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

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

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

I'm Sean Fennacy. And this is the big picture, a conversation show about New York City. Okay, I know. All right, okay, okay. Thank you. As you may have surmised based on the boards behind us, we will be drafting tonight. What are we drafting? New York City. 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. Thank you to all of you for coming. 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. This episode is presented by LinkedIn Ads.

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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. What do you want to say about the trivia? We wrote it ourselves, and it is quite hard. Um, 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 going to need to wave. You're going to, you know, if you know it, be confident. Don't yell. Yeah, and don't yell out the answer. The microphone is going to come to you. It is your moment.

Let's start. Okay. So we're going to read the question and you're going to raise your hand and you're going to act like a civilized person. Amanda, I think you wrote the first question. Did you not? 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. 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 until it's done, but he was very early. Okay. Everybody else. There's a man on the far right side who waved both hands, which means he definitely can do this. Don't see. through this up, sir. Stand up, come on. Stand up, please. All right. Don't applaud him.

Save your applause for after he's answered the question, please. One. Kramer versus Kramer. Two. Birdman. Three. Godfather. Four.

Uh, uh, Annie Hall. Five. Five. The question is, would you have accepted Godfather 2? Godfather 2? Yeah. I would argue Godfather 2 is the superior New York movie. I agree, you know, but it is, you know, more spread out.

Sure, but, I mean, we're literally coming off of Ellis Island into New York City. I get it. Okay. Second question. New York filmmaking icon, Spike Lee, has never won Best Director at the Oscar. 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. Is it Ang Lee? That's correct. All right. All right. You ask the next one, and then I'll do number four. Okay. 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. Oh, and now I'm scared. Is it Sean Baker with the Prince of Broadway and Enora? You've got two of three.

Takeout? Can I say Takeout? Can I do it? Come on. Yes. High counsel. It's you. Congratulations. I forgot the question. There we go. Was that the only person who raised their hand for that answer? Did anybody else even raise their hand? All right. Damn. We're changing lanes here a little. Where in New York City? Does the devil wears Pradas, Andy Sachs, pick up an early galley of the last Harry Potter book? Okay, right there. Front and center. You can do it. Doesn't she meet his character at the St. Regis Hotel to pick it up from Christian Thompson? Oh.

Oh. Oh. The Magnolia room? So close and it's not. And I'm really, but I... That is incorrect. Okay. All right.

You're waving. We have one back here's waving. I'm really... Listen, you're very close. Yeah, back there, double hands. 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. That's correct. You should go. It is very fun. Well done.

Okay, this is a long one. 13 feature films directed by Martin Scorsese are primarily set in New York. Name 10. Green hat on the end here. Bringer hat. All right. Thank you for wearing a ringer hat. I wish I had one of those.

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 Mean Streets Yes Oh boy No hints, please

Listen but don't turn away Free Knowledge that's given to you also That is very fair If you could not get it, someone will be able to pick up right where you left off. Okay, tap in. Oh, that's nice. What? I have love for all of you right now.

Yeah, over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're waving. Okay, good. Do I get his four? You get his five, yes, he got five. But can you remember which five they are? And can we?

Did he say me? If you repeat one of his five, you have to. leave the show. I got it. I get it. Did he say mean streets? He did. All right.

Okay. So let's work chronologically. Did he say tax? Folks, if you don't know the answers, don't raise your hand. I know the answer. Taxi driver? Do you say taxi drivers?

New York, New York. Let's just, let's get on the board. New York, New York is six. New York. Keep going. Sir, this is being recorded. Gangs of New York. Age of Innocence.

Yeah, that was one. Innocence, yes, that's seven. I'm going to say safely not cundun. Gangs in New York. King of comedy, definitely in 83. Technically, 83. Wait, is that count? What did you say?

He said king of comedy, but. King of comedy, yes. How many am I at? That's three. You need two more. Okay, two more. We are going to turn a clock on. Not silence.

We have to leave here by a certain time. Hugo is in France. Yeah. All right. Raging Bull. Raging Bowl. Yes, that's nine. That's what this was, by the way, in case anyone was... Boxcar Bertha? Pardon me?

Boxcar Bertha? No. Boxcar Bertha is not a New York film. Okay. But listen, a valiant effort. Okay, so we need one more. You pick. I'm not picking. Okay. All right.

I say that after us. After us. Straight shirt waving double hands. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Number 10 is the Irishman. That's correct.

That was sort of a team effort, so if you want to share your blue-rays, you know, it's really up to you. You probably should share your blue-rays. That's something I would recommend. Questions we did not hear from that category. Who's that knocking at my door, his first feature film? After hours? Shame on you guys. And bringing out the dead. Okay, next one. One of the New York City movie discs in the gift bag is the Daytrippers, a Long Island to New York City family dramedy that Sean adores. Eleven 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. Super bad. Correct. Super bad is correct. Yeah, super bad. 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. Saboteur. That's right. Saboteur. Do you want to do the nine and then I'll do eight?

What's your preference? Why don't you do the next two? I mean, I wrote the last three, but that's okay. In when Harry met Sally, of course, typecasting, the iconic, I'll have what she's having seen takes place at Katz's Deli. I like the enthusiasm. 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, and the, yes, yeah? A turkey sandwich? No. Okay, all right, yes. Enthusiasm. Wait, wait for a microphone, sir. Okay, yeah, wait for a mic.

By the way, I wrote this question. You didn't write this question. Oh, that's right. You did write this one. Yeah, sorry. Sorry. It is, what is a pastrami sandwich? No.

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

Oh. Oh, now it's getting tricky back there on the aisle, in the white sweater. It's because you don't listen to women. That's the problem. There's a white sweater, V-neck, it's great. Coleslaw? Yes. Polslaw is correct. Because, of course, you have to get Coleslaw at Katz's Deli.

Okay, next one. Oh, sorry. My phone locked. What is the address of the Tenenbaum family home in West Anderson's, the Royal Tenenbombs? oh we've got it in the back two of you okay 111 archer avenue there we go very good very good I wouldn't have been able to get that

okay our final trivia question this is the last one what time is it this is a key tenet It's a key tenet of the Rebellions. I'm surprised you can't name it. What's up?

New York. What's going on? Okay. Yeah, there you go. All right, there's a... In the center up top, in the... Yeah. Very enthusiastically.

Yeah. Okay. Wait for the mic. Wait for the mic. Wait for the mic. Wait for the mic. Wait for the mic. don't clapster please be patient this is the rebellion we're not trying to rush our meal at

McDonald's time doesn't exist yet it controls us anyway that's correct that is my favorite line from tron aries man 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. Chris Ryan is here. What's up? 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 going to bring them out right now from Blank Check, David Sims, and Griffin Newman. Hello. Hey, guys. Let's go, Mets. Hey, guys.

They're going to put your three names up there at the end of the night, right? Emerson, Einstein, Bach, Beethoven, Fantasy Dobbins, Ryan. It's quite embarrassing. James Baldwin was in this room, Susan Sontek. You know, I got a whole history of the 92nd Street Y. Top 5 Ys. Where is this one in Reg for you? It's technically 92 for me.

Okay, yeah. So five movie podcasters on one stage. Before we draft, we usually talk about the subject of the draft and what it means to us. Now, all five of us have lived inside of this city. We've spent some time here. The three of us no longer do on any regular basis. Cowards. I accept.

