I did watch The Anderson Tapes last night. Most interesting, what I'd remembered and what I'd forgotten. It's definitely fun, even while the whole approach re the "new" surveillance technology then is amusingly dated. But I'd forgotten it was a Sidney Lumet film, so the direction and especially some of the NYC footage is fine.
There's a great shot that begins looking west across Times Square at the Howard Johnson's -- with a large "Burlesque" sign above it, and a "1776" sign up high just down the street -- then it pans around to looking east on 45th or 46th St., whichever it is. But every location shot takes me right back to when I first began visiting NYC, in literally that year (1970, when they were filming). The whole look and feel is of a NYC that is largely gone.
