Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It by Jason Bailey
“New York is not just a city. It’s The City.... Los Angeles is the city of angels and the city of dreams, but it will never be The City. New York knows it. Los Angeles knows it. And the entertainment industry knows it,” writes New York magazine’s Matt Zoller Seitz in his foreword to Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It, an impressive new book by the film critic, historian, and Bronx resident Jason Bailey.
It’s true that New York is the one city whose identity is inextricably linked to its cinema, but what came first, The City or the movies?
