in the menu.

• 44:55Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah. You must be devastated to have Spider-Man on the board.

• 44:59Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, you know.

• 45:00Speaker 12

  You've got a lot of your key texts taken from here.

• 45:04Speaker 11

  Yeah, these are some boy movies now that I'm looking at it. Princess Ha fighting the fight.

• 45:09Amanda Dobbins?

  I mean, I do think that Sean is gonna mock me again for... Well, I don't know, actually. Because I know he likes this movie too. And this is the one, I'm gonna look you right in the eye.

• 45:16Speaker 07

  Okay.

• 45:17Amanda Dobbins?

  I don't know if you, if you want this.

• 45:18Speaker 07

  Oh, fuck, are you gonna take... Yeah.

• 45:19Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, I think, I think I'm really sorry. But in drama, I'm, I'm gonna take 25th Hour.

• 45:25Speaker 12

  That's fucked up.

• 45:27Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 45:29Sean Fennessey?

  Both dramas are spikes.

• 45:30Amanda Dobbins?

  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. And

• 45:58Sean Fennessey?

  You do that every day.

• 45:58Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, I was like, well, I was like, now I'm wrecked. Now I just have to like, sit here for 20 minutes.

• 46:03Sean Fennessey?

  Chris does the speech in the mirror. Every day. Yeah.

• 46:08Amanda Dobbins?

  An absolutely like, 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.

• 46:22Sean Fennessey?

  Not eligible in Blockbuster.

• 46:23Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 46:23Sean Fennessey?

  Great movie.

• 46:25Amanda Dobbins?

  I'm gonna have fun later.

• 46:27Speaker 12

  That's a great pick.

• 46:28Amanda Dobbins?

  Thank you. Also one of Chris Ryan's favorite.

• 46:30Speaker 12

  I love that movie more than, more than Die Hard with a Vengeance.

• 46:34Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 46:35Speaker 12

  That's my fault.

• 46:38Speaker 12

  Okay, so for Subway movie, I'm gonna go with The French Connection.

• 46:43Sean Fennessey?

  Nice.

• 46:43Amanda Dobbins?

  There we go.

• 46:46Sean Fennessey?

  Good pick.

• 46:47Speaker 12

  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.

• 46:56Sean Fennessey?

  Well, he outsmarts him.

• 46:57Speaker 12

  I know. Right, well, that's, I mean, the movie would have ended right there if it had not. We would have gotten 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 changed the way car chases were shot on film. Reflected even in One Battle After Another, just recently released. So that leaves me with another pick.

• 47:27Sean Fennessey?

  Life of a Showgirl is not eligible.

• 47:31Speaker 12

  How many times have you gone to the theater?

• 47:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Best album since Lover, just throwing that out there.

• 47:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Free yourselves from the Jack Andonoff prison.

• 47:41Sean Fennessey?

  I asked you this yesterday because you were the first person I ever heard say that they like this new album. I was shocked.

• 47:46Amanda Dobbins?

  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, I'm bopping, you know?

• 47:53Speaker 07

  I can't believe the world we live in now is being 12 hours late to an album.

• 47:59Sean Fennessey?

  Because you dared sleep.

• 48:03Speaker 12

  In action, horror, thriller, I'm gonna take Rear Window.

• 48:06Amanda Dobbins?

  Good. This is, alright.

• 48:10Speaker 12

  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.

• 48:22Sean Fennessey?

  Were you like a, were you looking out the window?

• 48:26Speaker 12

  No, I mean, like, but you were 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.

• 48:37Sean Fennessey?

  Was it Batman?

• 48:39Speaker 12

  It was Jimmy Stewart.

• 48:41Speaker 11

  When you move here, you go get your telephoto lens.

• 48:44Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 48:44Speaker 11

  You set it up.

• 48:45Speaker 12

  Grace Kelly's making me breakfast. It's good stuff. One of the great Hitchcock movies, one of the greatest movies ever made.

• 48:52Speaker 11

  Yeah, the best.

• 48:53Amanda Dobbins?

  And also isolates a very New York condition.

• 48:55Speaker 12

  Yes.

• 48:56Speaker 11

  The best theater experience you can get from a movie, I think.

• 48:59Sean Fennessey?

  Rear Window, you think?

• 49:00Speaker 11

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, a movie that is wonderful at home, but like is 100 billion times better in a movie theater. Yeah.

• 49:06Sean Fennessey?

  Great take.

• 49:07Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 49:07Sean Fennessey?

  What's the outdoor movie theater in Brooklyn overlooking the bridge? The skyline?

• 49:11Speaker 11

  I think it's The Skyline. I went there a lot in COVID. I haven't been there since.

• 49:15Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah, I saw Rear Window there with my wife.

• 49:16Speaker 07

  Oh, yeah. I saw Armageddon there, one of the great New York movies.

• 49:18Speaker 11

  We saw Armageddon there, one of the great New York movies, Eddie Griffin, The Little Chihuahua, remember all that?

• 49:24Sean Fennessey?

  It's Eddie Griffin, right?

• 49:25Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 49:28Sean Fennessey?

  You got another pick?

• 49:29Amanda Dobbins?

  That was it?

• 49:29Sean Fennessey?

  He did two.

• 49:30Amanda Dobbins?

  What did you just take? Rear Window and?

• 49:32Speaker 12

  Fringe Connection.

• 49:32Amanda Dobbins?

  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.

• 49:40Speaker 11

  Okay, okay. I was like, what are we doing here?

• 49:42Amanda Dobbins?

  You're waiting. But yes, in blockbuster, my first Nora Ephron pick, we'll see whether there's another, is in fact You've Got Mail. I, yeah.

• 49:52Speaker 11

  Whoa, yeah.

• 49:53Amanda Dobbins?

  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 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, and a sort of indefensible movie from a moral perspective.

• 50:30Speaker 11

  Like most of her movies.

• 50:32Amanda Dobbins?

  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 very.

• 50:41Speaker 12

  It's early email, though. Like, who knew?

• 50:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 50:43Speaker 12

  You know what I mean? We're just trying it out. We're just trying to figure it out.

• 50:46Amanda Dobbins?

  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. And I was gonna 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.

• 51:13Speaker 11

  That would cost $180,000.

• 51:18Amanda Dobbins?

  And I would have had to have a pumpkin, you know, a whole thing. So You've Got Mail.

• 51:22Speaker 11

  Interesting. Not on my board. It's about the Barnes and Noble in 80th 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 and Noble, I'm like, this is an institution of the Upper West. It's a beautiful Barnes and Noble. It's crazy. It's true.

• 51:40Speaker 12

  I like how you did Spider-Man 2 voice about that. They sell books in here. Get out of here.

• 51:45Speaker 11

  Paper.

• 51:46Speaker 07

  It's like, it's, to me, like, one of the better movies about like the battle for the soul of New York.

• 51:53Amanda Dobbins?

  Which is a direct quote from Kathleen Kelly.

• 51:55Speaker 07

  Yeah. And I respect that pick. And because of that, I'm going to draft When Harry Met Sally in Blockbuster.

• 52:01Speaker 11

  Yep.

• 52:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 52:02Speaker 07

  You boxed me in.

• 52:03Amanda Dobbins?

  I knew what I was doing.

• 52:04Speaker 07

  I had to do it.

• 52:05Amanda Dobbins?

  I respect it.

• 52:06Speaker 07

  Needed a Nora on my board.

• 52:11Speaker 07

  Not a Nora.

• 52:12Sean Fennessey?

  Not a Nora.

• 52:13Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 52:13Sean Fennessey?

  A Nora.

• 52:14Speaker 07

  A Nora Ephron picture. One of the most beautifully shot New York movies, in my opinion. Barry Sonnenfeld, just fucking going to the mat.

• 52:24Speaker 11

  Blacking out, just being insane.

• 52:26Speaker 07

  Yeah, and like one of the great.

• 52:27Speaker 11

  Just like creating autumn.

• 52:28Sean Fennessey?

  This is why you come here.

• 52:30Speaker 11

  So good.

• 52:30Sean Fennessey?

  Is to hear about Barry Sonnenfeld blacking out during the making of When Harry Met Sally. This is movie podcasting, guys.

• 52:38Speaker 07

  Leaves had only ever been green until When Harry Met Sally.

• 52:41Speaker 11

  He was like, they could be brown.

