Here’s some fantastic new for the world: Woody Allen’s self-indulgent lifestyle has been recorded on film! In “Manhattan,” Allen plays a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl, then falls in love with his best friend’s mistress. What a stretch!
Allen also served as director and co-writer of the screenplay with Marshall Brinkman. This capable effort earned him and Brinkman one of the film’s two Academy Award nominations, Best Original Screenplay. The other went to Mariel Hemingway for Best Supporting Actress.
Co-stars with Allen and Hemingway include Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Meryl Streep, Anne Byrne, Michael O’Donoghue, Wallace Shawn, Bella Abzug, Charles Levin, Karen Allen, David Rasche, Mark Linn-Baker, Frances Conroy, Ray Serra, and Tisa Farrow, younger sister of Mia Farrow and daughter of director John Farrow and actress Maureen O’Sullivan.
The film has outstanding cinematography by Gordon Willis, who filmed in black and white. It opens with a montage of stunning images of Manhattan Island and other parts of New York City, with background music including George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and Mozart’s “Symphony No. 40.” “Manhattan” was successful in theatrical release for United Artists.
Manhattan (1979)
cinema
My Review
Here’s some fantastic new for the world: Woody Allen’s self-indulgent lifestyle has been recorded on film! In “Manhattan,” Allen plays a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl, then falls in love with his best friend’s mistress. What a stretch!
Allen also served as director and co-writer of the screenplay with Marshall Brinkman. This capable effort earned him and Brinkman one of the film’s two Academy Award nominations, Best Original Screenplay. The other went to Mariel Hemingway for Best Supporting Actress.
Co-stars with Allen and Hemingway include Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Meryl Streep, Anne Byrne, Michael O’Donoghue, Wallace Shawn, Bella Abzug, Charles Levin, Karen Allen, David Rasche, Mark Linn-Baker, Frances Conroy, Ray Serra, and Tisa Farrow, younger sister of Mia Farrow and daughter of director John Farrow and actress Maureen O’Sullivan.
The film has outstanding cinematography by Gordon Willis, who filmed in black and white. It opens with a montage of stunning images of Manhattan Island and other parts of New York City, with background music including George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and Mozart’s “Symphony No. 40.” “Manhattan” was successful in theatrical release for United Artists.