New York Stories is an anthology film which was released in the USA in March 1989. New York Stories 1989 movie DVD cover. ... 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. ... Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (IPA: AmE: ; Ita: []) (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. ... Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, actress, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. ... For other persons named Richard Price, see Richard Price (disambiguation). ... Mae Questel (September 13, 1908 - January 4, 1998) was an American actress and voice artist. ... Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow on February 9, 1945) is an American actress. ... McComb with husband James Van Der Beek Heather McComb (born March 2, 1977 in Barnegat, New Jersey ) is an American actress. ... Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946), is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. ... Giancarlo Giannini (born August 1, 1942, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy) is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor and dubber. ... Don Novello as Father Guido Sarducci Don Novello (born January 1, 1943, Lorain, Ohio) is an American, writer, film director, producer, actor and comedian. ... Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, best known for her role as Brenda Morgenstern on Rhoda in the 1970s, as an actress in several Woody Allen-directed films, and for providing the voice of Marge Simpson on the animated television show The... Nicholas King Nolte born February 8, 1941 is a Oscar-nominated American actor, model, and producer. ... Rosanna Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, film director, and film producer. ... Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor and film director. ... Jesse Borrego (born August 1, 1962) is an Mexican-American actor. ... Kid Creole and the Coconuts are an American band created and led by August Darnell. ... Carmine Coppola Carmine Coppola (born June 11, 1910 in New York City, died April 26, 1991 in Northridge, CA) was a composer, editor, musical director, and songwriter. ... Sven Nykvist (born 3 December 1922 in Moheda, Kronobergs län, Sweden) is a Swedish cinematographer known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. ... Vittorio Storaro (born 24 June 1940 in Rome, Italy) is a Italian cinematographer. ... Néstor Almendros (born October 30, 1930 – March 4, 1992) was a Spanish cinematographer. ... Thelma Schoonmaker (born January 3, 1940) is an American Academy Award-winning film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over thirty-five years. ... Touchstone Pictures (also known as Touchstone Films in its early years) is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... An anthology film or omnibus film or portmanteau film is a film consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme, premise, or brief interlocking event (often a turning point). ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ...

The film consists of three shorts with the central theme being New York City. The first short is Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Richard Price. The second is Life Without Zoe, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola. The last segment is Oedipus Wrecks, directed and written by Woody Allen. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (IPA: AmE: ; Ita: []) (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. ... For other persons named Richard Price, see Richard Price (disambiguation). ... Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, actress, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. ... 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. ...

The reviews were generally positive for Life Lessons and Oedipus Wrecks, but generally negative for Life Without Zoe [1]. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post said of Coppola's segment, "it's by far the director's worst work yet." [2] The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ...

Oedipus Wrecks includes Adrien Brody and 7-year-old Kirsten Dunst in their first film roles. The film also features Larry David as the club owner who explains to Allen that his mother is missing. And it coincidentally features both Mae Questel and Julie Kavner, who voiced perhaps the most significant female cartoon characters of the 20th century, although generations apart. Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Kirsten[1] Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, known for her roles in Interview with the Vampire (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, and Bring It On, as well as for her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the... Lawrence Gene Larry David (born July 2, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an Emmy-winning actor, writer, comedian, producer and film director. ... Mae Questel (September 13, 1908 - January 4, 1998) was an American actress and voice artist. ... Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, best known for her role as Brenda Morgenstern on Rhoda in the 1970s, as an actress in several Woody Allen-directed films, and for providing the voice of Marge Simpson on the animated television show The...

Plot

In Life Lessons, written by Richard Price, Nick Nolte plays Lionel Dobie, an acclaimed abstract painter who is unable to paint before a major gallery exhibition of his new work, and Rosanna Arquette is Paulette, his apprentice/assistant and former lover. Lionel is still infatuated with her, but Paulette wants only his tutelage, which makes things difficult since they live in the same studio-loft, where most of the action in the movie takes place. While Lionel procrastinates, unable to complete the paintings that are scheduled for the upcoming solo exhibition of his, Paulette dates other people, including a comedian played by Steve Buscemi and a painter played by Jesse Borrego. For other persons named Richard Price, see Richard Price (disambiguation). ... Nicholas King Nolte born February 8, 1941 is a Oscar-nominated American actor, model, and producer. ... Rosanna Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, film director, and film producer. ... Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor and film director. ... Jesse Borrego (born August 1, 1962) is an Mexican-American actor. ...

