Manhattan (1/10) Movie CLIP - He Adored New York City (1979) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Isaac (Woody Allen) writes the beginning of his book about New York City.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American filmmakers, Manhattan continued Allen's romantic obsessions in a slightly darker, more pessimistic vein. Allen stars as Isaac Davis, a TV comedy writer sick of the pap he is forced to churn out and harboring dreams of being the great American novelist. His love life is in barbed-wire territory: he is tormented by his second ex-wife Jill (Meryl Streep), a lesbian who has written a tell-all book about their marriage, and he is dating teenager Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), to whom he refuses to commit, and keeps hinting that a breakup may be imminent. Isaac's disillusioned (and married) best friend Yale (Michael Murphy) has begun an affair with the cerebral writer Mary Wilke (Diane Keaton). While Isaac makes a last minute, sink-or-swim decision to quit his job and devote all of his time to book writing, and neurotically moans about what the lack of a full time job will do to him ("My parents won't have as good of a seat in the synagogue," he moans. "They'll be far away from God... away from the action") Yale is crippled by his lack of resolve, as indicated by his inability to leave his wife Emily (Anne Byrne). Meanwhile, Isaac and Mary begin to fall for one another. Tracy then tells Isaac the basic truth that none of his hung-up friends and past lovers fully realizes: "You have to have a little more faith in people." Manhattan is both a seriocomic dissection of perpetually dissatisfied New Yorkers and an ode to the city itself, filmed in glorious black-and-white by ace cinematographer Gordon Willis, and set to a score of rhapsodic George Gershwin music.
CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1979)
Cast: Woody Allen
Director: Woody Allen
Producers: Charles H. Joffe, Robert Greenhut, Jack Rollins
Screenwriters: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
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[@nightmaster5593]

NYC has never looked better than in this movie. And for everybody who still loves this city with all their heart, you're not alone. It's one hell of a town!

[@just_cade]

I'm very much in love with New York City, flaws and all. I can't wait until it gets warmer so I can go back.

[@lizarrington3636]

Yes. Im a native over here in NYC and I just love it. I've traveled to other states like California and Florida and its just not for me. I even went upstate and its not for me. I'm a city girl.

[@nightmaster5593]

@@lizarrington3636 I totally agree. I've actually lived in all three of those places you mentioned, for many years each, and I'm exactly the same. I'm not even from NYC on any level, but still adore it. It's been a minute, but I hold it in the highest regard. I miss Mars Bar! Have a great week (Edit: btw yeah, my whole life has been in major international cities, including others not mentioned, and nothing holds a candle to NYC)

[@jerseypete6674]

It's 2021. What do you think of it now?

[@nightmaster5593]

@@jerseypete6674 thoroughly decimated

[@davidkast3587]

Gershwin and Woody Allen. Two legendary artists. Two New Yorkers.

[@chestermarcol3831]

I was 16 when this came out. Sitting in the theatre, and watching/listening to this into scene opened up a whole new world to me, with respect to art, particularly music and cinema. It literally changed my life. Too sappy. I grew up in small mid-western town, and when I saw this the first time, it made me realize there was a whole big world out ther.... Too provincial. This opening is iconic, to say the least. And never fails to give me goosebumps. I love it. And New York is going through some stuff, as it has in the past, but it's still the greatest city in America, and always will be.

[@ryebread7224]

There aren’t many films that can compete with the opening of this masterpiece. There are some, but not many. Love this opening!

[@jakubskrdlik4231]

which ones do you have in mind?

[@AlonsoRules]

@Randy White what about Raiders of the Lost Ark

[@ardaciftci1416]

@@jakubskrdlik4231 Inglorious Basterds

[@moonlightfitz]

Only Fellini can compete.

[@ryebread7224]

@@moonlightfitz definitely. The 8 1/2 opening will always be one of my favorites.

[@hamburg1306]

Beautiful cinematography from the great Gordon Willis.

[@lovereadingsnyc]

?

[@ChrisWolff2013]

This was his personal favorite film of hie entire career. That says something.

[@nw2094]

When I first started appreciating movies as an art form, this intro blew my mind. The way it’s shot in black and white, the dialogue, Rhapsody in Blue?? One of my all time favorite movie intros

[@dio9057]

Same

[@Gar96229]

The final bit with the fireworks combined with the music is genius directing.

[@daynatg6824]

Gar96 it’s divine

[@davidleethompsoniii8263]

Homer Would be Jealouse!