• 52:43Speaker 07

  Yeah, he was like, let's toast these motherfuckers. No, it's like going to the great walking and talking movies. I mean, I feel like it's less texturally explicitly New York-y than You Got Mail, which is like about the city, but it is so much a movie about New York.

• 52:57Amanda Dobbins?

  But it's on location there at the, like the Temple of Dender in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, where do they have lunch? Like, cats' is at the boat basin when Carrie Fisher is going through the rolodex, you know? Yeah, they're everywhere.

• 53:09Speaker 07

  How well shot it is.

• 53:10Amanda Dobbins?

  Sharper image, you know?

• 53:11Speaker 07

  It is a movie that is just like full of New York locations in a way that no one would have access to today.

• 53:16Sean Fennessey?

  A pillar of New York iconography, sharper image.

• 53:21Speaker 07

  Gone but never forgotten.

• 53:23Amanda Dobbins?

  Singing "Frendo" on top in front of Ira!

• 53:28Speaker 11

  Fucking Ira.

• 53:31Sean Fennessey?

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• 55:11Sean Fennessey?

  I have a pick, right?

• 55:11Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 55:12Sean Fennessey?

  Do you feel like you've got too many choices? You seem vexed.

• 55:17Sean Fennessey?

  Well.

• 55:19Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, great.

• 55:21Sean Fennessey?

  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.

• 55:45Sean Fennessey?

  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, which, you know, I learned about from Chris and. Only when they show Excalibur. Yeah.

• 56:06Sean Fennessey?

  Which is that I love that, you know, the sequence, obviously, where he goes, where Bickle goes into the campaign office, which is just right on a street corner and kind of prominently displayed. And that is the kind of essence of New York that I find is different from other cities, where everything is just kind of right in front of you all of 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 of days. How isolated I am in Los Angeles. And so the idea of the major isolation of Travis Pickle.

• 56:36Speaker 11

  You do also live in a castle, right?

• 56:39Sean Fennessey?

  I live in Downton Abbey, which I had flown to Los Angeles. Nevertheless, no, I, obviously, New York is, or LA is a lonely city. New York is not a lonely city.

• 56:47Amanda Dobbins?

  People are around all the time.

• 56:48Sean Fennessey?

  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! Pickle, you did it, man! But it's an amazing film.

• 57:03Speaker 12

  That guy has no ripple effects in current society! Awesome!

• 57:09Sean Fennessey?

  So you're blaming Scorsese for State of Affairs?

• 57:12Speaker 12

  Never. He just had, he had his finger on the pulse. And that pulse still goes beep, beep, beep.

• 57:20Sean Fennessey?

  Okay, David.

• 57:21Speaker 11

  I'm gonna take The Royal Tenenbaums in comedy.

• 57:25Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 57:25Speaker 12

  Nice job.

• 57:27Amanda Dobbins?

  In comedy?

• 57:28Speaker 11

  Yes, I'm taking it in comedy.

• 57:30Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 57:30Speaker 11

  Which is where I want it.

• 57:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 57:33Speaker 11

  I'm, that sounded weird. Where I want it! It's another, I'm picking, 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, like a little before.

• 57:47Sean Fennessey?

  What era is it, would you say?

• 57:49Speaker 11

  It feels like, kind of like, early 80s, right? Like sort of Wes Anderson's childhood, even though he didn't grow up in...

• 57:54Sean Fennessey?

  Like 1990, 79.

• 57:56Speaker 11

  Hamilton 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...

• 58:12Speaker 07

  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.

• 58:19Speaker 11

  The music is so evocative of the city and like, I just, it's also just about like the kinds of freaks that end up succeeding here, in a way. Right?

• 58:29Sean Fennessey?

  Eli Cash?

• 58:30Speaker 11

  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.

• 58:40Speaker 07

  Yeah, there's not one since Tenenbaums, I believe.

• 58:43Speaker 11

  Get off your ass, Anderson!

• 58:47Speaker 07

  He's an expat now.

• 58:48Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 58:48Sean Fennessey?

  He moved to Europe.

• 58:49Speaker 11

  He's a Parisian boy now.

• 58:50Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 58:51Speaker 11

  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.

• 58:58Speaker 07

  Because you were living in?

• 59:00Sean Fennessey?

  Northern England.

• 59:02Speaker 11

  Uh, what?

• 59:03Sean Fennessey?

  You say northern England?

• 59:04Speaker 11

  I mean, I went to college in northern England. He lived in North London. I lived in North London.

• 59:10Speaker 07

  Camden, Kenish Town, if anyone cares.

• 59:13Speaker 11

  All right.

• 59:15Speaker 11

  You have another pick? Hmm? Oh, yes, right. I have another pick. In Subway, I want the Taking of Pelham 123.

• 59:22Speaker 11

  This is my favorite New York movie. Original or remake? Hmm? 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. Vital for action and all that, I get it.

• 59:51Sean Fennessey?

  And yet still, you're taking it.

• 59:52Speaker 11

  I love this. This is my favorite movie of all time, I think.

• 59:55Speaker 07

  I, I was confident you were gonna take this first. Did you just think the rest of us wouldn't fight you for it?

• 1:00:00Speaker 11

  I took a calculated bet that you guys would pick weird shit like Francis Ah.

• 1:00:05Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:00:08Speaker 11

  Don't be an asshole. Look, it's a celebrated movie, and I think it's got like such a fan base now. Um, but like, I do feel like it was sort of more of like a forgotten-ish, like, I mean, 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 rob, the subway heist guys do that in Taking of Pelham 123. Do you guys like this movie?

• 1:00:36Sean Fennessey?

  I love it.

• 1:00:36Speaker 11

  I'm talking a lot.

• 1:00:36Sean Fennessey?

  Yes. No, I think it's an amazing pick.

• 1:00:38Speaker 11

  It's a great New York movie because it's about a fucking thing that happens, and then everyone in New York's whose job it is to deal with it, a hostage situation on a subway platform, is like, ah, Jesus Christ. Like, the mayor, Walter Matthau, the cop, Jerry Stiller, the, you know, train, the sub, MTA, I was just like, what, what now? This shit? I fucking could barely be alive here, and now I gotta deal with this?

• 1:01:03Sean Fennessey?

  The criminals also have that energy. Robert Shaw, Martin Ballson, Hector Elizondo. Yes.

• 1:01:08Speaker 11

  Yes.

• 1:01:09Sean Fennessey?

  They're all like, I guess we'll rob this train.

• 1:01:11Speaker 11

  They're like, can we have like 10 grand in the mirrors? Like, we don't have any fucking money. It's 1974. It's the best movie ever made. If you've never seen it, it's the, I mean, it's not, it's not the best movie, but it's my favorite movie. I watch it all the time.

• 1:01:27Amanda Dobbins?

  It's a great pick.

• 1:01:31Speaker 11

  Go rogue.

• 1:01:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Do something fun. Yeah.

• 1:01:34Speaker 12

  Express yourself.

• 1:01:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, let's go.

• 1:01:35Speaker 11

  Go rogue?

• 1:01:36Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 1:01:36Speaker 11

  You have two Marty movies and Ghostbusters. It's a little obvious.

• 1:01:41Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah, I'm freaking crushing it right now.

• 1:01:42Speaker 11

  Yeah, you are.

• 1:01:45Sean Fennessey?

  In action horror thriller, I'll be taking Uncut Gems.

• 1:01:47Amanda Dobbins?

  All right.

• 1:01:52Amanda Dobbins?

  That's good.

• 1:01:54Sean Fennessey?

  That's, that's me.

• 1:01:55Amanda Dobbins?

  I mean, you know, it's not really diverging from the path very much, but it's good.

• 1:01:58Sean Fennessey?

  I can only be myself. And I'll tell, I'll tell you a couple of 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 a modern kind of anxiety and a modern crime thriller. And 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,

• 1:02:41Sean Fennessey?

  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

• 1:03:05Speaker 12

  It gets thrown in the

• 1:03:05Sean Fennessey?

  when he, yes, when he's thrown, and he's, he's encountering all of these men in the street who all want something from him. And the Safdie's 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?

• 1:03:20Amanda Dobbins?

  It was good. Yeah. Good job.

• 1:03:22Sean Fennessey?

  Thanks.

• 1:03:25Sean Fennessey?

  I live to serve.

• 1:03:27Speaker 07

  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.

• 1:03:38Sean Fennessey?

  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-

• 1:03:51Speaker 12

  I 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 piece.

