Manhattan (Film)
- Woody Allen: Isaac Davis
- Diane Keaton: Mary Wilkie
- Michael Murphy: Yale
- Mariel Hemingway: Tracy
- Meryl Streep: Jill
- Anne Byrne: Emily
- Karen Ludwig: Connie
- Michael O'Donoghue: Dennis
- Kenny Vance: TV producer
- Charles Levin: TV Actors
- Karen Allen: TV actress
- David Rasche: TV Actors
- Wallace Shawn: Jeremiah
- Frances Conroy: Shakespearean actress
Manhattan is a romantic comedy in black and white by Woody Allen from 1979.
Action
Woody Allen settled on his story in the New York City borough of Manhattan in the relationship jungle neurotic intellectuals: Isaac, a gag writer for television shows, is satisfied with neither his profession nor his private life. He has two failed marriages already behind him, and his relationship with the 17 -year-old Tracy is problematic. And then he falls in love even in Mary, the mistress of his best friend. At this hullabaloo is more, Isaacs ex-wife published a revealing book about their common marriage.
" New York was his town and it always would be ," it says in the prologue of the film about Isaac. With him, the audience walks in Central Park, visiting the art museums and the local artist " Elaine 's". In the long shot, the figures in the metropolis are pushed to the extreme edges of the image and are often hard to detect. Underlaid Musically, the film inter alia with the Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin.
Reviews
"Woody Allen closes his Oscar-winning The City of euro sufferers and connects the sharp-tongued wit, with the life crisis of an American intellectuals is caricatured, with a poetic homage to his native city. The nostalgic music of Gershwin and the moody black and white photography to emphasize more than in Allen's earlier films, the melancholic undertones of his comedy. "
" In fact, it 's amazing what has become of the language comedian Woody Allen over time for a director, what security, laconic style of the craftsman he has acquired. Manhattan is undoubtedly the peak of his career, Manhattan is Woody Allen's City Lights. "
" In Woody Allen's Manhattan is about a list of the most underrated creators of all time - and no tail by one critic has noticed something. Here, this fence post belonged even to the comparatively humorous Wave that difficult bearable. "
Awards
Manhattan was nominated for two Academy Awards in the categories of Best Supporting Actress ( Mariel Hemingway ) and Best Screenplay. He also received a Golden Globe nomination in the category " Best Motion Picture - Drama ". He won the British Academy Film Award for Best Film.