Yeah. You know. That's, I mean, David's stroking. It's very generous of you three to invite us on to the show tonight. I think what he meant to say is you're quitters. Be that as it may. Chris Ryan, why don't I start with you? New York City.

Yeah. What does it mean to you? And what does it mean to the movies? Well, this is going to be a really fun draft and a very easy draft to prepare for because these are just the best movies. It's true. 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 due in no small part to the movies that we're going to talk about tonight. Amanda, what about you?

I mean, same. I moved here in 2006 right after college because of all the things that. I saw in the movies. So, um, it's, I, I miss it very much. Uh, I'm really, really glad to be back right now. Um, 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. And met most everyone that I think is worth knowing, including everyone on the stage in New York City. So, I'm very glad to be back. Amanda, did you move here before or after devilware's product? It was, same year. 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? Yeah. I'll help you. That's where it was. 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.

Griffin, I think you're the only one of us that was born and fully raised here. Is that right? Well, David, right? You grew up in New York and lived here your entire life. The fuck out of here. Set that up for you. That shit is illegal. Put that on the T for blank check.

Yeah, no, I'm born and bred and broken. I tried to go to Calaging, California, and ran back screaming. It spat him back out. It spat me back out. I spat back at them, but they had one. It was more a... Well, let me ask you about that since then. 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. Yes, but I do feel like even the most gritty, neorealistic, New York movies do kind of present a more a static version of New York, you know? There's 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 of your window. Yeah. David, what about your circuitous route back here? 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.

But where? Where? We're all right. London, England, baby. Woo! North London, go, go Gunners. I figured that a land. All right. You know what?

You know what? Not on my podcast. Thank you. I don't know what's happening right now. 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 that like, yes, again, somewhat romantic vision of the city

even at its dirtiest, like me being like, I gotta get back there. And then I got back here, and here I am. Let's go Mets. Let's go Mets. I couldn't agree with that more. So many sad Yankee fans out there tonight. Sorry, guys.

I was going to say, how are they doing? Phillies are winning? Philly's are what? They're winning. We do like every 20 minutes get a Phillies score update. If the Phillies continue to win, feel free to shout out. Did they start losing?

Is he off? or any yeah um yeah i'm from long island so i felt no he's still 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 um and i i probably i don't reveered it more because i felt that close to it and then by the time i was a teenager 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, it was cold and mean. And I was like, I got to 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. Those are sandwich movies The last kind of work It is funny you ended up with Basically the exact Subway logo in the color scheme

It's true No free ads Uh huh You're just the guy to revive Subway's fortunes too You're just like the straight shooters Just like I'm gonna bring sandwiches back In this country

Um 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. So you've just introduced iconic into the conversation. That was just him being lazy. It can just be a subway scene. It doesn't have to be iconic.

Any subway scene? Yes. Like, man gets on subway in a movie? Well, that sounds terrible. Why would you draft that? We're deeming it iconic. Yeah, if you're drafted, it's not. If you remember that it happened.

Guys, I made this rule. What are you talking about? Yeah, but you're not, you did not add that information until this moment. You said pivotal. Pivotal. I said pivotal. It's place on a subway. Okay.

Pivotal? Yeah. I accept. Okay. I have a genuine question on this topic. Must one board the train for it to count as a subway scene. I don't think so. I don't think.

Yeah. I don't. I don't. I don't, what do you guys think? No, no. 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. We love the subway. What lines was I in it?

R. Great. It's a bad train. You guys paid for this. I was on the two. I was on the F. Yeah. Did you get asked for a subway take?

Did I get asked? You know, like, didn't why we're on it so much. If only. No. Yeah. No. Do you want to give it now? I don't.

Yeah, what's yours? No, not one that I can share. Yeah. They're largely about the sandwich company subway. Any stray subway thoughts before we figure out our draft order? Well, I asked if Gotham was eligible for this draft, and you said no, Gotham City.

Gotham is not a real city. Right, it's not a real city. In the world of Batman, who is not a real person. You don't know that. Is anyone here Batman tonight? Is Batman here? So Joker's not eligible for Subway, for anything. I mean, I don't think so.

You want Gotham to be a part of the draft for tonight? No, I don't. I was just stirring things up. Hold on, though. Hold on, because we have precedent. Dark Night. Is it a Chicago movie? Was it eligible in the Chicago draft?

I don't even, did it get drafted? You guys know better than we do. Yeah. It did. Who drafted it? Tracy left. Let's, no, I do. Tracy, that's who's not seen it.

I don't think he's a dark thing. But he owns the blue, right? Tracy, the trench run sucks, Lutz. He just tossed that take out. He was just like, oh, by the way, trench run ass. We all agree that Star Wars has a shitty ending, right? Waiting for you guys to jump in and have a high go. God bless him, I love him, man.

Even with the hand, yeah, it's good. You love you, Tracy. He has won Pulitzer's and Tony Awards, and the first line of his obituary will be a guy who said the trench run sucks has died. There's no respect for gold leader. Any of our guys. 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!

Fuck! Why do we even have a trench? How did he make this shot? Jack, you might have to delete all this. Speaking of Jack, we have to set our draft order. Yeah. So, let's do that. Jack, can you tell us what kind of hat is being used tonight?

Unfortunately, a New York Metropolitan's hat. Yeah. Bring Pete back. You don't want to come out? You don't want a shining moment? I can see Jack. Any cost. I'm with you.

I want to bring Pete back. People like the voice of God. All right. We love you. All right, here we go. No top gun hat. Shout out Bobby Wagner in the building. Bobby!

Where are you? Wave, Bob. I can't see Oh, there he is. Hi, Bob. I'm seeing Wax tomorrow. I'm not worried about this. I can see the mustache in the shadow. 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. Oh, wow. All right. Everyone welcome Elizabeth. This is so official. Selecting second.

Amanda Dobbins Oh, okay. Third will be Griffin Newman. Right. Wow. Fourth, Sean, fifth. Oh. But you get the turn.

I'm right where I want to be, baby. Yeah, I was going to say. All right. So we're going to 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. Well, so do you want to mention

the Blockbuster is a $50 million threshold. So it makes it a slightly tighter category. But the film I'm going to pick while I'm picking it in Blockbuster is also just the one that I think reflects my experience in New York the most. Raging Bull. And it is Die Hard with a Vengeance. Wow. Wow.

A great pick. I worked tirelessly as a mime in Central Park. and you have no idea what taxi cabs 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 Salmell 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. I think they're looking furious. for Die Hard with a vengeance. Are you serious? No one saw that coming as the first overall pick. Did you know Martin Scorsese was born here? Yeah. I'll get Scorsese down the line.

I'll get all sorts of stuff down. There are 13 of them. There are more dirty cops than there are picks to pick from here. I can't only get John McLean following an ambulance down an avenue once. Are you, like, how do you feel? I'm torn here because I definitely. thought he was going to pick another movie first pick, and I want it. And I do also, there's a strategic thing here, right? Where I am going to have to wait for a while, and there's

some films I want that I know you two in particular will also want. Wow. So. Elizabeth is asking how to spell vengeance. She's like, what movie is this for the first overall thing? I really, I love this movie. What are you talking about? I love this movie. I would Never take it from it. They had like 3,000 cards printed, and then we went off with the first one.

You could still have Home Alone, too. It's okay. I know you love the supporting cast in that film. Do you remember we did, I want to say it was the 2013 movie draft, and CR, out of nowhere, took Iron Man 3 first overall. Great movie.