• 1:04:05Speaker 11

  Like Serpico probably doesn't-

• 1:04:07Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 1:04:08Speaker 07

  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.

• 1:04:16Speaker 11

  Taxi Driver, like, horror? Not really.

• 1:04:20Sean Fennessey?

  I don't think so.

• 1:04:20Speaker 11

  Like, yeah.

• 1:04:20Sean Fennessey?

  I think it's a drama.

• 1:04:21Speaker 11

  Yeah, it's a drama.

• 1:04:22Sean Fennessey?

  Like a character study.

• 1:04:23Speaker 11

  Right.

• 1:04:24Sean Fennessey?

  Griffin, you're up.

• 1:04:25Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 1:04:26Sean Fennessey?

  You have to manifest.

• 1:04:26Amanda Dobbins?

  What do you have left?

• 1:04:28Speaker 07

  What do I have left?

• 1:04:29Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:29Speaker 07

  Many, many things. Too many things. But I think-

• 1:04:32Sean Fennessey?

  Die Hard with a Vengeance is off the board.

• 1:04:33Speaker 07

  I know.

• 1:04:35Speaker 12

  But you guys are sweating it now, right? You're like, damn it. I wish all my lives-

• 1:04:40Speaker 11

  Now you've got two bottles, you're filling them up, you're trying to-

• 1:04:43Sean Fennessey?

  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 onstage could solve it, but that just seemed like, kind of risky with all the electronics around.

• 1:04:55Speaker 07

  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-

• 1:05:02Amanda Dobbins?

  I was really stressed, and then you said that CR hasn't drafted it, and now I'm relieved.

• 1:05:05Speaker 07

  In action horror thriller, I'm gonna take The Warriors.

• 1:05:08Speaker 12

  Okay.

• 1:05:09Speaker 07

  Which is like-

• 1:05:10Speaker 11

  Right.

• 1:05:11Speaker 07

  -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.

• 1:05:22Speaker 11

  That's it, yeah. It's a great subway movie, too, but you have it, so.

• 1:05:25Speaker 07

  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. It actually uses the grid and the layout of the city and the boroughs and the public transit and the walking paths.

• 1:05:45Sean Fennessey?

  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.

• 1:05:54Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 1:05:54Sean Fennessey?

  Why did you go to Columbia?

• 1:05:56Speaker 07

  You know, I've never...

• 1:05:58Sean Fennessey?

  You have to go back to...

• 1:05:59Speaker 11

  Oh, yeah, that's right.

• 1:05:59Speaker 07

  Yeah. 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?

• 1:06:08Sean Fennessey?

  Did you consider full Baseball Furies attire tonight?

• 1:06:10Speaker 07

  Yeah. I brought a baseball jersey backstage. I chose not to wear...

• 1:06:14Speaker 11

  I thought about wearing my Edwin Diaz jersey, and I thought it didn't look good enough in it.

• 1:06:17Speaker 07

  And I was gonna wear my minor league Brooklyn Cyclones Toy Story jersey.

• 1:06:21Speaker 11

  Yeah, right.

• 1:06:23Speaker 07

  That I bought from their recent Toy Story night. That's how you get me to go to a sporting event.

• 1:06:30Speaker 07

  But yeah, no, I'm picking the Warriors.

• 1:06:33Sean Fennessey?

  Okay, good pick.

• 1:06:34Amanda Dobbins?

  All right.

• 1:06:34Sean Fennessey?

  And takes it off the board for Subway as well.

• 1:06:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes. Okay. I already have a Subway. And I could draft this in outer boroughs if this were a thing that we're doing, but instead I will do it in comedy. And another music cue that I couldn't get cleared, it's Working Girl, obviously.

• 1:06:53Amanda Dobbins?

  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. And, 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.

• 1:07:17Sean Fennessey?

  What do you relate to about this movie?

• 1:07:19Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Being in love with Harrison Ford. I do feel that this is the hottest that Harrison Ford has ever been on screen. And that does include Witness. But we can litigate that another time.

• 1:07:35Sean Fennessey?

  Where would you litigate it?

• 1:07:38Amanda Dobbins?

  With some people on the stage at a time...

• 1:07:41Sean Fennessey?

  PR?

• 1:07:43Amanda Dobbins?

  He did recently get a Blu-ray of it, right? You got one of those?

• 1:07:45Speaker 07

  I did, yes. Blu-ray 4K. It was gifted to me from Tracy Litz.

• 1:07:49Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, at like minute 300 of the physical media draft.

• 1:07:53Speaker 07

  Most beautiful 300 minutes of my life. He rolled out a second suitcase, and now came Witness.

• 1:07:58Amanda Dobbins?

  Anyway, Working Girl and All-Timer.

• 1:08:02Sean Fennessey?

  Great pick.

• 1:08:05Sean Fennessey?

  Okay, Chris.

• 1:08:06Speaker 12

  Okay.

• 1:08:07Sean Fennessey?

  Good day to Die Hard?

• 1:08:10Speaker 12

  Comedy.

• 1:08:12Amanda Dobbins?

  But this is because there was a typo that changes that is disrespectful to so. Yeah.

• 1:08:19Amanda Dobbins?

  So it was prepared, but that's better.

• 1:08:21Sean Fennessey?

  Thank you, Elizabeth.

• 1:08:22Speaker 12

  So when we were backstage, our producer, Jack Sander, was telling a story about how last night at 12:30, someone reached out to him and had like a magical offer of socializing for him. And he was like, just sit by the phone. I'm gonna come get you or you're gonna come meet me. 12:30, 2 AM. Here's back from this person. Sorry, it's not gonna happen. And that thing is like the central conceit of After Hours. And so I'm gonna 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,

• 1:09:02Speaker 12

  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.

• 1:09:18Speaker 11

  Plaster Paris, technically.

• 1:09:20Sean Fennessey?

  I, um, I was thinking about this for Subway because this features one of the greatest Subway scenes of all time.

• 1:09:25Speaker 11

  He doesn't get on.

• 1:09:26Speaker 12

  It's why I asked.

• 1:09:27Sean Fennessey?

  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 gonna 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.

• 1:09:53Speaker 11

  It's the best movie ever made.

• 1:09:55Sean Fennessey?

  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.

• 1:10:03Speaker 12

  The great New York Griffin movie. I will say definitive.

• 1:10:06Speaker 11

  Griffin Dunn, yeah, right. It's Soho Canon. I've been trying to put together a list quietly of the Soho.

• 1:10:11Sean Fennessey?

  Soho Canon.

• 1:10:12Speaker 11

  Yes.

• 1:10:12Speaker 12

  Oh, wow.

• 1:10:13Speaker 11

  It is the number one Soho movie, like, just cobblestones, weird warehouses, you know, the empty vibe of that neighborhood.

• 1:10:19Speaker 12

  Does Wall Street count or no?

• 1:10:21Sean Fennessey?

  Where does Caught Stealing land in that?

• 1:10:23Speaker 11

  Caught Stealing lands in the garbage where it belongs. That movie is bad.

• 1:10:29Speaker 12

  Okay, so I have After Hours in comedy. And in Oscar winner, I will take All That Jazz.

• 1:10:37Amanda Dobbins?

  There we go.

• 1:10:40Speaker 12

  Largely 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. Roy Scheider plays Joe, who's basically Bob Fosse, trying to mount this say everything, leave it all on the field production of a musical.

• 1:11:06Sean Fennessey?

  Do you remember the name of the show that he's producing?

• 1:11:09Speaker 12

  I actually don't.

• 1:11:10Sean Fennessey?

  It's New York slash LA.

• 1:11:12Speaker 12

  Oh, poignant. And Roy Scheider gives...

• 1:11:17Speaker 11

  Dodgers are winning, by the way.

• 1:11:19Speaker 12

  This is one of my favorite performances. It's definitely my favorite Roy 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.

• 1:11:31Sean Fennessey?

  Polite applause.

• 1:11:32Speaker 11

  It's the best fucking movie.

• 1:11:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, so I have two categories left. I have action horror thriller and Oscar winner, I believe. Yes. Okay.

• 1:11:43Amanda Dobbins?

  I'm gonna 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.

• 1:12:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, they robbed the Met twice. Um, 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.

• 1:12:13Sean Fennessey?

  That's right.

• 1:12:14Amanda Dobbins?

  1999.

• 1:12:15Sean Fennessey?

  What a day for McTiernan.

• 1:12:16Amanda Dobbins?

  I, well.

