The 1979 film plays this Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. as part of the "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" series.
It was fun to see it again on a big screen in a nearly sold-out theater. (We last saw it in Tompkins Square Park in 2011.)
There was some snickering in the audience during scenes that don't play as well 47 years later... including those menacing Punks in Union Square in denim overalls and striped rugby shirts who looked like they were on their way to spike the punch at a Sadie Hawkins dance.
Can you dig it?
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Lin Manuel Miranda is making a Broadway play about The Warriors.
Metrograph audiences are way too snickery.
It’s also playing at Film Forum on September 1st as part of a series of movies that involve the NYC transit system, in honor of the Transit Museum’s 50th (I think) anniversary. “The French Connection” tonight but it is sold out.
Ah! Good to know! Thanks...
I'm in that movie. I'm one of the Gramercy Riffs who kills Luther on the beach at Coney Island. At he time, we would have called you crazy if you told us this film would become a cult classic. We all thought it was the dumbest piece of shit ever - a bunch of Black guys beating somebody down with hockey sticks? Yeah, right!
One of the best movies ever!
When gangs weren't that scary to what it is today 😬.
I don’t think they used real ganstas in the film.
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