Best Marvel movie. We were in, it was in COVID, and Amanda and I were just like, Doug, what? And then what happened to this podcast? Went to the mood, man. Okay. Okay, die heart of the vengeance.

So Amanda, you have a choice. And that's going in Blockbuster. Yes. Okay. 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. You got to 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 Francis Haugh. Wow. Wow. This is a crazy story.

What is going on? This is not where I thought you were going in that ramp up. I love that movie. 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. Francis Ha was lickety split. That was right there.

Elizabeth knew what was coming. She's nimble. I am a bomb-back 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 Francis Ha was released in 2013, I guess, here. But I was one year older than Francis Ha when 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 and the choreography is quite promising but I was also flailing and so the magic of that movie is that it is both

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. What's the subway scene?

I was going to say the same thing. It is when Mickey Sumner, it is when Sophie tells Francis that she's moving in with Patch. Yeah. And there lies all the problems, you know? Yeah, it's just, I love that movie. And then Francis takes the subway alone.

Do we, like, teleport to the fifth round of this draft? Like, what's going on? You love Francis Ha! I do love it. I think it's a great New York movie. Absolute masterpiece, but yeah. I'm just,

this is two picks in a row that I just did not see comedy. Okay. Well, fine. Take Goodfellas. Go ahead. I'm going to take Goodfellas for God's stuff. All right.

All right. And Oscar winner, I'll take Goodfellas. It's not your pick, Sean. God damn it. Do it. Griffin. You're the funniest thing ever. 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 okay i'm a little surprised dh with a v is not in your big three was four i do want to say all right it was on the board it was on the board dh with the v is a great subway scene i had that on my subway i would have dropped it i would have drafted in blockbuster was my strategy there um i just tell us what they are Just list all of them. No. I am going to in Oscar winner draft dog day afternoon. Okay.

Okay. Good one. Oh, sure. It is less of a strategic play and more, if I look deep into my soul, that is my knee-jerk, greatest New York movie of all-time answer. Good pick. Lumet, your favorite guy? Lumet, one of my absolute favorites, one of the great New York director.

and I think a little undersung in the canon of the great New York directors and made so many great New York masterpieces. Not on this. But it's, I'm gonna say it, it is kind of 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, it's the fucking best. It rules. 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. Yes.

I thought of as like a pitching that as a category, like outer burrow. We thought of all five boroughs. That would have been crazy. We talked about that. That would have been hard. King of Staten Island number one overall for Chris. Still on the board for you, potentially. Are you including, do you think of Long Island as part of this larger project here? I don't. That's the Burgeon Tunnel draft. That's a different draft. I think there are, there are, Tri-City. How dare you? How dare you, New York snob? I left Goodfellows for you. 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 part. And we're kind of okay with that, but not really. Goodfellas, though, wow, there is plenty of Long Island in Goodfellas, actually, quite a bit. In fact, you could say it's more of a Long Island film than in New York.

Well, I would argue it's more of an Outer Borough's 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 everyone in Goodfellas is regular, right?

I think that they're perfectly nice people. And I think everything that they did was fine. Lufthansa was just asking to get heisted. we should clarify that Oscar winner is for a winner in any category because Goodfellas famously did not win best picture it lost two dances with wolves which we all agree was okay but Joe Pesci did win for a supporting actor for 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 very original good job just win baby that's the goal Yeah, I'm going to be pretty regular, I think, to start off. Do the right thing in drama, please. Come on. Which is, with 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. Yeah, the best. The best movie. It's one of the best movies ever made. It's an easy picture. It's in blue.

Look, there's colors. We each have our own color. Oh, fuck. Yeah. I guess. No, that's not how it works. Really? What's going on here?

Because they don't know. Yeah. It's just, you know. It's just fun. Okay. At different colors. Yeah, do the right thing. Sad story of an innocent pizza guy who has this day ruin.

I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm so sorry. Business owners. Just making some pies. That's a description in the Christmas Adventures movie guide. I know the crowd. And then some crowd on the train shows up.

That's also a reference to the film One Battle After Another Guys. I do not think that. Yeah. Maybe the most iconic New York movie, right, in the conversation? It's definitely up there. Best Brooklyn movie? Best Brooklyn movie. Yeah, sure.

I mean, Dog Day Afternoon is Brooklyn as well. Is it? never seen it not your kind of thing you wouldn't like it yeah uh and then in blockbuster i want men in black wow wow which is the best new york blockbuster ever made and is the number one i bet she doesn't have this yeah i don't i bet she doesn't either uh she's going to get it because i drafted it she does oh yes elizabeth men in black you guys elizabeth comes prepared the long list for this draft was 467 movies.

And we have cards for every single one. Except die hard with Avengers. Except for one. The first pick. We have cards for like the crowd. He had to fly a separate plane in

to get all the cards. But we did not see D.H. with a V coming. This movie came out in 1997. I lived in England, but I was still like pretty close. Shut the fuck. I didn't say anything.

I didn't say anything. 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 deal in with life in the city every single day. Yeah. It's so beautiful. It's a perfect movie.

90 minutes long. It's very short. Have you seen Men in Black? Yeah, why? I don't know. Sometimes you really, the mid-90s things that children could see is sometimes. I was allowed to see. anything I wanted.

Yeah. Anything you wanted? Anything that was of interest to me, I was allowed to see. There was no rules about that kind of thing. Was that one of your three? No. But you wanted it.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I told you like the first sex scene I ever saw was an X caliber. Remember? Oh yeah. We know. Yes.

Chris, my father is going. Please. Mr. Fantasy, it's about King Arthur. And, um, I'll tell you later. Yeah. It's very erotic. I have a pick.

Yeah, it's your pick. I'm taking in Blockbuster Ghostbusters. In part because I know who is picking next, and I know how Griffin's mind works. Can I ask you a question just right off the top here? Just slow down. You're just getting a little aggressive. I've just selected and haven't spoken yet about my pick.

You go ahead and talk about Ghostbusters. Go ahead to talk about Ghostbusters. What's your question? Do you think Ghostbusters? The Ghostbusters True is actually more New York. Vigo the Carpathian? Yeah. He wasn't born in New York.

No, I know. But he's like kind of feeding off of the psychic energy of the city. 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, Staypuff Marstermel, man, really one of the first, you know, true. New Yorkers? Yeah. He's kind of got the energy of a New Yorker. You know, he's like, get out of my way.

Yeah, it's true. I want what I want. Yeah. I'm walking here. Right. Oh, wow. Ghostbusters, there's not a card. 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, one, is really smart comedically about, understanding the tenor of this city and how it would react to things like the Saypuff marshmallow man and the response to that was so great from the world that Ghostbusters too 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 okay like the river you can't have it though so what's your back well two still are you a Ghostbusters 2 guy? Is that why you're asking? I always thought Vigo was pretty interesting. Yeah. Yeah. You kind of have like a Vigo thing. Yeah, exactly. You can admit the same natural male energy.

He's got good ideas, good politics. You could be Chris the Philadelphian. Call me that from now on. Okay, Griffin, you're up. Well, that was the move I was going to make. So two of three are gone? Yes. Okay.

I'm going to have, I think this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to in-subway movie draft Spider-Man 2. Yeah. Yeah. Now, it's it's a fantasy subway. It's a fantasy subway. Which one is upside-down?

