For displaced, misplaced, and nostalgic ex-Bronxites
THE BRONX BOARD VIDEO STORE
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| These films have been selected for their connection with the Bronx. If your heritage has roots there, then these should be part of your video library.
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The Wanderers
Directed by Philip Kaufman (1979) List Price: Our Price: $16.99 You Save: $3.00 (15%) VHS Video - Rated R Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. |
The movie of Richard Price's first novel that's become a cult classic, starring Ken Wahl and Karen Allen. Filmed at several familiar Bronx locations, including Fordham Road, Lydig Avenue, Webster Avenue, Bronx Park, Columbus High School, and more.
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Bloodbrothers
Directed by Robert Mulligan (1978) List Price: Our Price: $16.99 You Save: $3.00 (15%) VHS Video - Rated R Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. |
Richard Price's tale of the conflict between a young man (Richard Gere) and his working-class father (Tony LoBianco) that takes place in the Bronx of the sixties. Paul Sorvino and Kenneth Macmillan play supporting roles.
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A Bronx Tale
Directed by Robert De Niro (1993) List Price: Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $2.00 (13%) VHS Video - Rated R Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. |
Bronx-bred Chazz Palminteri wrote the script for this excellent story of an Italian American boy (Lillo Brancato) who grows up in the 1960s caught between the strong influences of his blue-collar, straight-arrow father (Robert De Niro) and a Mafia chieftain (Palminteri) who is his all-purpose mentor. Look for Joe Pesci in an uncredited role.
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A Bronx Tale
Directed by Robert De Niro (1993) List Price: Our Price: $16.99 You Save: $2.99 (15%) DVD - Rated R Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. |
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New York The Way It Was - The Old Neighborhood
Documentary (1995) List Price: Our Price: $16.99 You Save: $3.00 (15%) VHS Video - Not Rated Availability: Usually ships within 2 - 3 days. |
A celebration of New York City neighborhoods, from the Germans of Yorkville, to the Italians and Irish of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, to the Jewish and Latino experience and Harlem life. You'll revisit the struggles of the immigrant generation who believed they would make their children's lives better. You'll almost smell the familiar cooking in the family kitchen and recall the "characters" who made each block unique.
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Billy Bathgate
Directed by Robert Benton (1991) List Price: Our Price: $8.99 You Save: $1.00 (10%) VHS Video - Rated R Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours |
Dustin Hoffman stars in this excellent adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel about a young Bronx boy who hooks up with the notorious Dutch Schultz in the 1930s.
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Pride of the Yankees
Directed by Sam Wood (1942) List Price: Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.96 (13%) VHS Video - Not Rated Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours |
Gary Cooper was close to perfect in this Oscar-winning biography of Lou Gehrig. Also starring Walter Brennan, Babe Ruth, Bill Dickey, and Bob Meusel. Includes actual footage from games at Yankee Stadium.
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Five Corners
Directed by Tony Bill (1988) List Price: Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $2.00 (13%) VHS Video - Rated R Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours |
Written by John Patrick Shanley ("Moonstruck"), and starring Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, and John Turturro, this story takes place in the Bronx of 1964. A high school math teacher is struck down on his way to class by a red arrow smack in the middle of his back, and the neighborhood teens suspect a psychotic young man who has just returned to the block from prison. Although actually shot in Astoria, Queens, the film evokes many Bronx memories and references.
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Falling In Love Again
Directed by Steven Paul (1980) List Price: Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 (13%) VHS Video - Rated R Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours |
Starring Elliot Gould and Michelle Pfeiffer in one of her first screen roles. Gould flashes back to his halcyon youth in the Bronx and his courtship of a WASP princess. Not a great film, but worth it for the Bronx location shots and the young (ex-Brooklynite) Gould and radiant Pfeiffer.
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True Love
Directed by Nancy Savoca (1989) List Price: Our Price: $8.99 You Save: $1.00 (10%) VHS Video - Rated R Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours |
Pat D., a Bronx Board user, writes: "This is a little
independent film made circa 1988. It was directed by Nancy Savoca, and starred (pre-famous) Anabella Sciorra.
The story revolves around an Italian Wedding in the Bronx, and it was shot on location in the Van Nest area. It has everything - Bronxites, great shots of Morris Park Avenue,
Williamsbridge Road, etc. and references to places like Rhinelander Avenue. For people who left before the late 80's it could be a real treat."
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Marty
Directed by Delbert Mann (1955) List Price: Our Price: $16.99 You Save: $2.99 (15%) VHS Video - Not Rated Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours |
You'll find lots of Bronx scenery in this movie re-make of the 1953 television production about a shy Bronx butcher who finds love against all odds. Brilliant screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky. Academy Award Nominations: 8, including Best Supporting Actor--Joe Mantell, Best Supporting Actress--Betsy Blair. Academy Awards: 5, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor--Ernest Borgnine, Best Story and Screenplay.
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The Seven-Ups
Directed by Philip D'Antoni (1973) List Price: Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.99 (15%) VHS Video - Rated PG Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours |
THE FRENCH CONNECTION producer directed this unofficial sequel, with Roy Scheider scoring as a tough cop. Lots of action, and car chase is one of the best yet filmed. Shot in New York City, with several familiar Bronx locations, including DeWitt Clinton High School's athletic fields, Co-op City, and others.
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Awakenings
Directed by Penny Marshall (1990) List Price: Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $.96 (7%) VHS Video - Rated PG-13 Availability: Usually ships within 2-3 days |
Directed by Bronx born-and-raised Penny Marshall, this film is based on the true-life experiences of Dr. Oliver Sacks, who took a job at a Bronx hospital's chronic care ward in 1969 and discovered that his comatose patients still had life inside them. Robin Williams is superb as the doctor, and Robert De Niro is equally excellent as a patient who awakens from a thirty-year coma to deal with life as an adult for the first time. Also with Julie Kavner, Ann Meara, and Penelope Ann Miller. Look for scenes on Fordham Road, in the Botanical Gardens, and Eastchester Bay.
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Fort Apache, the Bronx
Directed by Daniel Petrie (1981) Our Price: $9.95 VHS Video - Rated R Availability: Usually ships within 2-3 days |
Starring Paul Newman, Ed Asner, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello and Pam Grier, this is a gritty story of a policeman's life in the blighted south Bronx of the seventies, in a precinct known as "Fort Apache". Critic Leonard Maltin says, "credible and exciting, with a fine star performance from Newman." Lots of familiar neighborhood footage; see if you recognize the streets under the el.
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Fort Apache, the Bronx
Directed by Daniel Petrie (1981) Our Price: $19.98 DVD - Rated R Availability: Usually ships within 2-3 days |
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