Annie Hall
1977
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The overture is filled with brash confidence: Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," played over powerful black-and-white visions of Manhattan and its skyline, and the mighty bridges leaping out to it from the provinces.
Mar 18, 2001 · Produced by. Charles H. Joffe. I had forgotten what perfect pitch Woody Allen brought to ''Manhattan"-- how its tone and timing slip so gracefully between comedy and romance. I hadn't seen it in years, and remembered mostly the broad outlines, the one-liners, the romance between a middle-aged man and a high school girl.
This is never better expressed than in his 1979 comedy, Manhattan. The city is lovingly shown in beautiful black-and-white photography and captured in widescreen.
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Manhattan is an interesting film by Woody Allen, The story and dialogue between the characters is more serious and believable than in the only other film I saw Annie Hall. The humor also didn't seem forced or written in just to make something funnier, the jokes were naturally funny.
Apr 25, 1979 · Manhattan: Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway. The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Parents need to know that Manhattan, Woody Allen's black-and-white film released in 1979, intentionally and successfully infuses romantic comedy with serious thematic material. Human frailty, fragility, fear of loss and death, self-delusion, and insecurity are the topics to which Allen brings both his wit….
Manhattan (1979) was an acclaimed, mature, B/W masterpiece enhanced by a George Gershwin score (performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta), telling about infidelity,...
