At this point, the history of cinema in the Big Apple is a chicken-or-egg situation: Are movies iconic because they take place in New York City, or is New York City iconic because it features in so ...

“I Am Legend”/Warner Bros. A desolate, overgrown hellscape ravaged by virus-infected zombies. A huge, walled maximum-security prison. Floods and earthquakes bring down an entire skyline. The moon ...

The New York Film Festival, the centerpiece of the city’s year in cinephilia, is a victim of its own success. Many of its most noteworthy films are already scheduled for commercial release soon—which ...