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New York, New York (Special Edition)

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This product was delivered on time and the seller was great. As far as the movie is concerned, although it is a Scorsese film, remember, it's early Scorsese. There are bloopers left, right and centre and continuation is off in some scenes. The sax jazz music gets a bit tedious and unfortunately they bring in the songs and productions with Liza Minelli too late in the film. There are some good scenes and some good music but it definitely is not polished like later blu-rays such as the newest film version of Phantom of the Opera or The Producers.

This movie is a trully underated musical. The poor script and imprudent editing are its only flaws. But the performances, the direction, the story,the costuming, the art direction, cinematography and the music make those flaws virtually unoticable. Im sure if this had been the success it should have been back in 1977, Im sure the film, the art direction, the cinematography, the costuming, Scorcese, and above all else Minelli(who never looked or sounded better)and Deniro would all have gotten Oscar nods. The one that I truly cant beleive is that the title song didnt win the oscar. It has become such a standard it should have one. Overall a great film trully an underated classic.

Liza Minelli is great in this film that is a manifesto for New York jazz and Broadway musicals. She has a deep and mysterious voice and her songs are highly poetic. Robert de Niro is an aggressive lover and a very self-centered musician, music-doubled by Auld. In fact he looks like a remake of Fred Astaire in his courting techniques, but without the light humorous dimension of Fred and with a deeply egotistic and melo-dramatic dimension. But the film goes beyond this and shows how two artists could work together if they accepted to step beyond the small difficulties of life. Small is a way of speaking since it is a pregnancy that does not come at the right moment, breaking up a band and endangering a career. Robert de Niro just rejects the problem and saves his own career by dumping the wife he had had so much difficulty to conquer. Liza Minelli recaptures her own career after this event with her talent and also with her easy-going friendliness. The film becomes sad and has no Happy Ending because the two hesitate to recapture the past and meet again for reasons that are not really made explicit in the film, but that we can imagine to be the fear to go back to a cannibalistic relation on the side of Liza Minelli and the fear to get penned up into limitations on the side of Robert de Niro, in spite of the attraction his own son exerts on him. This shows how difficult it is for two great artists to live together and to work together, especially when one is tyrannical and the other diplomatic. Napoleon meets Queen Victoria in some way. But the film is too much centered on the music and not explicit enough on the love affair and sentimental experience if not experiment the two go through. It makes it a litle bit cold and unsensitive. We have to imagine too much about the relations between the two. So it makes the film slightly shallow and slow, in a word long.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

It is time for "Martin Scorses" to go back to his original
4 hour plus of his film "New York, New York". At Times it
moves slowly, and needs editing, other times the film is
deliberately slow, and then there are the scenes in the
second half that are so legendary, that they are what makes
this film a must for fans of "Jazz", "Kander And Ebb", and
"Liza Minnelli" performing at the top of her game! I bet there
are scenes you can tell are missing which should be put back
to give the story a stronger love story, rather than a "jerk"
with major talent and frustration who needs to dominate his
wife...........the dvd version could be, the definite version
of this film which has been seen in three different versions...
IT'S TIME FOR DVD...........AND FOR "NEW YORK,NEW YORK"@

Godard maintains that this was Scorsese's greatest film--an outrageous claim but one that I can somewhat sympathize with. It is ironic that Scorsese's reputation is as a sort of gritty realist; in fact, his real subject has always been the slightly warped dream world of profoundly alienated individuals and the real mean streets his characters walk are not in New York but in a half-remembered, half-hallucinated Hollywood of the 40's and 50's. His often--perhaps too often-- repeated gesture is to place his lonely dreamers in collision with "reality" and to show it to be everybit as slippery as fantasy and just as inescapable. In this strange musical he seems to build a whole world out of bits of pop culture memories, cliches, and Hollywood images. This seems to be what attracted him to Liza Minnelli (There are several allusions and echoes of Vincent Minnelli here and Scorsese was one of the younger directors the old man most admired) and this interest on Scorsese's part works to the actress's disadvantage: while her famous parentage clearly resonates with the era and style Scorsese is exploring, her role is grossly underwritten and the director gives her little help, though she livens up considerably in some of her scenes with DeNiro. In fact the scene with the famous theme song came about when Scorsese saw Minnelli working in Vegas--which points up the extent to which he was more interested in the real Liza Minnelli than the character she was supposed to be creating. (Upon completion of this film, Scorsese tried his hand at directing Minnelli in a full scale Broadway musical set in Vegas with disastrous results) The script is famously messy and unworthy of the director and his two stars but in spite of that grave fault, the film is full of strange, poetic images, a harshly brilliant and often funny performance by DeNiro (improvising wonderfully) and a spectacular soundtrack--the big band covers are first rate and Minnelli never sang better...In this ambitious mess of a movie Scorsese shows a sort of greatness far above anything in the more formally perfect but less interesting Raging Bull. By the 1980s Scorsese seemed to have run out of inspiration, with films that either repeat things he had already done better earlier (Goodfellows) or hollow genre pieces (The Age of Innocence). DeNiro, of course, had many more wonders to perform after New York, New York, but the economy and power of his work here remains one of the highlights of his career. Minnelli, alas, never really recovered professionally from this third big budget box office bomb after her Academy Award for Cabaret. She stopped growing as an artist, entered into a period of drug and alcohol abuse, and ultimately this quick and creative performer who had seemed to promise so much at one time became a sad and coarse self parody--a sort of Ethel Merman without the subtlety. But her best work, including this film, stands fast.