These deliberate provocations on Paulette's part causes Lionel to get insanely jealous—and fuels his creativity. Both Lionel and Paulette, it becomes clear, have been using each other: Lionel using her sexually, Paulette using him as a means of entree to the higher spheres of the New York social and art scene. But now that their relationship is no longer sexual, Paulette wants to leave the mess that has become her life and move back in with her parents. Lionel, however, convinces her to stay because New York is where a painter needs to be, even though it is unclear whether Paulette is even a particularly good painter. She tries to get his honest opinion of her work and he says it has potential, but she is unsure if he is just leading her on so that she will stay with him. Throughout this turmoil in their relationship, Lionel paints as never before, his "painter's block" broken wide open. Eventually, she leaves when she has had enough, but not before Lionel is on his way to completing all the paintings he needs for his exhibit.

As he is completing the final piece, Lionel suddenly realizes that he needs the emotional turmoil of his destructive relationships in order to fuel his art—without the one, he can't produce the other. In the last scene, while at the art exhibit, where his new work is declared to be masterful, Lionel meets another attractive young woman who is a struggling painter—by the end of the gallery opening, he has convinced her to become his assistant, and potentially his lover, beginning the cycle anew.

Life Without Zoe is about an heiress Zoe (Heather McComb) helping to return to an Arab queen a valuable piece of jewelry that was given to her father (Giancarlo Giannini). At the same time she spends time trying to reunite her divorced mother, a photographer (Talia Shire), and father, a flutist. The lush cinematography and sumptuous sets and art direction are the main features of this film, which presents a fairy-tale New York where even the homeless people are characters. McComb with husband James Van Der Beek Heather McComb (born March 2, 1977 in Barnegat, New Jersey ) is an American actress. ... Giancarlo Giannini (born August 1, 1942, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy) is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor and dubber. ... Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946), is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. ...

Oedipus Wrecks is about a New York lawyer Sheldon (Woody Allen), who has problems with his overly critical Jewish mother (Mae Questel). He takes his fiancé, Lisa (Mia Farrow), to meet his mother and she disapproves. The three of them as well as Lisa's children from a previous marriage try to get to know each other better by going to a magic show. At the magic show, his mother is invited to be a part of the act. She is put in a box that has swords stuck through it and she disappears like she is supposed to, but then she never reappears. This turns out to be great for Sheldon because, with her out of his life, he can finally relax. But soon his mother reappears in the sky over New York City. Mae Questel (September 13, 1908 - January 4, 1998) was an American actress and voice artist. ... Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow on February 9, 1945) is an American actress. ...

She annoys Sheldon and Lisa by constantly talking to strangers about embarrassing moments. This puts a strain on his relationship with Lisa and she separates from him. Sheldon is convinced by his psychiatrist to see a psychic, Treva (Julie Kavner), to try to get his mother back to reality. Treva's experiments don't work but Sheldon falls for her because she is very similar to his mother (see Oedipus complex). When he introduces Treva to his mother, she finally approves of his girlfriend, and decides to come back to Earth. Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). ... Psychic is a term relating to or denoting paranormal extra-sensory abilities or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by known natural laws, since they transcend the confines of our current understanding of what a human being is capable of. ... Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, best known for her role as Brenda Morgenstern on Rhoda in the 1970s, as an actress in several Woody Allen-directed films, and for providing the voice of Marge Simpson on the animated television show The... The Oedipus complex in Freudian psychoanalysis refers to a stage of psychosexual development in childhood where children of both sexes regard their father as an adversary and competitor for the exclusive love of their mother. ...

Short films gallery

Scorsese's Life Lessons Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

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External links

• New York Stories at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Stories Blog - The stories of everyday New York City.