Manhattan
by Woody Allen
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Actor: Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Michael Murphy, Woody AllenDirector: Woody Allen
Brand: ALLEN,WOODY
Producer: Charles H. Joffe
Producer: Rollins, Jack
Producer: Greenhut, Robert
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-07-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Manhattan
DVD Review: Not the best
Summary: 3 Stars
This was definitely not the best of Allen's movies in my opinion. As always, dialog and acting were superb. Movie was funny and witty. However I finished watching it asking myself (again - see "Vicky Christina Barselona") - so what happened, what's the point? Plus, although I really liked Tracey's character, I found the whole affair of a 42-year-old man dating and sleeping with a 17-year-old school-girl creepy and borderline repulsive.DVD Review: An Early Hint?
Summary: 3 Stars
Quite a few belly laughs and an excellent satire of pseudo-intellectual pretentiousness. Nonetheless, it was not pleasant seeing Woody playing a 42-year old man sleeping with a 17 year old girlfriend. And no one in the film sees anything wrong with it. I guess I'm not the first to notice that this film seemed to presage many odd things in his life.DVD Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
Manhattan's chief flaw is that large parts of it feel a bit too much like Annie Hall done over again in black and white; nevertheless, it looks gorgeous and the original parts (e.g. everything with Muriel Hemingway's character) make the film worth watching.
DVD Review: A Classic Piece of American Cinema
Summary: 5 Stars
Woody Allen's Manhattan is a classic piece of American cinema that is often overlooked and forgotten because it was overshadowed by the success of Allen's previous film Annie Hall. Manhattan is a darker examination of life in late 70's New York. The film focuses on the central issues of many of Allen's other films such as sexuality and monogamy, neurotic introspection, love and `the meaning of life before death.' Set to the backdrop of a nostalgic black and white film, Allen opens with the music of George Gershwin set to footage of Columbus Circle, Yankee Stadium, Central Park, Broadway, Times Square and everywhere else that life happens in New York. The story deals with a darker set of issues, relationships and personalities than Annie Hall does but is every bit (if not more) intriguing. Rather than following the course of one relationship from start to finish, Allen now focus on five people who are faced with decisions and opportunities to explore relationships within a circle that is, more often than not, unconventional. Allen has fallen in love with his closest friends' mistress behind his seventeen-year old girlfriends back. Allen's ex-wife, who has left him for another woman, has now written a tell-all-book about their marriage; a sub-plot clearly infused for the comedic aspect, but brilliantly done none-the-less! A professor, a Shakespearian student, a journalist and a writer compose the cast for a tale that are presented as neither right nor wrong, but instead indifferent. This film will not appeal to the mass audiences, nor does it offer the kind of closure, that Annie Hall did, but is a must for all fans of Allen or anyone interested in this unique period of time in New York. DVD Review: Great Movie. Great Price!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am converting my movie collection from VHS format to DVD. I purchased Manhattan, one of my favorite films. The price was right and the DVD arrived quicly. A great transaction.
Description of Manhattan
Nominated for two Academy Awards?(r)* in 1979 and considered "one of Allen's most enduring accomplishments" (Boxoffice), Manhattan is a wry, touching and finely rendered portrait of modern relationships against the backdrop of urban alienation. Sumptuously photographed in black and white (Allen's first film in that format) and accompanied by a magnificent Gershwin score, Woody Allen's aesthetic triumph is a "prismatic portrait of a time and a place that may be studied decades hence" (Time). 42-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job he hates, a seventeen-year-old girlfriend, Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), he doesn't love and a lesbian ex-wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), who's writing a tell-all book about their marriage and whom he'd like to strangle. But when he meets his best friend's sexy intellectual mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton), Isaac falls head over heels in lust! Leaving Tracy, bedding Mary and quitting his job are just the beginning of Isaac's quest for romance and fulfillment in a city where sex is as intimate as a handshakeandthe gateway to true love is a revolving door. *Supporting Actress (Hemingway); Original ScreenplayManhattan, 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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