DeNiro Filming in Clinton Hill
We just got word that Robert Deniro’s latest flick, an insider take on the CIA called The Good Shepard, has been filming on the streets of Clinton Hill (Gates and Clinton to be exact). Did anyone happen to take any pictures? Wonder whether he’s using the sound stages at the Navy Yard too? The Good…
We just got word that Robert Deniro’s latest flick, an insider take on the CIA called The Good Shepard, has been filming on the streets of Clinton Hill (Gates and Clinton to be exact). Did anyone happen to take any pictures? Wonder whether he’s using the sound stages at the Navy Yard too?
The Good Shepard [IMDB]
I saw a film crew shooting next to the park in Fort Greene last thursday around 7pm. They were shooting a scene in which one black guy was on his knees on the sidewalk with his hands behind his head, while another guy was doing something with a hammer as a weapon.
I thought, wow: an all-white film crew with those guys acting out that scene (which was some sort of criminal scene in which a black guy was getting arrested or attacked) . . . it’s like a micrososm.
Didn’t they see the irony in it? I walked away wondering if film crews with scripts like that shooting scenes like that were merely reflecting the issues they were acting out, or (more likely, in my opinion) exacerbating them.
I have no idea if that crew had anything to do with the Deniro film.
There is no true CH/FG Block Association. If there is, I’m sure they couldn’t negotiate tying their own shoes.
Hey , Brownstoner, you meant Robert DeNiro, right? Based on your laid back lapses of late–“Deniro” and “Pullitzer”, it sounds like you’re having a good time out there in CT. Enjoy!
Regarding the city- streets- as film sets question: based on 23 years of living in Brooklyn Heights–one big, ongoing film set, particularly Joralemon St. (still cobblestoned; the site of many “vintage” Woody Allen films), Garden Place (too many to innumerate) and, of course, Columbia Heights, we’re approaching Bollywood here. But never, ever, has any film crew here not paid the street or community a “user’s” fee–usually $1,000 plus, depending on time spent,-used for planting trees, etc. The community block association is the group that usually negotiates: are you sure the Clinton Hill/Ft. Greene association isn’t getting a donation? If not: ask!
What a bunch of whiners. Has anyone’s car been towed? Has anyone not had enough notice of this? Some people will find anything to bitch and moan about on this blog. Jeez.
right, jobs for young hip gaffers who live in manhattan
why on earth is this a good thing??? the city is a place for people to LIVE, not a film set. if people want to film in Clinton Hill they should be required to pay the community, not city hall. and it disrupts a lot more than just parking and traffic. the amount of money in tv and film makes me sick, do the communities they film in ever see a cent?
No – the issue is that you don’t like your free parking space temporarily taken up by an enterprise that is key to the city’s economy and provides much needed jobs and tax revenue. Think about the community!
Cars towed to accomodate filming are not charged a towing fee.
will the anti-car contingent give it a rest? this is not about whether owning a car is good for the environment or not..
what if the same filmers blocked off your entire block and you couldn’t go into your house or apt and you had no idea until you got home that evening because they only put up the signs at noon while you were at work?
that, my friends, is THE ISSUE!