“The whole dimension of everyday life with its infinitesimal movements and its multitude of transitory actions could be disclosed nowhere but on the screen.” -Siegfried Kracauer It’s often said that film is dead. No great (or even good) movies are made anymore. It’s all just comic book movies and sequels and blah blah blah. This is true enough. It’s also often said that decades are indistinct now. That 2009 and 2019 don’t really look or feel different, in the way that 1969 and 1979 did. The 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s all had a distinct quality to them—if you hear a song, watch a movie, or see a photograph from one of those decades, you’ll probably know right away which decade it is. But good luck doing that with the 2000s or 2010s. Same with the 2020s. Decades now don’t look or feel like anything special.
Good Time (2017) captured NYC as a place. Heavens Knows What (2014) as well. Can't think of anything else. Maybe some of those Boston movies lol