Manhattan
original movie poster
Directed by	Woody Allen
Produced by	Charles H. Joffe
Written by	Woody Allen Marshall Brickman
Starring	Woody Allen Diane Keaton Michael Murphy Mariel Hemingway Meryl Streep Anne Byrne
Cinematography	Gordon Willis
Editing by	Susan E. Morse
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	March 14, 1979 (USA)
Running time	96 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

Manhattan is a 1979 romantic comedy film. The movie was written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, and directed by Allen, as with their previous successful collaboration, Annie Hall. Manhattan is filmed in black and white. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Mariel Hemingway) and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film. Image File history File links Manhattan-poster01. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Charles H Joffe is an American film producer. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Marshall Brickman (born August 25, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. ... For other people of the same name, see Michael Murphy Michael Murphy (born May 5, 1938) is an American character actor. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Mary Louise Streep, mostly known as Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, two-time SAG-winning, Grammy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. ... Gordon Willis (born May 28, 1931 in Queens, New York) is a highly respected Hollywood cinematographer best known for his work on the The Godfather series and on some of Woody Allens most popular films. ... The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s). ... is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... // Events March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. ... Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Marshall Brickman (born August 25, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. ... Annie Hall is a 1977 romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. ... Black-and-white is a broad adjectival term used to describe a number of monochrome forms of visual arts. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... // The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...

The film is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films and was #46 on American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Laughs". This film is number 63 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies." In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ... Library of Congress, Jefferson building The Library of Congress is one of four official national libraries of the United States (along with the National Library of Medicine, National Agricultural Library, and National Archives and Records Administration). ... The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...

Synopsis

The film opens with a montage of images of Manhattan accompanied by George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Isaac Davis, played by Allen, is introduced as a man who loves New York City. Film editing is the connecting of one or more shots to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an entire movie. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Cover of the original sheet music of the two piano version of Rhapsody in Blue. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Isaac is a twice-divorced 42 year old comedy writer dealing with the women in his life. He is dating Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a 17-year old high school girl. However, he falls in love with his best friend's mistress, Mary Wilkie (Diane Keaton). Also, his lesbian ex-wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), is writing a tell-all book about their relationship. Over the course of the movie, Isaac tries to figure out who he ultimately wants to be with: Tracy or Mary? This article contains a trivia section. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. ... Mary Louise Streep, mostly known as Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, two-time SAG-winning, Grammy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. ...

Filming locations

The iconic bridge shot

The scene in which Isaac romances Mary at an art exhibition opening was filmed at the Museum of Modern Art. The sculpture garden and Pablo Picasso's She-Goat are featured.^[1] The iconic shot of Diane Keaton and Woody Allen on the bench was shot just south of the 59th Street Bridge by the East River. The film opens at Elaine's, then a famous hot-spot for New York's literati, and later Woody Allen brings his "son" to the Russian Tea Room. Image File history File links Woody_allen_manhattan. ... Image File history File links Woody_allen_manhattan. ... View across garden, in new MoMA building by Yoshio Taniguchi. ... Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. ... Aerial view of the Queensborough Bridge and Midtown Manhattan, New York The Queensboro Bridge is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City. ... New York City waterways: 1. ... Sydney Pollack and Dustin Hoffman at the Russian Tea Room in Tootsie The Russian Tea Room between the Metropolitan and Carnegie Hall Towers The Russian Tea Room is a restaurant in New York City, located at 150 West 57th Street between Carnegie Hall Tower and Metropolitan Tower. ...

Style

In an interview with London-based arts critic John Fordham, Allen said that Manhattan was "like a mixture of what I was trying to do with Annie Hall and Interiors."^[2] He told Time that his film deals with the problem of people trying to live a decent existence in an essential junk-obsessed contemporary culture without selling out, admitting that he himself could conceive of giving away all of "[his] possessions to charity and living in much more modest circumstances," continuing, "I've rationalized my way out of it so far, but I could conceive of doing it."^[3] Annie Hall is a 1977 romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. ... Interiors is a 1978 film written and directed by Woody Allen. ... Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. ...