• 1:12:17Sean Fennessey?

  When you think New York, you think John McTiernan. It's true. Was Predator available too tonight?

• 1:12:22Amanda Dobbins?

  They stole a painting and then he put it right back, you know? And also then they danced really sexy at Chirriani's. So it's all, and had sex on a marble staircase that is very realistic in terms of New York City homes.

• 1:12:38Sean Fennessey?

  My father is here.

• 1:12:39Amanda Dobbins?

  So my in-laws are here. Hi, Rich and Jane. Um, 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, well, yeah, well, it's okay. You guys know that it's the remake.

• 1:13:03Sean Fennessey?

  Griffin, you're up again. What do you, what do you, what do you got? What are you thinking? How you feeling?

• 1:13:12Speaker 07

  Looking out, look, there's something.

• 1:13:13Sean Fennessey?

  Wait, I need to interrupt you for a second. Griffin really wants to win.

• 1:13:16Speaker 07

  Very badly.

• 1:13:17Sean Fennessey?

  The last time we did this, he won. Did you win both times?

• 1:13:20Speaker 07

  I can't, who won the president? We don't know if that was ever, much like our own elections, it's unclear.

• 1:13:25Sean Fennessey?

  You mean 2020?

• 1:13:27Speaker 07

  Whether anyone was fairly.

• 1:13:29Sean Fennessey?

  Don't worry, I know, don't worry.

• 1:13:30Speaker 07

  I won the lawyer one, which I went turbo mode, grinding on.

• 1:13:35Sean Fennessey?

  Watched roughly 100 lawyer movies in four days before the draft.

• 1:13:38Amanda Dobbins?

  That was really psychotic, yeah.

• 1:13:40Speaker 07

  I had zero fun during that draft. I felt great once I won, but it felt like running a marathon.

• 1:13:46Sean Fennessey?

  How are you feeling right now?

• 1:13:47Speaker 07

  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.

• 1:14:03Amanda Dobbins?

  Who me?

• 1:14:04Speaker 07

  And there's a part of me that just doesn't.

• 1:14:07Amanda Dobbins?

  English Dave? God.

• 1:14:09Sean Fennessey?

  Govna.

• 1:14:12Speaker 07

  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 gonna fucking do it. In drama, I'm gonna draft Clint Eastwood's masterpiece, Sully.

• 1:14:22Speaker 11

  Woo! Yeah.

• 1:14:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow.

• 1:14:25Speaker 11

  I thought about it.

• 1:14:28Speaker 11

  One of the great New York movies. Yeah. I don't... Did it win an Oscar for like, sound editing or something? No, so I was... I'm not sure I could fit it in.

• 1:14:37Speaker 07

  No, I don't think so.

• 1:14:38Speaker 11

  You're getting all your blank check in our big picture right now.

• 1:14:40Speaker 07

  A little bit. It's a Little Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. A blockbuster was a big ass hit. Made 120 million domestic and negative $15 worldwide.

• 1:14:54Speaker 07

  But I'm drafting it in drama.

• 1:14:59Speaker 07

  Disrespectful, disrespectful.

• 1:15:04Speaker 12

  The movies that have been handwritten would win the draft if they were put together.

• 1:15:09Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 1:15:11Speaker 07

  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.

• 1:15:25Speaker 11

  It's about a guy refusing to go to New Jersey.

• 1:15:27Speaker 07

  Well, this is the other thing.

• 1:15:28Speaker 11

  He won't fucking land at Teterboro, thank you. You can go to Teterboro, he's like, the Hudson.

• 1:15:35Speaker 07

  He eyeballed it, he's not making it. He eyeballed it. He didn't crash, it was a forced water landing.

• 1:15:43Speaker 11

  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?

• 1:15:50Speaker 07

  That is such an insane misread of the movie. The 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.

• 1:16:03Speaker 11

  Definitely.

• 1:16:03Speaker 07

  He's not a hero, he doesn't want attention. The people in 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.

• 1:16:18Speaker 11

  Yes.

• 1:16:19Speaker 07

  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. And it's not because they changed the parts. 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.

• 1:16:39Speaker 11

  This is so true.

• 1:16:42Sean Fennessey?

  It's, it's going to be okay.

• 1:16:44Speaker 07

  Sully?

• 1:16:45Sean Fennessey?

  You did get the movie, by the way.

• 1:16:47Speaker 11

  You do 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, I guess there was some hearing. And he's like, hearing?

• 1:16:55Speaker 11

  Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga.

• 1:16:57Sean Fennessey?

  They railroaded the guy? There was administration and regulation, you say?

• 1:17:02Speaker 11

  I'll be there tomorrow.

• 1:17:04Speaker 07

  I mean, one of, 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. He's stuck in a hotel in New York. The movie spans the five days of him just being stuck in our city.

• 1:17:17Sean Fennessey?

  We have, we have more picks to make.

• 1:17:18Speaker 07

  But the highlight of the film

• 1:17:22Speaker 07

  is the rescue sequence itself, where you cut to Turtle.

• 1:17:25Sean Fennessey?

  All the boat.

• 1:17:26Speaker 07

  You cut to the dispatcher and you watch how quickly our city comes together and gets shit done.

• 1:17:32Speaker 11

  So true.

• 1:17:33Speaker 07

  Sully, Sully, Sully, Sully.

• 1:17:38Sean Fennessey?

  USA.

• 1:17:43Speaker 07

  Great decision, great decision.

• 1:17:44Sean Fennessey?

  That was a great decision. How many people over here have really seen Sully, honestly? Nine guys, you know?

• 1:17:50Speaker 07

  The Letterboxd logs tonight are going, boo.

• 1:17:57Sean Fennessey?

  How do I follow that up?

• 1:17:58Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:17:59Sean Fennessey?

  What am I supposed to do with that?

• 1:17:59Speaker 07

  Just take another Scorsese movie and keep it moving.

• 1:18:03Sean Fennessey?

  Mean Streets. Honestly, I will. I'll take Wolf of Wall Street Comedy.

• 1:18:06Speaker 07

  Right, right.

• 1:18:09Speaker 11

  That's fine.

• 1:18:11Speaker 11

  That's your kind of New Yorker.

• 1:18:13Sean Fennessey?

  You know, it's, uh, I don't know how to even follow what you just did there. Should I, should I just explain every scene of The Wolf of Wall Street from start to finish?

• 1:18:21Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:18:21Speaker 11

  So McConaughey's talking about jerking off, right?

• 1:18:26Speaker 07

  Explain the scenes, but make it clear that you approve of what's happening within them.

• 1:18:30Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah, this is obviously a tacit knowledge with the only way to go through life is to be greedy, use drugs, cheat on your wife, and win America, right? That's the point of the movie.

• 1:18:38Speaker 11

  That's the point of the movie, yeah.

• 1:18:40Sean Fennessey?

  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.

• 1:18:47Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:47Sean Fennessey?

  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.

• 1:18:52Amanda Dobbins?

  Clint Eastwood made Sully, you know, at the age of 95.

• 1:18:55Sean Fennessey?

  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?

• 1:19:08Speaker 11

  Yeah, of course.

• 1:19:09Amanda Dobbins?

  Sure.

• 1:19:09Sean Fennessey?

  Like DH with a V. It was really funny that you picked that. On purpose.

• 1:19:14Amanda Dobbins?

  This was eligible in Subway, too. A pivotal scene.

• 1:19:17Sean Fennessey?

  It is.

• 1:19:17Speaker 11

  Oh, that's right.

• 1:19:18Sean Fennessey?

  Well, it's a wordless scene.

• 1:19:20Amanda Dobbins?

  But it's pivotal to our understanding.

• 1:19:22Sean Fennessey?

  Explain it.

• 1:19:23Amanda Dobbins?

  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.

• 1:19:51Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 1:19:51Amanda Dobbins?

  By himself, looking around, being like, well, I did it, but also, is this what I did?

• 1:19:56Sean Fennessey?

  But the honest integrity of taking the subway.

• 1:20:00Amanda Dobbins?

  That qualifies as pivotal? Yes? Oh, my God.

• 1:20:06Sean Fennessey?

  All right. Respect.

• 1:20:12Amanda Dobbins?

  Elizabeth, that was good.

• 1:20:16Amanda Dobbins?

  Elizabeth, feel it, everyone.

• 1:20:17Sean Fennessey?

  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. Okay.

• 1:20:26Amanda Dobbins?

  It's a good pick.