This is when he saves the train. It transforms into the Chicago L. Yeah, it's an elevated subway in Manhattan. I know that the upside-down kiss is not on the train. I was just extrapolated it. Well, isn't the upside-down kiss in the first spider? Correct. Oh, it is. Oh, okay. And Spider-Man, he also saves the the ferry, right?

This man is leaving because you've drafted Spider-Man, too. I apologize. He's like, I've had enough of this. It's like, 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. It's fine. In characterizing the experience of the subway so well.

I love how this crowd is incensed anytime a handwritten sign comes out. For the record, you made the list. 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.

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 Spide, you got to 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 secrets safe. And that's what you were doing with Cuomo this morning, right? You were like, if you want to get to him, you're going to have to get through me.

Please, Sean, Andrew Cuomo does not take the subway. Come on. When we did Ramey 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 is the main character, that everyone treats him like he's a background actor. 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 got to help him. He's okay. You know, it swings both ways, much like Spider-Man. Yes. And he means in the bedroom. Yeah, right. Flip in the menu.

You must be devastated to have Spider-Rexam board. You've got a lot of your key texts taken from here. Yeah, these are some boy movies now that I'm looking at it. Francis Hoff fighting the fight. I mean, I do think that Sean is going to 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 going to look you right in the eye. Okay.

I don't know if you want this. Oh, fuck, are you going to take, yeah. Yeah, I think I am really sorry. But in drama, I'm going to take 25th hour. that's fucked up yeah both dramas are spikes 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 Montia drug dealer it's his last day before going to jail it is also famously Spikeley'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... You do that every day.

Yeah, I was like, now I'm wrecked. Now I just have to like sit here for 20 minutes. Chris does the speech in the mirror. Every day, yeah. And absolutely 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.

Not eligible in Blockbuster. Yeah. Great movie. I'm going to have fun later. That's a great pick. Thank you. Also, one of Chris Ryan's favorite. I love that movie more than, more than Die Hard with a Vengeance.

That's my fault. Okay, so for Subway movie, I'm going to go with the French Connection. Nice. There we go. Good pick. 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 well he outsmarts it i know right well that's i mean the movie would have ended right there if he and now when i got in the car chase best known for this

incredible car chase directed by william freakin this is a multi-time Oscar winner so somewhat strategically i take that off of the board but uh one of the great cop movies one of the great new york movies and changed the way car chases were shot on film uh reflected even in in one battle after another just recently released so that leaves me with another pick. Life of a showgirl is not eligible. How many times have you gone to the theater? Best album since Lover.

Just throwing that out there. Free yourselves from the Jack Endenoff Prison. I asked you this yesterday because you were the first person I ever heard say that they like this new album. I was shocked. 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, hmm, I'm bopping, you know? I can't believe. the world we live in now is being 12 hours late to an album, because you dared sleep. In action horror

thriller, I'm going to take rear window. Oh, good! This is, all right. 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. All right. You know, like, are you like a, Were you looking out the window? Oh, yeah. 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. It was Jimmy Stewart. When you move here, you go get your telephoto lens. Set it up. Grace Kelly's making me breakfast. It's great stuff. One of the great, great Hitchcock movies, one of the greatest movies ever made.

Yeah. The best. And also isolates a very New York condition. Yes. Yeah. The best theater experience you can get from a movie, I think. Rear window, you think? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like a movie that is wonderful at home, but like is 100 billion times better in a movie theater. Yeah. Great take. Yeah. What's the outdoor movie theater in Brooklyn overlooking the bridge? The skyline? I think it's called the skyline. I went there a lot in COVID.

I haven't been there since. Yeah. I saw Rear Window there with my wife. Hell yeah. He saw Armaged in there, one of the great New York movies. We saw Armaged in there, one of the great New York movies, Eddie Griffin, the little Chihuahua. Remember all that.

It's Eddie Griffin, right? Yeah. You got another pick? That was it? He did too. What did you just take? Rear window and... French connection.

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. Okay. Okay.

I was like, what are we doing here? You were waiting. But yes, in Blockbuster, my first Nora Fron pick, we'll see whether there's another, is, in fact, you've got mail. I, yeah. Whoa. I do know that this is controversial.

I think that when Harry Met Sally is the best and the most influential, you've got male as 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, you know, very of the Upper West Side and makes reference to the Upper West Side. So in, you know, some ways that was my introduction. to that part of New York.

You know, a sort of indefensible movie from a moral perspective. Like most of her movies. 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 coming. It's early email, though. Like, who knew? Yeah. You know what I mean? We're just trying it out. We're just trying to figure it out.

Like, you know, 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 going to 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, imagine. I would cost $180,000. And then I would have had to have a pumpkin, you know, a whole thing. So you've got mail.

Interesting, not on my board. It's about the Barnes & Noble and 83nd Broadway. I grew up in 89th in Amsterdam, which displace Westside books, which, you know, it's about that. And now I look at that Barnes & Noble, I'm like, this is an institution of the upper way. It's a beautiful Barnes & Noble.

It's crazy. It's true. I like how you did Spider-Man 2 voice about that. They sell books in here. Get out of here. Paper. It's like, it's to me, like, one of the better movies about, like, the battle for the soul of New York. Yeah, which is a direct quote from Kathleen Kelly.

Yes. And I respect that pick, and because of that, I'm going to draft when Harry met Sally in Blockbuster. Yeah. Okay. You boxed me in? I knew what I was doing. I had to do it. I had to do.

I respect it. Needed a Nora on my board. Not a Nora. Not a Nora. Yeah. A Nora. A Nora Ephron picture. One of the most, like, a beautifully shot New York movie.

movies, in my opinion? Barry Sondonfeld, just like fucking going to the mat. Blacking out. Just being insane. Yeah. And like one of the great...

Just like creating autumn. This is why you come here. So good. Is to hear about Barry Sondonfeld blacking out during the making of when Harry met Sally. This is movie podcasting. Leaves had only ever been green

until when Harry met Sally. He was like, they could be brown. 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 textually

explicitly New Yorkie then you've got mail which is like about the city but it is so much a movie about New Yorker they're at the like the Temple of Dender in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

there are they have lunch like cats is at the boat basin when Carrie Fisher is going through the Rolodex you know yeah they're everywhere how well shot it is sharper image you know it is a movie that is just like

full of New York locations in a way that no one would have access to today a pillar of New York iconography sharper image Glombe never forgotten Sixthray and fringe on top In front of Ira! Fucking Ira.

I have a pick, right? Do you feel like you've got too many choices? You seem vexed. Well... Oh, great. 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.

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, um, only when they show Excalibur, yeah. But just that, I love that, you know, the sequence, obviously, where he goes, where Bickle goes into

the, um, campaign office, which is just right on a street corner and kind of prominently displayed. And that is the kind of essence of, 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 days, how isolated I am in Los Angeles. And so the idea of the

major isolation of Travis Pickle... You do also live in a castle, right? I live down to Abbey, which I had flown to Los Angeles. Nevertheless, no, I, obviously, New York is a, or LA is a lonely city. New York is not alone. People are around all of them. 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 in a lot people here like, God damn it, yes. Bickle? You did it, man. But it's an amazing film. That guy has no ripple effects in current society. Awesome. To your blaming Scorsesey for the state of affairs? Never. He just had, he had his finger on the pulse, and that pulse still goes peep, beep, beep. Okay, David, I'm going to take the royal tenem bombs in comedy. Okay. Nice job.

