For anyone that actually visits my little blog with any kind of regularity I’m sorry for the lack of posts in recent weeks. I’ve been swamped with uni work in preparation for my exams. They’re all done now so hopefully I’ll be able to spend some time with my blog.
I’ve planned to do a Top 10 of 2009 (like everyone does) around the middle of December and I’m gonna do my Top 100 for the decade as well. I’m trying to fit in a bunch of films by then so that my list is a little better.
I visited NYC back in August for the very first time and it was love at first sight. I have a real hard time explaining why I love NYC so much but after just a couple of hours wandering the city I knew it was the greatest place I’d ever been. I can’t think of anywhere else I could walk from 10am to 9pm without really doing anything and enjoy myself as much as I did. NYC makes me feel like no place has ever made me feel before. It really is the greatest city in the world.
To relate this back to the site, I just discovered that the poster for Once Upon a Time in America is a photo of a street with a view of the Manhattan Bridge. I actually walked down this street and took a photo of the bridge (with the Empire State Building visible through the middle) without realising the connection. Here are the two images side by side. Save for the cars, not much has changed in the 25 years since the film was released.
