Duh!

More celebrity action shots!

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New York 1 stickers?

Fake video cameras for the fake reporters?

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Denzel and James Gandolfini’s stunt doubles.

The Real Denzel and Gandolfini. Check out those glasses!

The Taking of Pelham 123 has “taken” over Dumbo!
Check out these crazy photos from my lunchtime stroll. Were the Office of Emergency Management people who gave me dirty looks real or actors?
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You go girl.

Today (and tomorrow) on Jay Street, perhaps the biggest filming event on our block in recent memory — the remake of the 1974 classic The Taking of Pelham 123. We will be bringing you live coverage of our block / location. Dumbo is buzzing with PA’s and boom mikes. Exact locations available on Dumbo NYC.

Lucas has excellent taste in classic movies, and I’m sure my boyfriend is going to make me watch them all. (This is the boyfriend who asked recently if it was possible to have cable but only pay for Turner Classic Movies.)

Some of us, however, prefer our movies

1. In color
2. In English
3. Audible (meaning with audio tracks from the last 20 years)

Also, I need montage sequences set to music that reminds me of my own life, not French folk songs from the 1930s. This helps a lot when you’re trying to salve fresh recession wounds.
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Fire up those Netflix queues. Lucas Joaquin recommends films to watch during the recession.

“L’Argent” (1983, Robert Bresson)

A teenage boy in Paris passes off a counterfeit bill to make some extra money, and we follow the repercussions, eventually leading to a man’s incarceration, and a family’s murder. Robert Bresson, cinematic genius and Jansenist Catholic, delivers his final film, and the only one completely devoid of any hope for redemption. Dealing with the manner in which duplicity and dishonesty are passed along from generation to generation, this is recession special #1.

Fire up those Netflix queues. Lucas Joaquin recommends films to watch during the recession.

“Thieve’s Highway” (1949, Jules Dassin)

Nick Garcos comes home from war to find that his father has been crippled by a crooked produce distributor in San Francisco. He sets out to take revenge, but gets wrapped up in a plan to drive a truck full of Golden Delicious apples from Fresno to San Francisco, running into more than a few troubles once he gets there. Directed by later-blacklisted director Jules Dassin (“Never on Sunday,” “Topkapi”) this is another one that takes on our corrupt system, scrutinizing it at its most basic level, the selling of food.