In comedy. Yes, I'm taking it in comedy. Okay. Which is where I want it. Okay. That sounded weird. It's 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 sort of set a little timeless, like a little before it would you say. It feels like kind of like early 80s, right?

Like sort of Wes Anderson's childhood, even though he didn't grow up in, like 1990, 79. Hamilton Hyatt. 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.

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. Yeah, the music is so evocative of the city. And, like, it's also just about like the kinds of freaks that end up succeeding here. in a way, right? You like cash? Yeah. Yeah, well, he's got some good ideas.

Has he made a New York movie in a while? Not really. He did such a good job. Wes. Yeah, there's not one since Tannenbox, I believe. I don't know if you're asked, Anderson. He's an expat now. He moved to Europe.

He's a Parisian boy now. But great movie. I'm picking a lot of movies that were big for me when I was like 14 years old. but that seems appropriate. Because you were living in. Northern England. What?

You say Northern England? I mean, I went to college in Northern England. He lived in North London. I lived in North London. Camden. Kenishtown, if anyone cares. All right. You have another pick.

Oh, yes. Right. I have another pick. In Subway, I want the taking of Pelham, one, two, three. This is my favorite New York movie. Original or remake? Original or remake? Original.

I love the remake. 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. It's vital for action and all that. Yet still you're taking it. I love this. This is my favorite movie of all time, I think. I was confident.

you were going to take this first, did you just think the rest of us wouldn't fight you for it? I took a calculated bet that you guys would pick weird shit like Francis Haugh.

Yeah. Because it's not, look, it's a celebrated movie and I think it's got like such a fan base now. But like I do feel like it was sort of more of like a forgotten-ish

like it's a Joseph Sargent movie. Like it's not like a great otter 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 bankrupt, the subway heist guys do that in taking a pell in one, two, three.

Do you guys like this movie? I love it. Yes. No, I think it's an amazing pick. 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, oh, Jesus Christ. Like the mayor, Walter Mathout, the cop,

Jerry Stiller, the, you know, train, the sub-MTA. I was just like, What now? This shit? I fucking can barely be alive here. And now I've got to do with this? The criminals also have that energy. Robert Shaw, Martin Balsom,

Hector Elizondo. Yes. They're all like, I guess we'll rob this train. You know, like, can we have like 10 grand in the mayor? It's 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 the best movie,

but it's my favorite movie. I watch it all the time. It's a great pick. Go rogue. Do something fun, yeah. Express yourself. Yeah, let's go. Go rogue?

Yeah, just do you have two Marty movies and Ghostbusters. It's a little obvious. Yeah, I'm freaking crushing it right now. Yeah, you are. In action horror thriller, I'll be taking uncut gems. All right. That's good. That's me.

I mean, you know, it's not really divergent. from the path very much, but it's good. I can only be myself. And I'll tell you a couple things. One, I saw in Kejim 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 of 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 Safdi brothers were doing with that movie, 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, very clear example of great on location, New York filmmaking, especially the scene outside of the auction hall when he's thrown in the phone. Yes, when he's thrown out. And he's, he's encountering all of these men in the street who all want something from him. And the safeties 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? It was good. Yeah. Good job. Thanks. 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. 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 are thrillers or thrillers.

I was saying or Amanda back seems 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 pieces. Like Serpico probably doesn't fit. Yeah. But I think it's what you just identified. It's whether or not it's typing, tapping into New York anxiety. If the anxiety is there, it becomes a thriller. He's taxi driver, like horror? Not really.

I don't think so. Yeah, it's a drama. Yeah, it's a drama. Like a character study. Right. Griffin, you're up. Are you going to manifest? What do you have left? What do I have left? Many, many things. Too many things. But I think...

I heard where the vengeance is off the board. I know. But you guys are sweating it now, right? You're like, damn it. Now you've got two bottles. You're filling them up. I genuinely thought about making that a trivia question. I would bring the jugs out from D.H. with a V

and see if anyone on stage could solve it. But that just seemed like kind of risky with all the electronics around. 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. I was really stressed and then you said that CR hasn't drafted it

and now I'm relieved. In Action Horror Thriller, I'm going to take the Warriors. Which is like one of the best fun house 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. It's a great subway movie too, But you have a subway. I thought about putting it in subway. But yeah, I mean, it is often cited. Diehard 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. It 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. Yes, and... You know, I've never...

I have to go back to me. Oh, yeah, that's right. 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? Did you consider full Baseball Fury's attire tonight? Yeah, I brought a baseball jersey backstage.

I thought about... I thought I didn't look good enough in it. And I was going to wear my Minor League Brooklyn Cyclones Toy Story jersey that I bought from their... recent toy story night. That's how you get me to go to a sporting event. But yeah, no, I'm picking the Warriors. Okay, good pick. All right. It takes it off the board for Subway as well. Yes. Okay. I already have a Subway. And I could draft this in Outer Burroughs if this were a thing that we're doing, but instead I will do it in comedy. Another music cue that I couldn't get cleared. It's

working girl, obviously. She 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. What do you relate to about this movie? Yeah. 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. Where would you litigate it? With some people on the stage at a time. VR? Yeah.

He did recently get a Blu-ray of it, right? You got one of those? I did, yes. It was gifted to me from Tracy Letts. Yeah, at like minute 300 of the physical media draft. most beautiful 300 minutes of my life. You rolled out a second suitcase and out came witness. Anyway,

working girl in Alzheimer. Great pick. Okay, Chris. Okay. Good day to die hard. That one. Comedy. But this is because there was a typo that changes,

that is disrespectful. So, yeah. So it was prepared, but that's better. Thank you, Elizabeth. So when we were backstage, our producer Jack Sander was telling a story about how last night at 1230 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 going to come get you or you're going to come meet me 12.30. 2 a.m., here's back from this person. Sorry, it's not going to happen. And that thing is like the central concede of after hours. And so I'm going to 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, 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. Plaster Paris, technically. I was thinking about this for subway because this feature is one of the greatest subway scenes of all time. He doesn't get on. It's why I asked.

Griffin done, he goes to the window and he tries to get a subway token and he doesn't realize that at midnight, the fair has changed and gone up. And he's got, he's 25 cents short on the fair. And he says to the guy in the window, can you just give it to me? Like, no one's going to know, just give it to me.

And the guy behind the window, who is the greatest New York Act of all time, says, I don't know, I could go to a party, get drunk, tell someone. It's the best movie ever made. 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.

The great New York Griffin movie. I will say definitive. Griffin Dunn, yeah, right. It's Soho Canon. I've been trying to put together a list quietly of the Soho Canon. Yes. Oh, wow. It is the number one Soho movie, like,

just cobblestones, weird warehouses, you know, the empty vibe of that neighborhood. Wall Street count or no? We're just caught stealing land in that. Caught stealing lanes in the garbage where it belongs. That movie is bad. Okay. It's all right.

After hours in comedy. And in Oscar winner, I will take all that jazz. There we go. Largely set in theaters and in Roy Shider's mind, Roy Shider of Bob Fosse's mind, but still captures the desperation of trying to, 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. Rory Shider plays Joe, who's basically Bob Fosse, trying to mount this say everything, leave it all on the field, production of a musical. Do you remember the name of the show that he's producing? I actually

don't. It's New York slash L.A. Oh. poignant. And Roy Shider gives... Dodgers are winning, by the way. This is one of my favorite performances. It's definitely my favorite or Shider performance, but it's one of my favorite acting performances.