[@mirandac8712]

that's the view out of his apartment. the day before, he goes to gordon willis, why don't we just set up a camera in the window and see what happens

[@ImNotADeeJay]

nothing screams New York more than Gershwin's rhapsody in blue

[@jazzywayz9773]

I agree but ... have you heard Songs of New York by Mel Tormé? It's a beautiful "concept album" all about New York

[@rogosobe]

Is there any other movie opening as good as this one? Woody Allen, pure genius, sensible, a true artist.

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

I was 27 when this film came out. I had an apartment in Queens, plenty of friends and NYC was a fun place at night. The Yankees won their second world series in a row in 1978. This movie reminds me so much of that fun time. The scene shot a sun up with the Queensboro bridge in background makes me miss that time very much now that I’m almost 71. Nobody captured NYC before all the BS they have now like Woody.

[@zirontheimpaler]

I happened to catch a glimpse of what NYC was from that time, sadly born too late to experience it myself, but going back to footage of her from pre-1980's just hits differently. It has this rawness that's been replaced both willingly or not, immediately in some cases and over time for others. Seeing Billionaires row compared to what came before hurts. Both my parents were from the area, they told me stories of Studio 54, ice skating at NBC Plaza, how the stores all had such elaborate window displays, some I got to see in the early 90's no doubt somewhat less spectacular but to 5 y/o me it was magical. Grandparents were of the generation post ww1 so they got to enjoy seeing it really come into that "City on a Hill" era, new construction, new tech, new ideas. Sad the current generation only gets the Disney/Marvel version, and not greeted Camel Joe on I forget which bridge lol

[@DannyEastVillage]

I've lived here for 42 years and love it with all my heart. Tears overflow when I watch this, I love the city so much. The energy and excitement cannot be described, but Woody does a brilliant job of catching vignettes of it. Nothing much here of the city's so-called glamor or what have you--just a lot of fairly everyday scenes that, for some indefinable reason, capture the greatness of New York City.

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

Chapter 1: He adored New York city, he idolised it all out of proportion...emm, no, make that: "he romanticized it all out of proportion". Yeah. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin... Ammmm...no, let me start this over. Chapter 1: He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle, bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles... Ahh...corny, too corny for a man of my taste. Let me try and make it more profound. Chapter 1: He adored New York city; to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. The same lack of integrity to cause so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning the town of his dreams... No, no, it's gonna be too preachy. I mean, yeah, let's face it, I wanna sell some books here. Chapter 1: He adored New York city, although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. How hard it was to exist in a society desensitised by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage!... Hmm, too angry, I don't wanna be angry... Chapter 1: He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat...I love this! New York was his town and it always would be.

[@modrenwarefare]

0:09 most epic title screen ever! Haha.

[@RememberNineEleven]

Does anyone know where this neon sign was?

[@olliemartinelli4034]

I adore Gershwin with all my heart and decided to randomly watch this film with no idea about the soundtrack. I was instantly star struck. One of the best soundtracks to any film, fits back and white New York perfectly.

[@albertedmunds7500]

One of my favourite films of all time....and it always will be!

[@ruthhellkamp926]

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS.............THE PHOTOGRAPHY, THE GERSHWIN MUSIC...THE STORY...THE HUMOR...THE AMBIANCE CAPTURED ON FILM...AND IN BLACK AND WHITE......ABSOLUTELY INSPIRING.

[@nes_nick]

Woody Allen might be a weirdo off screen, but I love his movies! Brilliant filmmaker

[@brownycow22]

One of the best film openings ever

[@paulie_b_499]

Still one of the most amazing tributes to a city I’ve ever seen.

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

beautiful music, and beautiful cinematography for such a beautiful city, George Gershwin would have been proud if he had lived to see this film with his music in it

[@VasileiosXenis]

It has been said again before, BUT, NOTHING SCREAMS NEW YORK CITY more than Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue!

[@JMoruzzi]

What a ridiculous point to cut it at!

[@GGdeTOURS37]

NEW YORK was his town ... And it always would be!

[@carlalfaroh]

One of the best movie intros of all time.

[@andreabertozzi8199]

best intro scene of a movie E V E R

[@seanpanigel5494]

Now that is some amazing shots of New York

[@jamesthepassionateyoutuber9059]

New York is my favorite city, it’s such an amazing place!

[@tribudeuno]

Cut the clip way too short, needed to wait until the Gershwin final cadence. If you haven't noticed, Gershwin is one of the few things that still justifies the USA. Don't be heavy handed with him...

[@KidFresh71]

What an opening to a movie! Captures the multi-faceted essence of NYC, a nearly impossible task; well done.

[@laadidaouiomar1078]

Allen's filmography is a wonder, it deserves much more recognition than it does nowadays.

[@tatehildyard5332]

Too bad most people nowadays just go "Ew, Woody Allen, he likes little girls!". But I will admit his Amazon series sucked.

