Here’s the newly released trailer for Begin Again, about an ex-record exec (Mark Ruffalo) who takes up with a singer-songwriter (Keira Knightley) who’s just been dumped by her rocker boyfriend (Adam Levine). After he gets canned, Ruffalo’s character (who lives above Congee Village) does what any fictional schmuck would do: he ties one on at 7B, aka Vazac’s. Which makes this rom-com (premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival this month and going wide in July) the latest in a long line of movies and tv shows to have filmed at the East Village corner spot.
The Godfather Part II, Crocodile Dundee, Scarface, Serpico, The Color of Money, Rent, Sex and the City, The Verdict, Five Corners, Angel Heart, Smash, Person of Interest, Law & Order, and any number of L&O knockoffs: someday we’ll put together a supercut. In the meantime, peep the trailer.