• 1:20:27Sean Fennessey?

  Hey, you don't have to be rude about it.

• 1:20:29Amanda Dobbins?

  I like the film. We did a whole podcast about it. Who's next? Oh, I am already? Okay.

• 1:20:35Sean Fennessey?

  Wait, no.

• 1:20:36Amanda Dobbins?

  No.

• 1:20:36Sean Fennessey?

  David's up.

• 1:20:37Speaker 11

  Yeah. My final two.

• 1:20:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:20:39Speaker 11

  This is the end for me.

• 1:20:43Speaker 11

  It'll be okay.

• 1:20:45Sean Fennessey?

  Back to England?

• 1:20:46Speaker 11

  In action, thriller, horror, I want American Psycho.

• 1:20:55Speaker 11

  A few options there. This just feels like the New York-iest. And I guess since it can't be taken, it was between that and John Wick, which I love, but I'm taking American Psycho is more of like, you know, a movie about New York. Yes, please.

• 1:21:11Sean Fennessey?

  So.

• 1:21:11Speaker 11

  Is John Wick sort of a fake New York? I mean, it took.

• 1:21:13Sean Fennessey?

  But it is New York, right?

• 1:21:14Speaker 07

  It is. A ton of real locations.

• 1:21:16Sean Fennessey?

  It is New York. 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?

• 1:21:23Speaker 11

  Yes.

• 1:21:23Sean Fennessey?

  He kills freaking dog.

• 1:21:24Speaker 11

  Yes.

• 1:21:25Sean Fennessey?

  And then he's like, I'm John Wick. I have to Wick you.

• 1:21:27Speaker 11

  He does do that.

• 1:21:28Sean Fennessey?

  And then he goes to New York City.

• 1:21:29Speaker 11

  Yes.

• 1:21:30Sean Fennessey?

  He goes to the Continental, which of course does not exist, but is shot in New York.

• 1:21:32Speaker 11

  Yeah, it's just.

• 1:21:33Sean Fennessey?

  The exterior.

• 1:21:34Speaker 11

  Wall Street and downtown.

• 1:21:35Amanda Dobbins?

  But they're like, this is New York and not like weird John Wick world.

• 1:21:38Speaker 11

  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.

• 1:21:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Where's that mountain town? The mountain town in John Wick four, it looked lovely.

• 1:21:47Speaker 11

  That was Ballerina, just.

• 1:21:49Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, Ballerina, sorry. Thank you.

• 1:21:50Speaker 11

  It was from the world of John Wick.

• 1:21:51Amanda Dobbins?

  I think you mean John Wick's Ballerina.

• 1:21:53Speaker 11

  Yeah, right.

• 1:21:55Speaker 07

  And that John Wick two has the incredible subway.

• 1:21:57Speaker 11

  But that's not shot on the subway.

• 1:22:00Speaker 07

  Sure.

• 1:22:00Speaker 11

  Sorry.

• 1:22:01Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:22:01Speaker 11

  But it wasn't. It was shot in like either Toronto or on the path or something.

• 1:22:05Speaker 07

  The Oculus, but then the actual train itself is fake. I think John Wick shoots real New York locations in such a stylized way that even for me, a native New Yorker, I watch them and I go like, oh, that is that building.

• 1:22:15Speaker 11

  Right.

• 1:22:16Speaker 07

  Because it feels like it's Schumacher Gotham or something.

• 1:22:18Sean Fennessey?

  Right.

• 1:22:19Speaker 11

  Yeah. 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.

• 1:22:27Sean Fennessey?

  What is it that you relate to with American Psycho?

• 1:22:29Speaker 11

  I realize I'm going.

• 1:22:30Speaker 07

  It's the grindset mindset of it, right?

• 1:22:33Speaker 11

  I've gone full vintage here, right? Like, you know, 90s, 70s with Tom, one, two, three. And this is like the great 80s New York movie, right? Or if, you know, there's the raging bull or the working class in New York.

• 1:22:46Sean Fennessey?

  Forget about raging bull. We're talking about American Psycho.

• 1:22:49Speaker 11

  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.

• 1:23:04Speaker 11

  With normal heads in it.

• 1:23:07Speaker 11

  It's a great movie. I just got my Blu-ray. I just rewatched it.

• 1:23:11Speaker 07

  In the Luca remake, is fucking Patrick Bateman gonna have a podcast network? That's who that guy is now, right?

• 1:23:18Speaker 11

  Right.

• 1:23:19Speaker 07

  Selling like fucking brain powder?

• 1:23:20Speaker 12

  You're staring right at Sean, as you say.

• 1:23:23Speaker 07

  Sean?

• 1:23:25Speaker 11

  American Psycho. You guys like that movie?

• 1:23:27Sean Fennessey?

  I do.

• 1:23:28Speaker 11

  Yeah, pretty good. Great videotapes movie.

• 1:23:30Speaker 07

  I have never heard you talk about that film. I think it's a movie I assumed you didn't like as in over 10 years. It's like never come up in conversation.

• 1:23:38Speaker 11

  Okay, well.

• 1:23:39Speaker 07

  I know, I'm just saying.

• 1:23:40Speaker 11

  You got another pick?

• 1:23:43Speaker 11

  Oscar winner is my final category. I'm taking.

• 1:23:47Sean Fennessey?

  A lot on the board here.

• 1:23:48Speaker 11

  I know. And it's like, do I go boring? Or do I like go personal? I'm not sure. But I do think the answer is Godfather Part Two. Because I do think that's like

• 1:24:00Speaker 11

  the most beautiful. You were saying it during the trivia round, like just the shot of the boy sitting in Ellis Island. Like, 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 that are great, but like that Coppola for Part Two is like, this is what this is about.

• 1:24:18Speaker 12

  You think that the polite applause is because everybody here knows this is a Lake Tahoe movie?

• 1:24:24Speaker 11

  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 that the rooftop scene, you know, after he, yeah, that's, that's, that's beautiful.

• 1:24:36Sean Fennessey?

  It's a great pick for your last pick.

• 1:24:39Speaker 11

  Thank you.

• 1:24:41Speaker 11

  Now I'm just gonna rag on whatever you guys pick.

• 1:24:45Speaker 11

  I wanna say also, no white cards for me.

• 1:24:50Speaker 11

  Look at that.

• 1:24:52Sean Fennessey?

  Elizabeth, did you rig this for David? Okay, I have one more pick. I haven't picked Subway movie. I'm gonna pick Dress to Kill.

• 1:25:01Sean Fennessey?

  So, very famous scene in Brian Palm's "Dressed to Kill", where the killer approaches Nancy Allen and is trying to take care of her. And while she's riding the subway, that is just absolutely harrowing. And 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 gonna take it here at this exact moment.

• 1:25:20Speaker 11

  It's a good pick. Great pick.

• 1:25:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Great job.

• 1:25:22Speaker 11

  Can I shout out?

• 1:25:23Speaker 07

  I was watching this last night. It's great.

• 1:25:25Speaker 11

  Can I shout out a couple of good subway movies? I was trying to think. Or should we wait till the end?

• 1:25:30Sean Fennessey?

  Assuming you're not gonna take one of them.

• 1:25:31Speaker 11

  Well, Subway's done. You filled it up.

• 1:25:33Amanda Dobbins?

  No, I have Oscar winner, so...

• 1:25:35Sean Fennessey?

  I know, but he might say a Subway movie.

• 1:25:37Speaker 11

  Oh, okay, so I'll be quiet. I'll be quiet.

• 1:25:39Sean Fennessey?

  I can think of one off the top of my head.

• 1:25:40Speaker 11

  It's just an important category to me.

• 1:25:41Speaker 07

  Yeah. So you have Oscar left?

• 1:25:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, but it's Griffin's pick.

• 1:25:44Speaker 07

  Oh, it's Griffin's pick. Sorry. Uh, I mean, there are a lot of great historic New York comedies I could pick. Little Nicky.

• 1:25:54Speaker 07

  Ants.

• 1:25:57Speaker 07

  These are those kind of chalk picks, as if I wanted to convince this audience of my erudite taste.

• 1:26:02Speaker 11

  Right.

• 1:26:04Speaker 07

  And CR, you picked "All That Jazz". I'm wearing an "All That Jazz" t-shirt.

• 1:26:07Amanda Dobbins?

  I feel bad.

• 1:26:08Speaker 07

  It is a great movie about how hard it is to make it. And especially make it and 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".