[@laadidaouiomar1078]

He made movies constantly, and I struggle to find a bad allen film, I've watched a lot of them and I've never being disappointed so far, even if I do, I'd tolerate it, the man made movies every year for the last 3 decades, what a legend

[@joel8583]

No one else like him, no one!

[@oscartovar9990]

Joe L is he still going at it?

[@hamburg1306]

The great Gordon Willis is the cinematographer for ‘Manhattan’

[@bdflatlander]

The woman I took to see this movie was from New York City (we saw the movie in Los Angeles) and she started crying during this scene because it did such an effective job in portraying the beauty and character of the city.

[@KR-ki9hw]

He makes NYC real. This film showed why I loved about that city. Just it. The streets, the great diners to duck in to be warm, and eat. Just walking, and turn a corner, and ordinary things are captivating.

[@chrisfinch8637]

From the way this movie was shot in Black & White, it feels like this movie came out in the mid 60s, though it was almost the 80s, at the time. It was one of Woody Allen's finest movies of the decade, and the music takes me back to those vintage United Airlines commercials, too.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

It’s such a stunning opening. And an odd one because the movie has nothing at all to do with the city itself beyond this opening. 😄

[@aztro4010]

I swear this film has the "La Dolce Vita" vibe in it, in terms of cinematography and the way the film looks.

[@hemming57]

Best movie opening ever!

[@gmar7836]

I was playing this song in a rented 30 foot long U-Haul box truck driving on the PCH on a very windy day in California making my way up to San Maria, by myself in 2007. With the way, the wind was whipping with the Pacific Ocean on my left I could feel the truck sway, this song was very fitting

[@TheLaidOffFounder]

Genius.

[@GrantSchinto]

This may be the most pitch perfect (literally as well as figuratively) film opening of all time.

[@gmar7836]

Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin. You can’t go wrong.

[@shadrach6299]

I love Rhapsody in Blue

[@pinballwizard57]

Why did you cut off the big finish!? There was like 5 second left of the sequence!

[@streppegna4503]

Yeah... Movieclips tends to do that a lot.

[@pariseyes]

stupid indeed, coitus interuptus !!

[@Dane_Youssef]

So you'll pay for the movie. Cruel, I know. But...

[@pariseyes]

@@Dane_Youssef I do have the movie, we are talking about this excerpt right now, not of the movie.

[@TheZoidberg312]

A love letter to his town. ❤

[@williamgregory1848]

Manhattan is Woody Allen’s heartfelt ode to New York. Shot in gorgeous black & white, the film opens with this stunning montage of New York City set to the strains of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue.” Unlike Martin Scorsese’s gritty Mean Streets & Sidney Lumet’s Serpico, Woody Allen’s Manhattan offers an idealized view of New York. This is Allen’s attempt to make sense of his relationship with the city and the difficulty of modern living.

[@timmyteaching]

And then the closing of this movie absolutely kills, too. Prime Woody.

[@mizofan]

Marvellous opening

[@davidleethompsoniii8263]

This is soooooooo Woody Allen.

[@gerryleb8575]

A wonderful film. And, a darn good excuse to put Mariel Hemingway on the screen, because she's so lovely.

[@lucarango7540]

La migliore scena iniziale della storia del cinema

[@GGdeTOURS37]

Chapter one: "I adored MANHATTAN OF WOODY ALLEN" ... ;) ... (GG from France)

[@just_cade]

I love you New York ❤

[@fcbchris7]

What a way to start a movie

[@astrologer74]

Nice Memories.......

[@melvinsamudio6874]

So he basically describes New york from all points of views 2 minutes...

[@jenkinsfamily2229]

Ooh yeah, that clarinet gliss.

[@corrupt_insomniac]

This scene alone made me wanna go to New York

[@blondewriter99]

the plot of the middle-aged man dating the high school girl didn't age that well but still a very good movie!

[@MCO18]

I’d love to visit 1970s New York in all its gritty and polluted splendor. The city is more like Disneyland now.

[@lapislazuli5035]

Trust me, you really wouldn't. You wouldn't want to be surrounded by crime and lowlifes.

[@ramencurry6672]

I can see your point. However, NYC is still good. I visited St. Louis, Memphis and other American cities and they basically have turned into ghost towns. At least NYC is still lively and not emptied like many other American cities

[@good393-t2k]

Woody allen's breathing is best character in this movie

[@Stranger_In_The_Alps]

Joe Rogan and Sam Morrill brought me here

[@actionmoviefrea]

HOW could you end it there . . . ?!

