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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792846109
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792846109
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 05, 2000
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 1939
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: March 14, 1979
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Woody Allen Diane Keaton Meryl Streep and Mariel Hemingway star in Woody Allen's extraordinary and funny film that explores the embattled life and loves of a successful New York comedy writer. The breathtaking cityscapes of Manhatten provide the ideal background for the lush music of George Gershwin. A joy for film lovers everywhere Manhatten is a comedy gem from a master of comedy. Year: 1979 Director: Woody Allen Starring: Woody Allen Diane Keaton Michael Murphy Mariel Hemingway Meryl Streep Anne ByrneSystem Requirements:Running Time: 96 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 027616851154 Manufacturer No: M110923
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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 elegant black-and-white, widescreen cinematography by Gordon Willis (best-known for shooting the Godfather movies); its deeply shaded performances; its witty screenplay that marked a new level in Allen's artistic maturity; and its catalog of Things that Make Life Worth Living. But Manhattan is also distinguished in the realm of home video as the first motion picture to be released only in a widescreen version. You wouldn't want to see it any other way. Allen's 'Rhapsody in Gray' concerns, as his own character puts it, 'people in Manhattan who are constantly creating these real, unnecessary, neurotic problems for themselves, because it keeps them from dealing with more unsolvable, terrifying problems about the universe.' It's a romantic comedy about infidelity and betrayal, the rules of love and friendship, young girls (a radiant and sweet Mariel Hemingway) and older men (Allen), innocence, and sophistication. (a favorite phrase is used to describe a piece of sculpture at the Guggenheim: 'It has a marvelous kind of negative capability.') The movie's themes can be summed up in two key lines: 'I can't believe you met somebody you like better than me,' and 'It's very important to have some kind of personal integrity.' OK, so they may not sound like such sparkling snatches of brilliant dialogue, but Manhattan puts those ideas across with such emotion that you feel an ache in your heart. --Jim Emerson
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Rating:  - Manhattan review
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Rating:  - Modern Cinematic Masterpiece
Woody Allen said in an Interview once that 'Manhattan', was never the film he intended to write, the end result turning out infact completely different to the intial vision he had, and that he was actually very surprised at the popularity and accolades it earned by audiences and critics alike. Yet this supposedly unintentional fluke, became the definitive 'Woody Allen' film to many, and a modern cinematic masterpiece that paid reverent hommage to Allen's home town of 'New York City'. A city which Allen's main character 'Issac', admits to 'romantacizing out of all proportion'. I admit it was partly Allen's films over the years that led to my fascination and long distance love affair with New York. A melting pot of artists, writers, intellectuals, Jazz, Gershwin, smokey bars and cosy restaurants, quirky bookshops and delis. And of course the highly strung Manhattan neurotic, never without their 'shrink', or analyst. It's all here in this 70's cinema classic. Woody Allen could not have captured the magic and poetry of his beloved city more sublimely; magnificently filmed in black and white 'Panavision', with an exquisite musical score, cinematography, and all round cast ensemble. Most of my favourite of Allen's films are his collaborations with Diane Keaton, they had such a wonderful chemistry.
The charm of Allen's films lie largley in his clever, witty, satirical and often sadonic observations of human nature, foibles and weaknesses. The fragility of life and fickleness of relationships. Allen's ... Read More
Rating: - THE ISLAND THE SPECTACULAR STAR ON THE BIG SCREEN; A THOUGHTFUL MEDITATION ON LIFE AND MORALITY UPON THE SMALL FLAT SCREEN
Warning:
This is 1979.
Writers use typewriters, and paper, with no digital memory.
Their only electromagnetic device is a Sony cassette recorder replacing the dictaphone of an earlier cinematic era. In fact the cassette deck is so extraordinary a tool at the time that it overflows the big screen, as does the bridge, as it does ten years later in The Thin Blue Line, in a dramatic, fascinating diagonal shot which overwhelms the material.
Warning:
This is 1979.
People were still influenced by early imprintings of Bogey and Bacall, and drinking and smoking tobacco cigarettes was still considered romantic by the older generation, as mocked in the first scene. Indoor smoking was not yet a crime in New York City.
Warning:
This is 1979.
People are not yet epidemically overweight.
A 42 year old man might conceivably however improbably have a seventeen year old girlfriend, with only a laughing reference to the police. In fact this is the most improbable (and repugnant) device of the film, which closes with the young girl counseling her elder, she the wiser now.
Warning:
This movie best seen upon the big screen for the awe-inspiring visuals backed by the Gershwin score. The dialogue and characters only echo the emptiness of the times, the "negative capabilities."
It is a love story for the island itself of its day, never to be so dramatically depicted again, never before since Kong scaled the Empire State, ... Read More
Rating: - The tonight movie starring MANHATTAN
Typically this Allen's movie don't have a plot.
Or is just hard to follow it :)
BUT THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOVIE ABOUT THE CITY.
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P.S. Highly recommended for first time NYC' visitors.
P.P.S. The City is the main actor in the movie. And he plays good...
Rating: - Woody Allen's Ode to Love and Life In New York City
Coming off the success of 1977's Annie Hall and the overlooked 1978's Interiors, Woody Allen was looking for a way to bridge the comedy of the former picture and the seriousness of his latter picture, he came out of the box in 1979 with this, Manhattan, possibly his best film.
Manhattan is the story of a man's loves and life in the Big Apple. Filmed in glorious black and white by Gordon WIllis, this is a robust, indelible piece of art work. Allen plays Isaac, a twice divorced 42 year-old man who's dating a 17 year-old girl with a lesbian ex-wife writing a tell-all book about their marriage. Along the way he meets a women whom he beoomes attracted to and begins a relationship with her.
The story is not only about him but, about the city itself, almost a throwback to the good ole days of New York City where Gershwin music was the slice of life and a good picture cost you 75 cents.
There's no denying the power this movie had on me. From the opening shots of Manhattan set to Gershwin's music, to the closing shots of Isaac, I definitely loved this movie.
Must See.
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