The film is shot in black and white by cinematographer Gordon Willis, who had also filmed The Godfather and its sequels, as well as Allen's Annie Hall. According to an interview with Marc Didden in the New Musical Express from the time of the film's release, Allen decided to shoot his film in black and white Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ... Gordon Willis (born May 28, 1931 in Queens, New York) is a highly respected Hollywood cinematographer best known for his work on the The Godfather series and on some of Woody Allens most popular films. ... The Godfather is a 1972 crime film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with screenplay by Puzo and Coppola. ... The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a weekly magazine about popular music published in the UK. It is unlike many other popular music magazines due to its intended focus on guitar-based music and indie rock bands, instead of mainstream pop acts. ...

"because that's how I remember it from when I was small. Maybe it's a reminiscence from old photographs, films, books and all that. But that's how I remember New York. I always heard Gershwin music with it, too. In Manhattan I really think that we — that's me and cinematographer Gordon Willis — succeeded in showing the city. When you see it there on that big screen it's really decadent."^{[citation needed]}

The film is notable for its extensive use of music composed by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Ira Gershwin (6 December 1896 – 17 August 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. ...

The film was shot in the Cinemascope aspect ratio, 2.35:1. Allen wanted to preserve Willis's compositions, and insisted that the aspect ratio be preserved when the film was released on video (an unusual request in a time when widescreen films were normally panned and scanned for TV and video release). As a result, all copies of the movie on video were letterboxed. Allen even sued a Swiss TV channel that broadcast a pan and scan version of the movie.^{[citation needed]} However, a pan and scan version has since been aired on UK television.^{[citation needed]} A Fox logo used to promote the CinemaScope process. ... The aspect ratio of an image is its displayed width divided by its height (usually expressed as x:y or x×y, with the joining colon or multiplication symbol articulated as the preposition by or sometimes to). Currently, the most popular standard ratios are the anamorphic (2. ... 2. ... Composition is the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work. ... A 2. ... A 2. ... A 2. ...

Reception

Manhattan opened in North America on April 25, 1979 in 29 theatres. It grossed $485,734 ($16,749 per screen) in its opening weekend, and earned a robust $39,946,780 in its entire run.^[4] In 2007 dollars, this would be over $110 million.

The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Mariel Hemingway) and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... // The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... This page lists the winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language and Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film for each year, in addition to the retired earlier versions of those awards. ...

The film is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films and was #46 on American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Laughs". This film is number 63 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies." In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the U.S. cable network. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. ... The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...

Auteurist film critic Andrew Sarris notably praised Manhattan as "the only truly great American movie of the 1970s."^[5] Time film critic Frank Rich wrote at the time that Allen's film is "tightly constructed, clearly focused intellectually, it is a prismatic portrait of a time and place that may be studied decades hence to see what kind of people we were."^{[citation needed]} The auteur theory is the theory that a film (or a body of work) by a director (or, rarely, a producer) reflects the personal vision and preoccupations of that director, as if he or she were the works primary author (auteur). ... Andrew Sarris is a film critic and a leading proponent of the Auteur theory of criticism. ... American cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. ...

Recently, J. Hoberman wrote in the Village Voice, "The New York City that Woody so tediously defended in Annie Hall was in crisis. And so he imagined an improved version. More than that, he cast this shining city in the form of those movies that he might have seen as a child in Coney Island—freeing the visions that he sensed to be locked up in the silver screen."^[6] J. Hoberman (Jim Hoberman) is the lead film critic for The Village Voice. ... The Village Voice is a New York City-based weekly newspaper featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ... Annie Hall is a 1977 romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. ...

In Popular Culture

• Parodied on the Australian movie show The Bazura Project, Episode 1.09, as part of the episode's opening sequence.
• In the Simpsons episode Rome-old and Julie-eh, during a montage establishing the romance between Grandpa and Selma, they're seen in an homage to the film's 59th St. Bridge money-shot, though it's quickly revealed they're really just on a bench looking at the film's poster.

The Bazura Project is a television show broadcast on Channel 31 Melbourne starring Lee Zachariah and Shannon Marinko. ... The Simpsons. ... Rome-old and Juli-eh is an episode of The Simpsons eighteenth season, which originally aired on March 11, 2007. ...

References

1. ^ Made in NY, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA, 2006.
2. ^ "Manhattan." BestPrices.com. 15 November 2006.
3. ^ "An Interview with Woody", Time, April 30, 1979.
4. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=manhattan.htm
5. ^ moviediva. "Manhattan." moviediva. January 2003. 15 November 2006.
6. ^ Hoberman, J.. "Defending Manhattan", Village Voice, July 10, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-11. 

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