So all that jazz for Oscar winner, one best editing and a bunch of other stuff. Polite applause. It's the best fucking movie. Okay, so I have two categories left. I have Action Horror Thriller and Oscar winner, I believe. Yes. Okay. I'm going to go with my heart,

and this one is also for 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 City? Yeah, they robbed the Met twice. 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. That's right.

What a day for McTiernan. When you think New York, you think John McTiernan. It's true. Was Predator available too tonight? They stole a painting and then he put it right back, you know? And also, then they danced really sexy at Chipriani's. So it's all and had sex on a marble staircase that is very realistic in terms of New York City homes.

My father is here. So my in-laws are here. Hi, Rich and Jane. 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, oh, well, that's okay you guys know that it's the remake. Griffin, you're up again. What do you, what do you got? What are you thinking? How are you feeling out? Look, there's something wait, I need to interrupt you for a second.

Griffin really wants to win. Fair badly. the last time we did this he won did you win both times who won the president we don't know if that was ever much like our own elections it's unclear you mean 2020 whether anyone was fairly

don't worry I know don't worry I won the lawyer one which I went a turbo mode grinding on much roughly 100 lawyer movies in four days before the draft that was really psychotic yeah I had zero fun during that draft I felt great once I won

but it felt like running a marathon How are you feeling right now? 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. And there's a part of me that does it. English Dave? God. Govna! I don't want to run the risk of letting him steal it for me,

even though I don't know if he could work it in his categories, but I'm going to fucking do it. In drama, I'm going to draft Clint Eastwood's masterpiece Sully. Woo! Yeah. Wow. I thought about it. One of the great New York movies.

I don't, did it win an Oscar for like sound editing or something? No, so I'm not sure I could fit it in my board. No, I don't think so. You're getting all your blank check in our big picture right now. 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 but I'm drafting it in drama disrespectful disrespectful The movies that have been handwritten would win the draft if they were put together Yeah 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. It's about a guy refusing to go to New Jersey. Well, this is the other thing. He won't fucking land to Teterboro. Thank you. You can go to Teterboro.

He's like, the Hudson. He eyeballed it. He's not making it. He eyeballed it. He didn't crash. It was a forced water landing. 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. 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. 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. In the final hearing, after he is found to be in the right, Anna Gunn says, by the way, I want to tell you, listening to that tape, that was extraordinary,

and they all have tears in their eyes. Including the audience. 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. This is so true. It's going to be okay

You did get the movie You do imagine Eastwood He's just lying still And they're like you know He landed the plane He's like I know and they're like And I guess there was some hearing And he's like hearing

Chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga There was administration and regulation I'll be there tomorrow I mean 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

If he's stuck in a hotel in New York, the movie spans the five days of him just being stuck in our city. We have more picks to make. But the highlight of the film is the rescue sequence itself where you cut to Turtle. All the boat.

You cut to the dispatcher and you watch how quickly our city comes together and gets shit done. So true. Sali, Sali, Sali, Sali, Sali, Sali, USA! Great decision, great decision.

That was a great decision. How many people over here have really seen Sully, honestly, honest times? Nine guys, you know? Letterbox logs tonight are going, boo! It's you, right? What am I supposed to do with that?

Just take another Scorsese movie and keep a movie. Mean streets. Honestly, I will. I'll take Wolf of Wall Street in comedy because I don't know. That's fine. That's your kind of New Yorker. You know, it's, I don't know how to even follow what you just did there.

Should I just explain every scene of the Wolf of Wall Street from start to finish? So McConaughey's talking about jerking off, right? Explain the scenes, but make it clear that you approve of what's happening with him. Yeah, this is obviously a tacit of 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. That's the point of the movie, yeah. Um, 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.

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. Clinties would made Sully, you know, at the age of 95. That's true. Um, he was awake every day on set. He woke up and he went to set. Um, 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? Yeah, of course. Like, D.H with a V. It was really funny that you picked that on purpose. This was eligible in Subway, too.

A pivotal scene. It is. Oh, that's right. Well, it's a wordless scene. But it's pivotal to our understanding. Explain it. 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 has shown just sitting on the subway by himself looking around being like, well, I did it, but also is this what I did? So that qualifies as... Taking the subway. That qualifies as pivotal?

Yes? Oh, my God. All right. Respect. Elizabeth, that was good. Elizabeth Fuhrman, everyone. 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. Yeah. Okay. It's a good pick. Hey, you don't have to be rude about it. I like the film. We did a whole podcast about it.

Who's next? Oh, I am? Already? Okay. Wait, no. No. I think it's up. Yeah.

My final two. Yeah. This is the end for me. It'll be okay. Back to England. In action, thriller, horror, I want American Psycho. A few options there.

This just feels like the New Yorkiest. 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. So, is John Wick sort of a fake New York?

I mean, it took... But it is New York, right? A ton of real location. 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? Yes. He kills freaking dog.

Yes. And then he's like, I'm John Wick. I have to wick you. He does do that. And then he goes to New York City. Yes. He goes to the Continental, which, of course, does not exist, but is shot in New York. Yeah, it's exterior.

Wall Street and downtown. But are, but they're like, this is New York and not, like, weird John Wick World. is New York. Johnwick is set in all the cities it's set in always, but it's sort of a weird fake New York. Where's that mountain town? The mountain town and John Wick 4? It looks lovely. Oh, that was ballerina. Sorry, thank you. It was from the world of John Wick. I think you mean John Wick's Ballerina? Yeah, right. Yeah. And that John Wick too has the incredible subway. But that's not shot on the subway. Sure. Sorry. Yeah. It wasn't. It was shot in like either Toronto or on the path or something. 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, I go like, oh, that is that building.

Right. Because it feels like it's Schumacher, Gotham or something. Right. Yeah. But I picked American Psycho, which is pretty unimpeachable. And 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.

What is it that you relate to with American Psycho? Yeah. It's the grind set mindset of it. I've gone full vintage here, right? Like, you know, 90s, 70s with. tell him 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 of 80s, New York. Forget about Raging Bull. We're talking about American Psycho. 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. With normal heads in it. It's a great, I just got my Blu-ray. I just re-watched it. In the Luca remake is fucking Patrick Bateman

going to have a podcast network? That's not who that guy is now, right? Right. He's selling like fucking brain powder? You're staring right at Sean, as you said. Sean? American Psycho. You guys like that movie?

I do. Yeah, pretty good. Great videotapes movie. I've never heard you talk about that film. I think it's a movie I assumed you didn't like because in over 10 years. It's like never come up in conversation. Okay, well, I know, I'm just saying.

You got another pick. Oscar winner is my final category. I'm taking a lot on the board here. I know, and it's right, do I go boring or do I, like, go personal? I'm not sure, but I do think the answer is Godfather Part 2. Because I do think that's like the most beautiful. You were saying it during the trivia round, like just the shot of the boys 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 great, but, like, that Coppola for Part 2 is, like, this is what this is about. Do you think that the polite applause is because everybody here knows this is a Lake Tahoe movie? 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 York's at the rooftop scene, you know, after he, yeah, that's, that's, that's, it's beautiful. I think it's a great pick for your last pick. Thank you.