When this movie first came out I was not even a thought. Being a die hard fan of Liza Minelli I was curious to see what this movie is about. I did not expect my jaw to hit the floor. The story,cinemetography,music was spectacular. I cannot forget the performances of Robert De Niro and Liza Minelli as Jimmy Doyle and Francine Evans is this deep love/sometimes hate relationship. The movie is definitely worth while watching and I can't help to say as much as I really don't want to is how Minelli had a striking reminder of her mother Judy Garland in some of the numbers in this picture. Overall this movie is great.

Martin Scorsese's 1977 film,"New York,New York" is perhaps a great tribute to the 1940's with excellent jazz music that do justice to a great film with two Oscar winners:Robert De Niro, and Liza Minelli.The story takes place in 1945 shortly after WWII as a saxophonist(DeNiro) falls in love with a prominent singer(Minnelli).The film however does at times lose plotline throughout some parts,but it does however bring out the best in art direction,cinematography,and directing by one of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers."New York,New York" is excellent and a stylish musical epic (at three hours long)!

A terrible movie whose only interest today is that it premiered the song "New York, New York". Liza Minnelli was already on her downward spiral when she was cast in this-and it shows. There is no chemistry between Deniro and Minnelli here and the opening scenes when Deniro spots Minnelli with her awkward, homely looks in a crowd and immediately falls for her is absurd. There is no reason for these two to be together but the movie waddles on disastrously. This movie bombd in the theatres and it is easy to see why. The supposedly show stopping finale is on of the weakest performances of the title song you will ever see. Scorcese seems to be coasting on this one. He probably knew that he had a turkey on his hand but tried to make the best of it.

Before I watched New York New York, I never knew anything aboutit!... I knew my family had saw it.. But I never really asked them what the movie was about.. And one night it was on t.v.! So I wanted to watch it.. and I really did enjoy the beginning.. just watch it and see.. Liza Minnelli is a wonderful actress and her voice is beautiful.. and I enjoyed Robert De Niro's performance even though I wanted to kill his role lol.. (just watch it and see) I did like this movie.. but soon I began to lose intrest.. possibly because the beginning was very exciting.. that some how i wanted more of that excitement throughout the movie.. But the acting is wonderful.. and Martin Scorsese's directing was also wonderful.. I would of enjoyed it more if I might of had a greater intrest to watch it.. But this film is worth your time.. and maybe you may have full intrest through out this movie.. it doesn't hurt to get confy, and watch it! END

Before I saw New York New York, I never knew anything about it! Maybe it's because I am only a teenage girl, or maybe because I am not a huge Martin Scorsese fan.. But I never really knew about it.. and I knew my parents had saw it.. But I never really asked them what was it about.. And one night I was watching t.v. and it was on! So I decided to watch it.. and I really did like the beginning.. just watch and see.. Liza Minnelli is a beautiful actress and her voice is even more beautiful.. and Robert De Niro is a very talanted man.. But I wanted to kill his character! lol.. (just watch and see) I did enjoy this movie.. but then I began to lose intrest.. possibly because the beginning was exciting.. that some how i expected more.. But the acting is excellent.. and Martin Scorsese's directing was also great.. I think if I might of had a greater intrest to watch it.. I might of enjoyed it more.. But this movie is worth your time.. and possibly you may have full intrest through out this movie.. it doesn't hurt to relax, get confy, and watch it