• 1:26:31Amanda Dobbins?

  Good one.

• 1:26:37Speaker 07

  A 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. And the Muppets have to come back together and put on a show.

• 1:27:03Speaker 11

  They never did that before on The Muppets, anything like that.

• 1:27:06Speaker 07

  It's an origin story!

• 1:27:07Speaker 11

  Oh, okay, okay.

• 1:27:09Speaker 07

  So they technically hadn't done it before, if you're looking at the timeline. It's a slippery cannon.

• 1:27:16Speaker 11

  It's kind of the Andor of... Oh, surprise, surprise. That one had to get written down.

• 1:27:23Speaker 07

  Got 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 think. 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 pick. Yeah, yeah.

• 1:27:53Speaker 12

  I got stressed out when you said that.

• 1:27:56Speaker 07

  You have a Muppet comp, CR? Uh. Are you familiar with the Muppets?

• 1:28:00Amanda Dobbins?

  Animals.

• 1:28:00Speaker 07

  Animals.

• 1:28:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:28:01Speaker 07

  That's your animal. Yeah. You could also.

• 1:28:03Amanda Dobbins?

  That's correct.

• 1:28:04Speaker 07

  Yeah, you could be Crazy Harry, I think, as well. Bomb thrower. Yeah, you're Sam Eagle. Yeah.

• 1:28:13Speaker 07

  There have to be rules. Important function, important function, the dynamic. I'm also an icon of this country. A true patriot.

• 1:28:22Speaker 12

  I always liked the Swedish chef, right? Yeah.

• 1:28:25Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:28:25Speaker 07

  Because you're always cooking.

• 1:28:28Amanda Dobbins?

  Just naming Muppets. Okay, I have Oscar winner left.

• 1:28:32Speaker 07

  We know who you are.

• 1:28:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:28:42Speaker 07

  Get on that.

• 1:28:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, so I have Oscar winner, and I'm torn between being cute and trying. Trying to win is not really, like, I love all of the picks, but.

• 1:28:58Speaker 07

  The eternal struggle.

• 1:28:59Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:28:59Speaker 07

  Cute or winning?

• 1:29:00Amanda Dobbins?

  Cute or winning. I think that I'm going to do a middle ground, and in, I can't believe that this is the sixth round, I will be taking Michael Clayton, an Oscar winner.

• 1:29:16Speaker 11

  Tilda. Tilda's the lone Oscar for that movie, right?

• 1:29:19Amanda Dobbins?

  Tilda, yes. Tilda's win.

• 1:29:22Sean Fennessey?

  One of the great Milwaukee movies.

• 1:29:25Speaker 12

  One of the great movies about agricultural crime.

• 1:29:28Amanda Dobbins?

  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 and...

• 1:29:42Sean Fennessey?

  By Brian Koppelman at the poker table.

• 1:29:43Amanda Dobbins?

  And Brian Koppelman and Sidney Pollack just telling you what's what. And also that the suburbs are a scary place full of rich people who yell at you. Yeah.

• 1:30:00Amanda Dobbins?

  It's one of the great movies. It'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 the "in this house, we believe that Michael Clayton is underrepresented"? You know, whatever. That's a thing that we have in Los Angeles. We'll bring it to you.

• 1:30:17Amanda Dobbins?

  Look it up on the internet.

• 1:30:18Speaker 12

  Yeah, those will swing the tide.

• 1:30:22Speaker 12

  We're gonna get this country back on track.

• 1:30:26Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, Michael Clayton.

• 1:30:28Sean Fennessey?

  Well...

• 1:30:29Speaker 12

  I'm so excited 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!

• 1:30:43Speaker 12

  Let me guess.

• 1:30:47Speaker 12

  This is a great movie about losing yourself to your work, which I think is a common experience in New York City.

• 1:30:56Sean Fennessey?

  Tell us about your research when you did the rewatchables for this film. What did you do?

• 1:31:01Speaker 12

  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 of years, right? Redone on DVD. I highly recommend that.

• 1:31:26Speaker 12

  I adore this movie.

• 1:31:28Speaker 07

  When you started your pick by saying it's Saturday night, I thought you were drafting Jason Reitman's Saturday Night.

• 1:31:34Sean Fennessey?

  Jason Reitman's New York masterpiece.

• 1:31:37Speaker 07

  It's about getting lost in your work.

• 1:31:40Sean Fennessey?

  The movie was shot in Vancouver, right?

• 1:31:42Speaker 12

  Saturday night?

• 1:31:43Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah.

• 1:31:43Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 1:31:44Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah.

• 1:31:44Speaker 12

  I was actually gonna say it would be fun to have clearly not shot in New York, New York movies.

• 1:31:49Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 1:31:50Speaker 12

  Because Escape from New York is shot in St. Louis.

• 1:31:52Sean Fennessey?

  I mean, that's a good, that's an entree to our honorable mentions conversation, which could be quite long, but we'll try to keep it brief. But I, is Eyes Wide Shut a New York movie?

• 1:31:59Speaker 11

  100%.

• 1:31:59Speaker 12

  I thought about it very soon.

• 1:32:00Speaker 11

  And I thought about picking it, and I'm almost surprised it didn't go.

• 1:32:04Sean Fennessey?

  Because it is an amazing New York movie that is also shot in London.

• 1:32:08Speaker 11

  But the snow globe haunted bizarro New York is what's fun about it. I don't know.

• 1:32:14Amanda Dobbins?

  I think it counts. Though I, I mean, you know, 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 like 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, it's whatever. So I think Eyes Wide Shut, yes. Bringing Up Baby and all the Batman movies, no.

• 1:32:48Speaker 12

  Escape from New York, though?

• 1:32:49Sean Fennessey?

  I think Escape from New York, for sure.

• 1:32:51Speaker 11

  And the title.

• 1:32:52Speaker 07

  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.

• 1:33:10Sean Fennessey?

  Okay, honorable mentions.

• 1:33:11Speaker 07

  What did I just do, like, three or four?

• 1:33:13Sean Fennessey?

  Please.

• 1:33:15Speaker 12

  Um, Cloverfield.

• 1:33:19Sean Fennessey?

  Add it on my list.

• 1:33:20Speaker 07

  Add it on my list.

• 1:33:20Speaker 12

  I just like, love as a New York movie. I'll also throw out-

• 1:33:23Sean Fennessey?

  It's a really good movie about going to parties at 26.

• 1:33:27Speaker 12

  Yes.

• 1:33:28Speaker 11

  Good subway, good subway stuff, too.

• 1:33:30Sean Fennessey?

  Good subway.

• 1:33:30Speaker 07

  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.

• 1:33:40Speaker 12

  My subway backup pick was Inside Blue and Davis.

• 1:33:44Speaker 11

  Yep.

• 1:33:45Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, good one.

• 1:33:46Speaker 11

  Also a good subway scene.

• 1:33:48Speaker 12

  And, uh, nobody picked Enora?

• 1:33:51Sean Fennessey?

  Yes, my niece who is here texted me during the show, which I received whilst looking at my phone, "You have to take Enora."

• 1:33:59Sean Fennessey?

  To her, I would just like to say I'm sorry.

• 1:34:02Speaker 12

  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.

• 1:34:12Speaker 12

  Wow, silence to that.

• 1:34:14Sean Fennessey?

  Good, good call. Nobody took West Side Story.

• 1:34:17Amanda Dobbins?

  I, I almost did, and then I did Michael Clayton at the end, but I was gonna, I was gonna snap and everything. 1961, not The Spielberg, though The Spielberg's good, too.

• 1:34:26Speaker 11

  I thought about it for Oscar winner at the end there. I thought about Rosemary's Baby, iconic New York movie.

• 1:34:33Sean Fennessey?

  Absolutely.

• 1:34:34Speaker 11

  I thought about, I cannot believe The Devil Wears Prada was not picked.

• 1:34:39Amanda Dobbins?

  I know, and thank you all for giving me that space, but I feel like I've, 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?

• 1:34:54Speaker 11

  That was, that was an obvious one.

• 1:34:56Amanda Dobbins?

  Fatal 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. Let's see.

• 1:35:07Sean Fennessey?

  Relate to that film?

• 1:35:09Amanda Dobbins?

  Cruel Intentions?

• 1:35:10Sean Fennessey?

  Sure.

• 1:35:11Amanda Dobbins?

  I don't live in the suburbs.

• 1:35:12Sean Fennessey?

