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Join us in Season 2 as we watch NY films to explore the city's culture and history. This week we are in the middle of our Legendary Gangster theme and watched 1989's "Harlem Nights". It remains the only time Eddie Murphy directed a film. For this one Bruce and Sam dig in on gangsters in 1930s Harlem, alley ways, Richard Pryor, Red Fox, Eddie Murphy's crazy career high at this time, the many strange and fascinating scenes in this idiosyncratic film, "The Cotton Club", and more - join us! Music by Dylan Thurston (www.dylanthurston.com) and find our more about this episode at www.citybetween.com. Next week we will watch "The Godfather". 

In Season 2 of City Between we take on a film each episode to talk about NYC's history and culture. In this episode we discuss Walter Hill's 1979 classic "The Warriors". Bruce and Sam talk Michael Jackson's "Bad" video, gang names in NY in the 1970s, the failing subway system, Xenophon, Greek themes, production trouble, the Furies, Riverside Park, Hoyt-Schermerhorn, cemeteries and more in our "Legendary Gang Stories" theme.  Find out more about this episode at www.citybetween.com. Theme music by Dylan Thurston (www.dylanthurston.com). 

At the City Between podcast we discuss the films set in NYC to talk about NY's culture and history. In this episode we announce our next trilogy of films - Legendary Gang Stories - as well as some updates from NYC's reopening. We discuss what happened to the Raymond Street Jail, give a tip on the "The Great Gatsby" swimming pool and a report from Montero's Bar. Our new trilogy will begin next week. Find our more at www.citybetween.com. Theme music by Dylan Thurston www.dylanthurston.com.

In this episode we discuss Howard Hawke's 1940 film "His Girl Friday" to conclude our trilogy on the theme of Women at Work. Bruce and Sam dive deep on fast "natural" dialogue, the last hanging in NYC, rum in coffee, what is a "girl Friday", newspapers, corrupt mayors and more of NY culture and history. Find out more about this episode at www.citybetween.com. Theme music by Dylan Thurston (www.dylanthurston.com). 

In this episode we discuss Darnell Martin's 1994 film "I Like it Like That" about a young woman in the Bronx trying to make sense of a faltering marriage, new career and her place in the world. Bruce and Sam get into the history of stoops, Martin's work for Spike Lee, blackouts, Rita Moreno, and more. Join us at City Between for season 2 where use the films of NY to discuss the city's history and culture. Theme music by Dylan Thurston (www.dylanthurston.com) and more info about this episode at www.citybetween.com. 

In this episode of City Between we discuss the film "Working Girl" 1988 to dive into NY's history and culture. Bruce and Sam go deep on the Staten Island Ferry, commuter shoes, tequila, chardonnay, secretaries, the Customs House, Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford and more - Join us! This is the first film in a trilogy about working women - next up is 1994's "I Like it Like That". Join us! 

The amazing theme music is by Dylan Thurston - find out more at www.dylanthurston.com.

Find out more about this episode at www.citybetween.com.

At the City Between podcast we discuss the films set in NYC to talk about NY's culture and history. In this episode we announce our next trilogy of films as well as some updates from NYC's reopening - bars, museums and more we are excited about returning from the pandemic. Our new trilogy will begin next week. Find our more at www.citybetween.com.

In this episode we discuss Baz Lurhmann's 2013 epic "The Great Gatsby" and talk about NY history and culture. Bruce and Sam get into speakeasies, Jazz and Hip-Hop, Fitzgerald's lost love, Prohibition, 3-D, the Valley of Ashes, Jay Leno, the Plaza, East Egg vs. West Egg and more (they do not discuss the green light). Jump in and join the ride.. 

The amazing theme music is by Dylan Thurston - find out more at www.dylanthurston.com. 

Find out more about this episode at www.citybetween.com.

City Between is a podcast about NY history and culture explored through film. In this episode we discuss Whit Stillman's "Metropolitan" (1990) and what the film can tell us about New York history and culture. Bruce and Sam talk about The Plaza, the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie, tuxedos, UES bars, the Fifth Avenue windows, Jane Austen, Debutante Balls, the Aristocracy, late night conversations, Automats, Checker Cabs, and more. 

The amazing theme music is by Dylan Thurston - find out more at www.dylanthurston.com 

This is the first episode of Season 2 of City Between. In this episode we discuss the 1993 film Age of Innocence by Martin Scorsese. Bruce and Sam talk about the 1870s in New York, elite New Yorkers, interior decorating, Edith Wharton, Edith’s hatred of Brownstones, old Dutch farmhouses, Roman Punch, Daniel Day Lewis, Troy, Hoboken Terminal, Washington Irving, Powell and Pressburger, Wes Anderson, the opera, Winona Ryder, Thelma Schoonmaker, romance, Black Narcissus, and more! 

In the new season of the City Between Podcast we use film to explore the unexpected and interesting corners of New York history and culture. Come join us as we dive deep on the what the films set in and about New York can tell us about its fascinating and endless revealing history and culture.

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Theme music by Dylan Thurston. Find out more at www.dylanthurston.com.