[@AnthonyPOSSO-yg9gx]

Phone boothes all a part of it too ( how busy they were and line to make a call 📞 but it wat just how it was , I loved it anyways👍🙌☎️📞 😂😮😊

[@TheatreCritic]

Not his greatest film. But what an opening !!

[@billbergendahl2629]

I saw this movie in 1979.

[@tracyfortune3297]

Best director, and best film. Such a shame how the corrupt, criminal, and ineffectual NYC gov./gov't is destroying the city to the point that it's nearly all shut down and boarded up. I was there in the late '70s. Looking at the situation now, it looks like a decaying heap. So incredibly sad. :(

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

The msm narrative says the current NYC was better than what existed in the 70s and 80s I disagree. The current city has no personality or soul.

[@blondewriter99]

I live here it's not remotely shut down or boarded up. Weirdo.

[@MaximilienRobespierre1]

Is that the WTC at 0:32 ?

[@blondewriter99]

Chrysler building.

[@donuts7839]

one of the best opening ever

[@ILoveDavidLynch]

The way his films start just pull you in

[@midcenturymoldy]

Too bad this clip cuts off the very beginning and the very end.

[@charlesedwardandrewlincoln8181]

What an intro!

[@jobob47]

a classic woody opening

[@benllvfroggo]

IM GONNA CRY

[@MichaelSmith-or8kt]

Always wanted to play this in slow motion on a big hd screen at a party. Sort of like a slowly moving black and white painting. With the volume turned down of course.

[@HelenGynell]

HOW COULD YOU CUT IT THERE > > > ?!?!?

[@actioncom2748]

Gershwin seems it was made for movies.

[@keirstenwahlberg6476]

Sounds like me when I am trying to find the right words.

[@gaguy1967]

Come fly Chicago's hometown airline, come fly the friendly skies

[@jerrythemouse28]

Let's fly the friendly skies together!

[@jerrythemouse28]

At United, we're connecting people. Uniting the world and doing it safely. From all of us, we sincerely thank you and enjoy your flight!

[@LazlosPlane]

WTF???? HOW CAN YOU CUT OUT THE FINAL FEW SECONDS, THE TREMENDOUS CLIMAX? ARE YOU INSANE?

[@Aramizito]

Playing tribute to George Gershwin ❤🎉

[@eddiemelara2260]

My town

[@jerrythemouse28]

At United, we're connecting people. Uniting the world and doing it safely. From all of us, we sincerely thank you and enjoy your flight!

[@peterthomas4378]

How the mighty have fallen.

[@fasteddie4107]

We bought this movie used at a local music store. The opening scenes of Manhattan were captivating, but then within the first 10 minutes of the movie, we learned that a main character is a child rapist and his friend is a cheater. We took it back.

[@EASYTIGER10]

Aww nahk id awf and get me a bagel and a kwarfee

[@rossanarossini9002]

Struggente eterno Gershwin

[@Veers31]

Woody Allen sucks but this is one of the great movie openings, thanks Gordon Willis

[@dylandevilliers4895]

Best opening sequence to a movie?

[@yacovlevi]

If I had to leave New York City, I would leave America.

[@raquelalcala5678]

Tweet that

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

Can someone tell me the meaning of this film? He broke it off with his underaged girlfriend for his buddy’s mistress but it doesn’t last and the underage girl is totally in the right for leaving him for London and he’s left alone

[@leocvalle]

That's the exactly meaning! Life and relationships don't make much sense, we are all irrational and desperate for love and confort but we are attracted really by what we can't get.

[@daveorme1683]

The egg joke at the end of Annie Hall. Funny, but it sums it up.

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

@@leocvallewhat an artist honestly he made movies like people in the decades before him wrote novels. Woody Allen makes like modern 70s and 80s versions of stuff like the great gatsby

[@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada]

Merowwe new York is miiiii town how about meeeee

[@dagwort]

Anyone know where that school is (if it is a school) at 1:15?

[@herwoonghost8535]

Collège ronsard en force

[@Tinydancer2009]

I'll make IT soon Rio, 8/11/2018

[@joeylantis22]

Did you make it?

[@jazzywayz9773]

If you can make it there, you're gonna make it anywhere

[@C.A._Old]

*i sad about Anti-Nuke Rally Outside World Trade Center was forgotten late 70s...*

[@k1k1b34r]

wtf I remember this in colour

[@rindanefikirleriolan1flano664]

Gershwin, a Jewish look to jazz... Allen, a Jewish look to NYC jam...

[@AlonsoRules]

this is the only good scene in the movie

[@kimmoore1119]

Why is the camera black and white?

[@luisgomez7367]

This is when he was considered an eccentric genius different opinion now.