Production
Lumet made the decision to shoot Before the Devil Knows You're Dead on high definition video after experimenting with the format on the television series 100 Centre Street. At a press conference at the 2007 New York Film Festival, Lumet called shooting on film "a pain in the ass," and predicted that as soon as distributors and exhibitors could agree on a digital projection format, photographic film would be rendered obsolete. Filming of the primary robbery scene in the film took place at the Bay Terrace Shopping Center in Bayside, Queens, New York.
The scenes where Andy Hanson (Philip Seymour Hoffman) uses heroin were filmed in an apartment on a high floor on the southwest corner of Trump World Tower. This can be deduced from the location and angle of the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building seen through the window.
The scenes where Hank Hanson (Ethan Hawke) stops at a gas station to change in the restroom and uses a payphone to call Andy (Hoffman) were filmed on South Broadway in Yonkers, New York.
The climactic scene of the film where Andy Hanson (Hoffman) is shot was filmed on West 45th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.
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