New York, New York

Name: New York, New York
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Released: June 21, 1977
Duration: 155 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Barry Primus, Dick Miller, George Memmoli, Georgie Auld, Leonard Gaines

1977

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United Artists | Release Date: June 21, 1977 | PG

Starring: Barry Primus, Dick Miller, George Memmoli, Georgie Auld, Leonard Gaines, Lionel Stander, Liza Minnelli, Mary Kay Place, Murray Moston, Robert De Niro

Summary: An egotistical saxophonist and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long, up-hill climb.

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genre(s): Drama, Music, Musical

Rating: PG

Runtime: 155 min

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Superbly scored, beautifully designed by Boris Leven to highlight the genre's artificiality, and performed to perfection. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

New York, New York, like most Martin Scorsese films, is about the trials and glories of making art. Read full review

Empire Damon Wise

More than a fascinating misfire, it’s a rare and telling glimpse into a legendary filmmaker’s fiercely guarded soul. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A visually fascinating rumination on the genre. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

In a final burst from Old Hollywood, Minnelli tears into the title song and it’s a wowser. Read full review

Vincent Canby

It's not that the movie runs out of steam long before it has gone on for two hours and 33 minutes, but that we have figured it out and become increasingly dumbfounded. Read full review

Christopher Porterfield

If this movie were a big-band arrangement, it would be a duet for a sax man and a girl singer, but with the soloists in a different key from the band. Read full review

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amheretojudge

Aug 29, 2019

The mixing of genre isn't confusing, it's just not palpable for either of the soundtrack.

New York, New York Scorsese's take on the musical genre is so Scorsese that I find it amusing at first rather than impressed. For almost three hours, each frame, characters and elements are yellingThe mixing of genre isn't confusing, it's just not palpable for either of the soundtrack.

New York, New York

Scorsese's take on the musical genre is so Scorsese that I find it amusing at first rather than impressed. For almost three hours, each frame, characters and elements are yelling proudly that they are in the director Martin Scorsese's film. Yet, with his signature method and skillful techniques, this is a troubling and unsettling film. In a way, it is orchestrated to be. But then it is also orchestrated to be a delightfully eye opening adventure. This is how he treats this love story as. An adventure. Thrilling. Conning his way out, Jimmy Doyle played Robert De Niro is told to be up front on the stage as the manager who controls the energy of the room.

He holds an incredible amount of energy in him, and is bouncing across the frame like an energy ball ready to rock, roll and burst. And if he is holding that impressively attracting part of the argument. Francine Evans played by Liza Minnelli gets a better deal. Whatever Jimmy is doing to himself, others and the film, it is affecting majorly to her just like an audience. The only difference is that she gets to speak up.

Which then creates this intensely throbbing and stereotypical couple's fight keeping us at the end of our seats, satisfied. To pack a gusto, in his work, Scorsese has embedded issues like personally or physically unstable and professionally vulnerable situations to checkmate his characters as much as he can. And it works. The only thing that we forget in that moment, is that it is a musical. And every now and then, it has to groove, either with a sad air in the room or a celebratory champagne in the hand. New York, New York is probably titled for the best, it couldn't have craved for more drama and got away with it, by any other name.… Expand

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NickTheCritick

Nov 4, 2021

This is a pretty unwatchable movie by Scorsese, it is a jazz movie but there a lot of jazz movies better than this. The characters are so badly written and even the mastery of Scorsese's directing couldn't compensate the terrible screenplay and acting in this movie with a DeNiro and LisaThis is a pretty unwatchable movie by Scorsese, it is a jazz movie but there a lot of jazz movies better than this. The characters are so badly written and even the mastery of Scorsese's directing couldn't compensate the terrible screenplay and acting in this movie with a DeNiro and Lisa Minelli at their worst.… Expand

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