Manhattan - NEW 35MM PRINT August 31, 2007

(Woody Allen, USA, 1979, 35mm, 96 min)
Woody Allen finished his first decade of filmmaking with one of his greatest and most deliberately artistic films, an artistic love letter to his hometown, Manhattan. Allen's rhapsodic city-symphony is presented here in a new 35mm print that shows off its full black-and-white glory. Isaac Davis (Allen) is torn between two girlfriends: the very young and earnest Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), and indecisive pseudo-intellectual Mary Wilikie (Diane Keaton). During this time, Mary also has an on-off affair with Yale (Micahel Murphy, who had just played another philandering husband in AN UNMARRIED WOMAN). To complicate things further, Isaac quits his day job to write a novel, while trying to stop his ex-wife (Meryl Streep) from publishing a tell-all book of their marriage. The film's glorious all-Gershwin score, its breathtakingly elegant black-and-white widescreen cinematography by Gordon Willis (THE GODFATHER), its deeply shaded performances, and its witty, Oscar-nominated screenplay make it a modern masterpiece of cinema that must be experienced on the big screen!
"Materialized out of the void as the one truly great American film of the 70's." - Andrew Sarris, THE VILLAGE VOICE

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