Requiem For a Dream, 2000
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visit the film locations
New York: Flights: JFK Airport
Brighton Beach: Brighton Beach History
subway: 6 Avenue Express (B Orange) and Broadway Express (Q Yellow) serve Brighton Beach (only three stops from Coney island)
Coney Island: Coney Island Tourism
subway: 6 Avenue Express (D Orange); 6 Avenue Local (F Orange) and Broadway Express (N & Q, Yellow) all terminate at Coney Island
Trivia
See a cosier side of Coney Island in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall.
Requiem For A Dream location: Sara Goldfarb’s apartment: Brighton Sixth Street, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
Hubert Selby Jr (Last Exit to Brooklyn) novel about four people and their addictions is turned into a intense, expressionist experience. The film was shot in director Darren Aronofsky’s neighbourhood of Coney Island and Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
The apartment of TV obsessed Sara Goldfarb (Oscar-nominated Ellen Burstyn) is 3152 Brighton Sixth Street at Ocean View, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn’s old seaside Russian community (next door to the apartment is the Winter Garden Russian restaurant, which you can glimpse in the movie).
Requiem For A Dream location: Sara Goldfarb’s apartment: Brighton Sixth Street, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
Brighton Sixth Street leads to the Boardwalk, which stretches west to famed resort Coney Island. Sara’s son, Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto), with his buddy Tyrone (Marlon Wayans), drags his mum’s TV set along the Coney Island Boardwalk, past the vast hulk of the old Thunderbolt rollercoaster, which has since been demolished (not the famous Cyclone, which is still going strong).
Requiem For A Dream location: wheeling the TV set: Coney Island Boardwalk, Coney Island, Brooklyn
Harry has a romantic dream of seeing Marion (Jennifer Connelly) at the end of Steeplechase Pier on the Boardwalk between West 16th and West 19th Streets.
Requiem For A Dream location: Harry's dream: Steeplechase Pier, Coney Island, Brooklyn
The odd red tower seen in the background of many of the scenes is the 262-foot Parachute Jump, built as a military training aid, and later converted to an amusement park ride in the old Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, opposite the Steeplechase Pier.
Requiem For A Dream location: Coney Island landmark: the Parachute Jump, Coney Island, Brooklyn
Although closed in 1968, it’s recently been restored as part of a massive regeneration of the area, and is now a protected landmark.