  Is Cruel Intentions New York?

• 1:35:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:35:15Speaker 11

  Upper East Side, you know, private school.

• 1:35:18Amanda Dobbins?

  No one, no one took Malcolm X. I mean, we have Spike Lee represented, but that's pretty intense. The Apartment, like the most winningest, Best Picture. We talked about Age of Innocence in Trivia, but not in this draft, which is sort of disrespectful. And...

• 1:35:36Speaker 11

  Great Chelsea movie.

• 1:35:37Amanda Dobbins?

  And Inside Man.

• 1:35:38Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 1:35:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Which was on the backup for, for Thriller, for sure.

• 1:35:42Sean Fennessey?

  What about Ghost?

• 1:35:43Amanda Dobbins?

  I had it on my subway, yeah.

• 1:35:45Speaker 12

  I thought that's where you were going in your subway pick, when you say the inciting scene happened.

• 1:35:50Sean Fennessey?

  Get off my train. That guy's name Vincent Chevelli?

• 1:35:54Speaker 11

  Yeah, Vincent Chevelli.

• 1:35:55Sean Fennessey?

  That guy is so New York.

• 1:35:56Speaker 07

  Uh, I feel like it maybe would have won me the draft, but my other option in comedy that was seriously considered was Coming to America, which I'm surprised no one talked about.

• 1:36:04Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah.

• 1:36:04Amanda Dobbins?

  That would have been a good one.

• 1:36:05Sean Fennessey?

  I kind of blinked with Wolf of Wall Street. I was gonna go Coming to America and then I just got beaten down.

• 1:36:09Speaker 11

  You got Marty Blindness.

• 1:36:11Speaker 07

  I thought Shaft, an Oscar winner, would be a particularly cool move to take it there, uh, cause it is one of the coolest Oscar wins ever. Um, also, I ruled against it because it was too cute. I 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.

• 1:36:30Speaker 11

  It's a 10 percenter. 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. Uh, I had some other obvious ones. I feel like Black Swan?

• 1:36:45Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:36:45Speaker 11

  People don't talk about it anymore, but that's a great New York movie.

• 1:36:48Speaker 07

  You gotta bring Black Swan back.

• 1:36:49Speaker 11

  This city's gonna kill me.

• 1:36:50Amanda Dobbins?

  Do we?

• 1:36:50Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:36:51Sean Fennessey?

  Let's do it like a-

• 1:36:51Speaker 07

  Let's do it like a minute by minute pot of swan pot.

• 1:36:55Speaker 11

  Absolutely.

• 1:36:55Sean Fennessey?

  Let's start it right now. Let's run it.

• 1:36:57Speaker 07

  Uh, here's one I was really thinking over. Citizen Kane is a New York movie, right?

• 1:37:02Speaker 11

  It's got a lot of New York.

• 1:37:03Sean Fennessey?

  It's set in New York, but you don't see really any of New York.

• 1:37:06Speaker 07

  But it's like 60%, you know, he woos a showgirl. He runs a New York paper. Like, he makes his fortune here. Yeah.

• 1:37:13Speaker 11

  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?

• 1:37:23Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:37:25Speaker 11

  Even though it's easy to get around.

• 1:37:27Sean Fennessey?

  Precedent's in that movie.

• 1:37:28Speaker 07

  One of his top five films. One of his top five best film performances.

• 1:37:32Speaker 11

  Uh, Breakfast at Tiffany's is a fairly iconic New York movie.

• 1:37:35Speaker 07

  With great politics. Great politics in that movie, yeah.

• 1:37:40Speaker 11

  This is on here that I feel.

• 1:37:41Sean Fennessey?

  What about The Devil's Advocate?

• 1:37:43Amanda Dobbins?

  I can't believe you didn't do it.

• 1:37:46Sean Fennessey?

  Upon reflection.

• 1:37:47Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:37:48Sean Fennessey?

  I've made a mistake.

• 1:37:49Speaker 11

  Well, like Devil's Advocate, I love Devil's Advocate, but that's kind of bad Rosemary's Baby, right? Cause that's also about like kind of going insane in your apartment building.

• 1:37:56Sean Fennessey?

  I wouldn't use the word bad when I talked about The Devil's Advocate.

• 1:37:59Speaker 11

  Because you're afraid that he's gonna come after you, John Milton?

• 1:38:02Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah. Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste.

• 1:38:10Sean Fennessey?

  Taste!

• 1:38:12Speaker 11

  But don't swallow. Wait, one Efron thing, I know you wanted to say. Sleepless in Seattle is barely set in New York, and yet it is very much a New York movie, right? Because it has iconic New York stuff.

• 1:38:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Because they are going to New York.

• 1:38:26Speaker 11

  And the whole last act is New York.

• 1:38:27Amanda Dobbins?

  There are two scenes, both like they are at dinner with the Empire, like with Bill Pullman, the Empire State Building behind it. And then, so I do think it's eligible.

• 1:38:34Speaker 07

  Doesn't she work in Baltimore in the movie?

• 1:38:36Speaker 11

  Baltimore.

• 1:38:36Amanda Dobbins?

  She does. And this was a, this was a point of discussion in the Chicago draft, where everyone tried to tell me that she actually worked in Chicago in the newspaper. But no, it was Baltimore.

• 1:38:46Speaker 11

  He's in Chicago at the start of the movie. He goes to Seattle. She's in Baltimore.

• 1:38:50Amanda Dobbins?

  He's in Chicago?

• 1:38:51Speaker 11

  At the start of the movie. He has to leave. He's got, his wife died. He's gonna buy a houseboat!

• 1:38:57Amanda Dobbins?

  I, I.

• 1:38:58Speaker 11

  I did the, I did the commentary on the 4K release of that movie.

• 1:39:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, all right. Okay, you would know. Okay.

• 1:39:04Speaker 11

  Confirmed.

• 1:39:05Amanda Dobbins?

  So I feel, it's, but I would say Seattle number one, New York number two, Baltimore three, Chicago four, as far as that movie's allegiances go.

• 1:39:15Speaker 07

  It's a joint custody situation.

• 1:39:17Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:39:17Speaker 07

  Yeah. In terms of which city claims it. Yeah.

• 1:39:19Speaker 11

  But just, just to bring up North.

• 1:39:20Amanda Dobbins?

  I was, like, it happened one night as another one where they're trying to get to New York.

• 1:39:24Speaker 11

  Yeah. Right.

• 1:39:24Amanda Dobbins?

  But they, like, they do eventually, so that counts, even though a lot of it's on the road.

• 1:39:29Sean Fennessey?

  I 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.

• 1:39:45Sean Fennessey?

  It's so relatable.

• 1:39:47Speaker 11

  That was you watching David Peterson the other weekend?

• 1:39:50Speaker 07

  There was, there was a wildcard category that you, I think wisely chose to cut this morning, but I was gonna get funky there and maybe either draft Life Lessons, the Scorsese segment from New York Stories that fucking rules.

• 1:40:03Sean Fennessey?

  Great movie.

• 1:40:03Speaker 07

  Or The Cruise, the Bennett Miller documentary.

• 1:40:06Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:40:06Speaker 07

  Which is one of the most New York-y movies.

• 1:40:08Speaker 11

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:40:09Speaker 07

  At the grade path.

• 1:40:10Speaker 11

  Um.

• 1:40:11Speaker 07

  We have to fight it.

• 1:40:12Speaker 11

  Carlito's Way. That's got some great train stuff.

• 1:40:14Sean Fennessey?

  Great, great, great subway station scene in Carlito's Way. I thought you would've gone for that.

• 1:40:18Speaker 07

  I was thinking about it. Uh, we didn't talk about Last Days of Disco. Juliet Littman texted me while we were on stage.

• 1:40:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, we didn't say Metropolitan.

• 1:40:25Speaker 07

  I didn't say Metropolitan. I guess Kids is in there. It's not, not a real feel-good movie, but.

• 1:40:31Sean Fennessey?

  Why did you not take it?

• 1:40:33Speaker 12

  I'm just, I couldn't figure out the right category for it, you know?

• 1:40:36Sean Fennessey?

  Wags just texted me Sweet Smell of Success.

• 1:40:38Speaker 12

  Sweet Smell of Success is on my list.

• 1:40:39Sean Fennessey?

  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 us.

• 1:40:46Speaker 12

  What 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.

• 1:40:53Sean Fennessey?

  That was the first five years of the big picture.

