The Urge to Destroy New York on Film
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What is it with all these movies showing New York City utterly obliterated?
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It sounds like a horror movie: 720,000 ladybugs on the attack in Manhattan.
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A frenetic remake of a cult classic shows how each film generation finds its own tone and terrors
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The enduring theme of William Friedkinâs 1980 film âCruisingâ is the reality of evil and its uncomfortable proximity to sex.
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The most-hyped creature feature in years stalks the cineplexes, wreaking havoc on New York and rattling nerves.
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Many stage a walkout during the film screenings.
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Fahrenheit 9/11 is astounding. Not as much as a film - although it is cunning and moving â-ut as an event. What makes it an event is the fact that it is an effective and independent intervention into immediate world politics.
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What could've been the director's finest hour has turned into a nightmare.
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Damn those movie critics - and I make that statement fully understanding the irony behind it. Every now and then, for whatever reason, it seems as if critics get together in a secret clubhouse and decide to tear a picture to shreds.
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The movies in Film Forumâs N.Y.C. Noir series explore themes of guilt, desire, ambition and powerlessness, which New Yorkers know a thing or two about.
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The dirty looks and shouted slurs started in 1993 after Muslims living here helped plan the bombing that damaged the World Trade Center just across the Hudson River. They intensified after Sept. 11, 2001, when Muslim hijackers destroyed the twin towers.
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Kevin Keating&#039;s film, the  latest in a seemingly never-ending series of politically themed  documentaries presumably designed to have an impact on the  upcoming elections, deals with former New York mayor and  possible 2008 presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.
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Six years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the war on terror is coming to the big screen in a wave of films that examine severe U.S. tactics, troubled homecomings for U.S. veterans and the conflicts faced by troops hurled into urban warfare in Iraq.
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New York is striking back with better  bagels and tax breaks in its fight to keep motion picture  production in the Big Apple and stem the flight of the industry  to cheaper destinations like Canada.
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A New York City Council resolution to ban the infamous epithet may be well-intentioned, but it implies that black people are nothing but helpless targets
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New Yorkers are doing all they can to preserve the way Sept. 11 is commemorated, and with it falling on a Tuesday for the first time since 2001, the day is another trigger of tragic memories.
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There is a moment in the Russian mob  movie &quot;Eastern Promises&quot; when the level of violence rises so  high that the audience lets out a collective gasp, followed by  a ripple of nervous laughter.