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.
New York, New York
The war was over and the world was falling in love again.
1977 · 2h 43m · PG
Drama, Music, Romance
Directed by
Martin Scorsese
Overview
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Director and cast
- Martin Scorsese Director
- Liza Minnelli as Francine Evans
- Robert De Niro as Jimmy Doyle
- Lionel Stander as Tony Harwell
- Barry Primus as Paul Wilson
- Dick Miller as Palm Club Owner
- Mary Kay Place as Bernice Bennett
- Shera Danese as Doyle's Girl in Major Chord
- Frank Sivero as Eddie Di Muzio
- Don Calfa as Gilbert
- Jack Haley as Master of Ceremonies
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
In a final burst from Old Hollywood, Minnelli tears into the title song and it's a wowser.
Scorsese's tribute/parody/critique of the MGM musical is a razor-sharp dissection of the conventions of both meeting-cute romances and rags-to-riches biopics.
Why should a man of Mr. Scorsese's talent be giving us what amounts to no more than a film buff's essay on a pop-film form that was never, at any point in film history, of the first freshness?
Martin Scorsese's New York, New York never pulls itself together into a coherent whole, but if we forgive the movie its confusions we're left with a good time.
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