• 1:40:56Speaker 11

  The Avengers, not to be boring.

• 1:40:58Speaker 12

  Oh yeah, that's right.

• 1:40:59Sean Fennessey?

  I was a guy who really likes The Avengers here. I was gonna start crying.

• 1:41:04Speaker 11

  They have the Battle of New York in that movie. I don't know if you remember.

• 1:41:08Speaker 12

  That's right.

• 1:41:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh yeah.

• 1:41:09Speaker 12

  What happened?

• 1:41:09Amanda Dobbins?

  They got like the swarm.

• 1:41:11Sean Fennessey?

  What's up with the Chitauri?

• 1:41:13Speaker 11

  What's up with the Chitauri?

• 1:41:14Speaker 12

  I don't know. We treated them very poorly.

• 1:41:19Speaker 11

  Um, Aronofsky, you know, I don't like Hot Ceiling, but Requiem for a Dream is a great Coney Island movie. Pie is also a great New York movie, has great Subway stuff.

• 1:41:27Speaker 12

  Also about the Mets, yeah.

• 1:41:29Speaker 11

  Yep, yep.

• 1:41:30Speaker 12

  Noah.

• 1:41:31Speaker 11

  Noah, that was all shot in New York.

• 1:41:33Speaker 12

  Early New York.

• 1:41:34Speaker 11

  He shot the whole thing in the East River. It's crazy.

• 1:41:37Speaker 12

  That's the original force water landing.

• 1:41:41Sean Fennessey?

  We've officially entered just naming movies territory.

• 1:41:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:41:44Sean Fennessey?

  Just how I know we are at the end.

• 1:41:45Speaker 12

  You know, season two of Rescue Me. I could go on. Season one of Rescue Me.

• 1:41:50Sean Fennessey?

  Everybody meet David outside. He'll be just saying the names of films for roughly four hours. You can do this all night, just like Captain America. Um, hey.

• 1:42:00Amanda Dobbins?

  QR code.

• 1:42:01Sean Fennessey?

  QR code. We're gonna vote now.

• 1:42:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah. So you guys, you get to vote. Yeah.

• 1:42:05Sean Fennessey?

  Pop on the screen, you'll see.

• 1:42:08Amanda Dobbins?

  You all know what to do.

• 1:42:10Sean Fennessey?

  While you're voting, we're gonna run through our picks. So Chris, why don't you read your picks from this draft?

• 1:42:15Speaker 12

  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.

• 1:42:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Really funny that that was the first pick overall, given the rest of the thing.

• 1:42:35Speaker 11

  I fucking nailed it.

• 1:42:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Um, 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, Frances Ha.

• 1:42:50Sean Fennessey?

  Griffin.

• 1:42:51Speaker 12

  Uh, in drama, I paid my respects to an American hero named Captain Chesley Sullenberger.

• 1:43:00Speaker 07

  In comedy, I kinda snuck a psychological thriller in there called The Muppet Steak Manhattan. Action horror thriller, The Warriors, Dog Day Afternoon, an Oscar winner for Screenplay. When Harry Met Sully for Blockbuster, and in Subway, I took Spider-Man 2.

• 1:43:17Sean Fennessey?

  In drama, I took Taxi Driver. In comedy, I took The Wolf of Wall Street. In action horror thriller, I took Uncut Gems. An Oscar winner, I took Goodfellas, perhaps you've heard of it. In Blockbuster, I took Ghostbusters. And in Subway, I took Dress to Kill.

• 1:43:32Speaker 11

  For me in drama, I took Do the Right Thing. Comedy, I took Royal Tenenbaums. Action horror thriller, I took American Psycho. Oscar winner, Godfather Part II, Blockbuster Men in Black. And my Subway movie was The Taking Impale on 123. I think David's gonna win.

• 1:43:46Amanda Dobbins?

  You do?

• 1:43:47Speaker 07

  I think David's gonna win.

• 1:43:48Sean Fennessey?

  David's gonna win.

• 1:43:48Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:43:50Sean Fennessey?

  Sean, you, I don't know.

• 1:43:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Tenenbaums do the right thing, and Men in Black is powerful.

• 1:43:53Speaker 07

  Dudes who weren't here will vote for Sean.

• 1:43:56Sean Fennessey?

  Dudes who weren't here, all my underground men.

• 1:44:00Speaker 11

  But like, if the 155 souls that Sully saved are here, Griffin's got a big shot.

• 1:44:08Sean Fennessey?

  Yeah. And thank God, he saved them.

• 1:44:10Speaker 11

  He did.

• 1:44:11Sean Fennessey?

  Where would this draft be without that moment?

• 1:44:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Are we, how much longer?

• 1:44:15Sean Fennessey?

  How long do we take? We gotta wait roughly 80 minutes. Are you guys okay with that? To tabulate the scores?

• 1:44:19Amanda Dobbins?

  Jack is saying 30 more seconds, and he's doing...

• 1:44:21Sean Fennessey?

  30 more? He's giving us...

• 1:44:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, he's doing baseball.

• 1:44:24Sean Fennessey?

  So can you vamp?

• 1:44:24Amanda Dobbins?

  How the Philly's doing? What's going on?

• 1:44:26Speaker 07

  They're losing.

• 1:44:26Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh no, what happened?

• 1:44:28Speaker 11

  It's the top of the ninth, it's 5-3 Dodgers.

• 1:44:31Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:44:32Sean Fennessey?

  Oh my word.

• 1:44:34Amanda Dobbins?

  It's bad?

• 1:44:35Speaker 07

  5-3 in the top of the ninth.

• 1:44:36Speaker 11

  Oh, Honey went 0 for 4. Oh, Tony, sir.

• 1:44:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:44:39Speaker 09

  All right, I feel comfortable calling this race.

• 1:44:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, it's time?

• 1:44:43Speaker 09

  It's time.

• 1:44:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:44:45Speaker 09

  In fifth place, Christopher Ryan.

• 1:44:48Speaker 07

  Oh. That's fucking crazy!

• 1:44:52Speaker 09

  For the record, Die Hard with a Vengeance, amazing pick.

• 1:44:56Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:44:57Speaker 09

  Fourth place, Griffin Newman.

• 1:44:59Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh.

• 1:45:00Speaker 07

  Spoke too many truths here tonight.

• 1:45:02Sean Fennessey?

  Did. You did. You kept it too real.

• 1:45:04Speaker 07

  Yep.

• 1:45:05Speaker 09

  In third place, Sean Fennessy.

• 1:45:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh wow. All right, David, you wanna hold hands with me?

• 1:45:10Speaker 11

  Absolutely.

• 1:45:11Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, here we go. Here we go.

• 1:45:13Speaker 11

  Here we go.

• 1:45:13Amanda Dobbins?

  Ready? Just like Miss America.

• 1:45:15Speaker 11

  Wow.

• 1:45:16Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:45:17Speaker 11

  Oh, look at all these guys.

• 1:45:19Speaker 09

  In second place, Amanda Dobbins.

• 1:45:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh!

• 1:45:23Speaker 11

  Wow!

• 1:45:23Speaker 09

  Which means David has won the New York City Movie Draft.

• 1:45:29Sean Fennessey?

  High five, come on. Well done.

• 1:45:34Sean Fennessey?

  All right. David Sims is your winner tonight. He's your winner, but go to your ballot box. Stuff it.

• 1:45:43Sean Fennessey?

  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.

• 1:45:57Sean Fennessey?

  Thank you to Jack Sanders, whose voice you've heard all night. He's the producer of our show.

• 1:46:03Sean Fennessey?

  Thank you so much to Elizabeth, Helen and Charlie from our events team who killed it.

• 1:46:10Sean Fennessey?

  Thank you to LinkedIn Ads for supporting this episode. Thank you to Criterion for putting Borkays in your hands.

• 1:46:18Sean Fennessey?

  Thank you to CR,

• 1:46:25Sean Fennessey?

  who is my brother and drafted DH with a V first overall at the New York City Movie Draft.

• 1:46:32Sean Fennessey?

  Thank you to New York City.

• 1:46:34Amanda Dobbins?

  Thank you to all of you.

• 1:46:36Sean Fennessey?

  Which is the best city in the world.

• 1:46:38Amanda Dobbins?

  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.

• 1:46:51Sean Fennessey?

  Yes, I guess. Amanda, good job. We're not making eye contact.

• 1:46:57Sean Fennessey?

  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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