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Sep 28 '01
Pros: Cinematography, acting, Gershwin music
Cons: None
Summary: Most people have a love/hate relationship with their hometown. Only Woody Allen has put his relationship on film and set it to the music of George Gershwin. In his 1979 release "Manhattan," Allen stars as Isaac Davis, a writer who's watching his life...
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Jan 27 '05
Pros: great cinematography, performances, ethical issues and use of New York as a character
Cons: black and white, static camera work, talky, basically for Allen fans not Nascar people
Summary: Conventional wisdom has it that Manhattan (1979) is Woody Allen's ode to New York, though some think it's just a slick attempt to reprise the Oscar he got for Annie Hall (1977). After re-renting this film, I have a theory of my own - one as bizarre as ...
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Jan 03 '03
Pros: Manhattan is Allen's greatest film.
Cons: It doesn't get better than this!
Summary: At the 2002 Oscars, Woody Allen made a rare appearance in front of the academy to present a short film in tribute to New York, the city where he has spent all of his life, and made all his movies. The film was made up of clips from a number of different...
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Dec 01 '01
Pros: Beautifully shot, funny, poignant
Cons: Somewhat hard to follow
Summary: I loved this movie. From the moment it started, in a black and white montage of scenes from New York accompanied by Gershwin's "Rhaphsody in Blue," I loved it. The movie just kept getting better, through the twisted love story to the funny parts to the...
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Sep 10 '00
Pros: Poignant, bitter-sweet, razor sharp comedy.
Cons: None unless you bring your Allen prejudice with you.
Summary: There's poetry in Manhattan, the poetry of opposites. As Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue plays over lusciously composed black and white images of an idyllic Manhattan, we see picture postcards shots of Broadway, 42nd Street, Central Park, the Skyline and...
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Apr 26 '00
Pros: Archives 1970s values into a funny film
Cons: Allen haters won't like it, but will still find it artistic
Summary: Director Woody Allen’s masterful ode to New York, Manhattan, is more than just a film, it is an expression of the morality of post-Vietnam America. In fact, Allen’s film sings entirely of late 1970s culture and thought. In examination of the film, the...
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Jan 16 '00
Pros: A beautiful love poem to New York City, and a very funny film to boot.
Cons: none really.
Summary: Once again rejecting conventional, box-office success, Allen chose to shoot his love poem to New York, Manhattan, in glorious black and white. Drawing on the vast talent of cinematographer Gordon Willis (The Godfather, Pennies from ...
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Sep 23 '99
Pros: script, cast, direction
Cons: talky
Summary: "Manhattan" is a play with good cinematography. That is, there's no action scenes, but there is a great deal of dialogue, George Gerschwin music, and shots of New York City. The Gershwin soundtrack is actually intrusive, but the script is...
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Woody Allen finished his first decade of filmmaking the 1970s with one of his greatest and most deliberately artistic films the love song to his home ...
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Nominated for two Academy Awards(R) in 1979, and considered "one of Allen's most enduring accomplishments" (Boxoffice), "Manhattan" is a wry, touching...
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Nominated for two Academy Awards in 1979, and considered one of Allen s most enduring accomplishments (Boxoffice), Manhattan is a wry, touching and fi...
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Manhattan, Woody Allen's follow-up to Oscar-winning Annie Hall, is a film of many distinctions: its glorious all-Gershwin score, its breathtakingly el...
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