Now I'm just going to rag on whatever you guys pick. I want to say also no white cards for me. Look at that. Elizabeth, did you rig this for David? Okay, I have one more pick. I haven't picked Subway movie. I'm going to pick Dress to Kill. So, very famous scene in Brian Palma's Dress to Kill,

where the killer approaches Nancy. Allen and is trying to take care of her and while she's riding the subway that it's 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 going to take it here at this exact moment. It's a good pick. Great pick. Great job. Can I shout out? I'm watching this last night. It's great. Can I shout a couple good subway movies? I was trying to think. Or should we wait till the end? Assuming you're not going to take one of them? Well, Subway's done. You filled it up? No, I have Oscar winner. So. I know what he might say a

Subway. Yeah. Oh, okay, so I'll be quiet. I'll be quiet. I think of one off the top of my head. It's just an important category to me. So you have Oscar left? Yeah, but it's Griffin's thing.

Oh, it's Griffin's pick. Sorry. I mean, there are a lot of great historic New York comedies I could pick Little Nicky. Ants. Those are this kind of chalk picks as if I wanted to convince this audience of my erudite taste. Right. And, and, and, C.R., you picked all that jazz. I'm wearing a little.

all that jazz t-shirt. 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. A good one. Oh. 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. They never did that before on the Muppets, anything like that. It's the origin story. Oh, okay, okay. So they technically hadn't done it before, if you're looking at the timeline.

It's a slippery canon. It's kind of the Andor. Oh, surprise, surprise. That one had to get written down. 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 feel? Well, now I want to know who you... Fawzzi is my one, but I do feel like there's an id ego, super ego of Fosy gonzow scooter. Yeah. But gun to my head, Fossey's the pick. Yeah, yeah.

I got stressed out when you said that. Okay. You have a Muppet comp, Sierra? Are you familiar with the trumpets? Animal. Animal. Animal. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's your animal. Yeah. You could also... Yeah, you could be crazy hair. I think as well. Bomb thrower. Yeah, you're a Sam Eagle. There have to be rules.

Important function. Important function, the dynamic. I'm also an icon of this country. A true patron. I always like the Swedish chef, right? Yeah. Because you're always cooking. Just name me Muppets.

Okay, I have Oscar winner left. We know who you are. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so I have Oscar winner, and I'm torn between being cute and trying to win is not really. Like, I love all of the picks, but. The eternal struggle. Yeah. Cute or winning.

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

Tilda is the lone Oscar for that movie, right? Tilda, yes. Filda, Spend. One of the great Milwaukee movies. One of the great movies about agricultural crime. Some unfortunate things do happen

in a parking lot, though off screen. Yeah, this is a movie about someone is handsome, as George Clooney, just being beaten down by, by this city. And Brian Copelman at the poker table. And Brian Cobbleman and, you know, and Sidney Pollock just telling you, telling you what's what, you know? And, and also that, you know, the suburbs are a scary place full of rich people who yell at you. Yeah. 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 they in this house? We believe that Michael Clayton is an underrepresented, you know, whatever. That's the thing that we have in Los Angeles. We'll bring it to you. Yeah, look it up on the internet. Yeah, those will swing the tide.

We're going to get this country back on track. Yeah, Michael Litton. Well, I'm so excited that 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. Let me guess. This is a great movie about losing yourself to your work, which I think is a common experience

in New York City. Tell us about your research when you did the rewatchables for this film. What did you do? I danced. I danced a lot. No, this was, this is William Freakin'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. Do you find a serial killer? It does.

Spoiler. It's a great film. It's been recently-ish in the last couple years, right? Redone on DVD. I highly recommend that. I adore this movie. When you started your pick by saying it's Saturday night, I thought you were drafting Jason Reitman's

Saturday night. Jason Reitman. New York Masterpiece. It's about getting lost in your work. The movie was shot in Vancouver, right? Saturday night? Yeah. Yeah.

I was actually going to say it would be fun to have clearly not shot in New York, New York movies. Yeah. Because escape from New York is shot in St. Louis. I mean, that's an entree to our honorable mentions conversation, which could be quite long, but we'll try to keep a brief. But is eyes wide shut a New York movie? A hundred percent.

And I thought about picking it, and I'm almost surprised it didn't go. Because it is an amazing New York movie That is also shot in London But the Snow Globe Haunted Bizarro New York Is what's fun about it I don't know It counts 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're 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 whatever. So I think eyes wide shut, yes. Bringing up baby and all the Batman movies now. Escape from New York, though?

I think escape from New York for sure. And the title. 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. Okay, honorable mentions. What did I just do like three or four? Please. Cloverfield. Add it on my list. Add it on my list.

I just like love as a New York movie. I'll also throw out. It's a really good movie about going to parties at 26. Yes. Good subway. Good subway stuff too. 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. My subway backup pick was inside Lewin Davis. Yeah.

Oh, good one. Also a good subway scene. And nobody picked a Nora. Yes, my niece who is here texted me during the show which I received whilst looking at my phone, you have to take a Nora. To her, I would just like to say, I'm sorry.

And just for I, as a story, 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. Wow, silence to that. Good call. Nobody took Westside story.

I almost did, and then I did Michael Clayton at the end, but I was going to snap and everything. 1961, not the Spielberg, though the Spielberg's good, too. I thought about it for an Oscar winner at the end there. I thought about Rosemary's baby. iconic New York movie.

Absolutely. I thought about, I cannot believe the devil wears Prada was not picked. I know. And thank you all for giving me that space. But I feel like I've done it

in other drafts. You know, we had a trivia question. It was my backup for Blackbuster. But listen, like, here are other things I didn't draft. West Side Story,

moonstruck. That was an obvious one. Fatal attraction, which I almost did in Thriller. And also unfaithful, speaking of Adrian Line movies about going to the suburbs and then needing to come back to get it on.

Let's see. Relate to that film? Cruel intentions. Sure. I don't live in the suburbs yet. Is it new intentions New York? Yeah. It's an Upper East Side, you know, private school. No one took Malcolm X. I mean, we have Spike Lee represented, but that's pretty intense. The apartment.

Like the winningness, best picture. We talked about Age of Innocence in trivia, but not in this draft, which is sort of disrespectful. Great Chelsea movie. And Inside Man. Yeah. Which was on the backup for thriller, for sure.

What about Ghost? I had it on my subway. I thought that's where you were going in your subway pick when you say the inciting scene happened. Get off my train. That guy's named Vincent Chiavelli? Yeah, Vincent Chivalry. That guy is so New York.

I feel like it maybe would have won me the draft, but my other option in comedy that was seriously considering was coming to America, which I'm surprised no one told it. That would have been a good one. I kind of blinked with Wolf of Wall Street. I was going to go coming to America,

and then I just got beaten down. You got Marty Blindness. I thought Shaft and Oscar winner would be a particularly cool move to take it there because it is one of the coolest Oscar wins ever. Also, I ruled against it because it was too cute. I adore The Whiz, which for me is one of the movies

that best captures the feeling of New York, even though it technically takes place in Oz. It's a 10-per-center. I thought, yeah, I pitched a category that was people who are walking here movie. And Shaft is a good one for that. Obviously, Midnight Cowboys is a good one for that. That's an Oscar winner right there. I had some other obvious ones.

I feel like, Black Swan. People don't talk about it anymore, but that's a great New York movie. That's a great, this city's going to kill me. Do we? Yeah. Let's put like a minute-by-minute pot of swan pot. Absolutely. Let's start it right now.

