Between the elaborate plots on TV (we’re officially Lost) and the schlep to Kips Bay (which may as well be Kappa Gamma cinema), the movie experience has lost some of its charm.

Who has time for all that watching and thinking? We’ll just wait for the book version.

And here it is. Seeing as the greatest films ever (from Taxi Driver to Annie Hall) were made in Manhattan, someone came up with the good idea to put all NYC-based movies into one comprehensive tome, edited by James Sanders and called Scenes from the City: Filmmaking in New York, 1966-2006. No need to Netflix AFI’s top 100 — instead, roam the city streets with Kazan or Hitchcock as your guide.

Flip through the pages for everything from Monroe’s iconic subway grate stance to quotes from Spike Lee while on set. Along with never-before-seen photographs taken on location throughout the five boroughs, there’s commentary from the likes of Sidney Lumet, Francis Ford Coppola, and Oliver Stone. It even includes notes from the king of the Mean Streets, Scorsese himself, and a personal essay from Nora Ephron.

It’s a lively, fetching, and addictive read.

Bet they remake it as a movie.

Available online at amazon.com.