Let's run it. Here's one I was really thinking over. Citizen Kane is a New York movie It's got a lot of New York It's set in New York but you don't see really But it's 60% You know he woo's a showgirl He runs a New York paper

Like he makes his fortune here Yeah Catch me if he can in New York movie I mean it's got a lot of New York But not all over Home Alone 2 he is And you guys may not know this lost in New York Yeah

Even though it's easy to get around Presidents in that movie One of his top five films One of his top five best film performances. Breakfast at Tiffany's is a fairly iconic New York movie. With great politics. Great politics on that movie. This is on here that I feel.

What about the devil's advocate? I can't believe you didn't do it. Upon reflection. Yeah. I've made a mistake. Well, like, devil's advocate. I love devil's advocate. That's kind of bad, Rosemary's baby, right?

Because that's also about, like, kind of going insane in your apartment building. I wouldn't use the word bad when I talked about. the devil's... Are because you're afraid that he's going to come after you? John Milton? Yeah.

Look, but don't touch. Touch! Don't taste! Taste! 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. Because they are going to New York. And the whole last end is New York. 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. Doesn't she work in Baltimore in the movie?

Baltimore. 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 and the newspaper, but no, it was Baltimore. He's in Chicago at the start of the movie. He goes to Seattle. She's in Baltimore. He's in Chicago? At the start of the movie, he has to leave.

His wife died. He's got to buy a houseboat. I did that. I did the commentary on the 4K release of that movie. Okay, all right. Okay, you would know. Confirmed. So I feel, but I would say Seattle number one, New York number two, Baltimore 3, Chicago

4, as far as that movie's allegiances go. It's a joint custody situation. Yeah. In terms of which city claims it. Yeah. But just to bring up North. I was like, it happened one night as another one where they're trying to get to New York. Yeah.

Right. But they, like they do eventually, so that counts, even though. a lot of it's on the road I wanted to shout out two amazing ABLE Ferraro movies one is King of New York which is one of the best prime thrillers ever

and the other is bad lieutenant which is about Harvey Keitel losing his mind because the Mets suck is so relatable that was you watching David Peterson the other weekend there was a wildcard category that you I think wisely chose to cut

this morning but I was going to get funky there and maybe either draft life lessons, the Scorsese segment from New York stories that fucking rules. Or the Cruz, the Bennett Miller documentary. Yeah. Which is one of the most New Yorkie movies. At the grade path.

We have to fight it. Carlito's Way. That's got some great train stuff. Great subway station scene in Carlito's Way. I thought you would have gone for that. I was thinking about it. We didn't talk about last days of disco. Juliet Litman texted me while we were on stage.

Yeah. We didn't say Metropolitan. Subway one. Metropolitan. I guess kids is in there. It's not a real feel-good movie, but... Why did you not take it? I'm just...

I couldn't figure out the right category for it, you know? Wags just texted me sweet smell of success. Sweet-smell of success was on my list. 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 call... What if I just have like an earpiece in Wags?

It's just like, now say cruising. I know you haven't seen it, but pretend. Keep pretending. That was the first five years of the big picture. The Avengers, not to be boring. Oh, yeah, that's right. I was a guy who really likes the Avengers here. I'm going to start crying.

They have the Battle of New York in that movie. I don't know if you remember. Oh, yeah. They got like the Swarma? What's up with the Chittari? What's up with the Chitari? I'm doing much. We treated them very poorly.

Aronovsky, you know, I don't like caught stealing, but Requiem for a Dream is a great. Coney Island movie. Pie? is a great New York movie. He has great subway stuff. Also about the Mets. Yeah.

Yep. Noah. That was all shot in New York. Early New York. He shot the whole thing in the East River. It's crazy. That's the original force water landing. We've officially entered just naming movies territory.

Just how I know we are at the end. You know, season two of rescuing. I could go on. Season one of rescuing. 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. Hey, QR code.

QR code. We're going to vote now. Yeah. So you guys, you get to vote, yeah. Oh, la-la. Up on the screen, you'll see. Okay. You all know what to do.

While you're voting, we're going to run through our picks. So, Chris, why don't you read your picks from this draft? 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 D.H. with a V. And Subway was the French connection. This is really funny that that was the first pick overall.

I fucking nailed it. Yeah, you did. 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, Francis Ha. Griffin. In drama, I paid my respects to an American hero named Captain Chesley Sullenberger.

In comedy, I kind of snuck a psychological thriller in there called The Muppets Take Manhattan. Action horror thriller The Warriors, Dog Day Afternoon, an Oscar winner for screenplay. When Harry Met Sally for Blockbuster, and in Subway, I took Spider-Man 2. In drama, I took taxi driver. In comedy, I took The Wolf of Wall Street and action horror thriller, I took Uncut Jems. In Oscar winner, I took Goodfellas, perhaps you've heard of it. In Blockbuster,

I took Ghostbusters, and in Subway, I took Dress the Kill. For me, in drama, I took Do the Right Thing, Comedy, I took Royal Tenen Bombs, action, hard thrill, I took American Psycho, Oscar winner, Godfather, Part 2, Blockbuster, Men in Black, and my Subway movie was the Taking Impelum 1,2,3. I think David's going to win. You do.

I think David's going to win. Yeah. Sean, you, I don't know. You've got some heavy movies here. Dude who weren't here, we'll vote for Sean. Like, dudes who weren't here? All my underground men. But like, if the 155 souls that Sully saved are here,

Griffin's got a big shot. Yeah. And thank God he saved them. He did. Where would this draft be without that moment? How long do we take? We got to wait roughly 80 minutes. Are you guys okay with that?

Is how about the scores? Jack is saying 30 more seconds, and he's doing... 30 more... He's giving us handsick. Yeah, he's doing, he's doing baseball. So can you bam? How the Phillies doing? What's going on?

They're losing. Oh, no, what happened? It's the top of the ninth. It's 5-3 Dodgers. Okay. Oh, my word. It's bad? 5-3 in the top of the night.

Oh, honey went 0 for 4. Oh, Tani, sir. Okay. All right, I feel comfortable calling this race. Okay. It's time? It's time. Yeah.

In fifth place. Christopher Ryan Oh That's fucking crazy For the record Die Hard with a Vengeance Amazing pick Okay

Fourth place Griffin Newman Spoke too many Truths here tonight Did you did You kept it too real Yep In third place

Sean Fennacy Oh wow All right David you want to hold hands with me Absolutely Okay here we go Here we go Ready? Just like Miss America

Wow Okay. Oh, look at all these guys. In second place, Amanda Dobbins. Wow! Which means David has won the New York City movie draft. High five. Come on.

Well done. All right. David Sims is your winner. Tonight, he's your winner. But go to your ballot box, stuff it. If you're in line, stay in line. I have a great many people to thanks. 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. Thank you to Jack Sanders, whose voice you've heard all night. He's the producer of our show. Thank you so much to Elizabeth, Helen, and Charlie

from our events team who killed it. Thank you to LinkedIn ads for supporting this episode. Thank you to Criterion for putting 4Ks in your hands. Thank you to C.R. Who is my brother and drafted D.H. with a V first overall at the New York City movie draft. Thank you to New York City.

Yes. Thank you to all of you. Which is the best city in the world. 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. Yes, I guess. Amanda, good job. We're not making eye contact. 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. Thank you.