Martin Scorsese's "New York, New York"

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Well?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

i can't even remember what movie it is, so, dud

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's the one in New York. *is killed*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Completely classic.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

More serious answer: It's the one with all the singing. And Liza Minelli. It kinda sticks out.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

I have the sdtk for some reason (a holdover from the ma-in-law's collection?), but have never seen the movie

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, didn't see it. no idea.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

i remember learning that the song "new york, new york" was written in 1977 and that fact completely blowing my mind.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

that sort of makes sense, it sounds like later period blowsy over the top throwback shit

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/newyorknewyork/index.html

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

gear: totally, in retrospect... but i'd grown up thinking it was an old standard!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

of course the reason i knew it at all when i was growing was probably because it was a current hit at the time!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

remember learning that the song "new york, new york" was written in 1977 and that fact completely blowing my mind.

Whoa. I had no idea.

Yeah, see, and my dad used to sing it all the time when I was growing up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

professionally?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

that makes sense, it was so ubiquitous when i was a kid. that and 'my kind of town'. when was that one written?

i think those two tunes made me underrate sinatra for years : (

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

haha i thought "ny, ny" was an old song when i was a kid too. popeye>>ny,ny>>>>>>>>>>one from the heart>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>at long last love

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, no, just as part of the repertoire of songs he sang around the house. Also see: "There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York," "They Call the Wind Mariah," "Honky Cat," and "Pow Wow the Indian Boy."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm almost halfway through it. Liza is surprisingly restrained and pretty good; Scorsese directs De Niro to act all Methody and Travis Bickle-ish in deliberately artificial recreations of '40s musical numbers. This piling of affectation atop affectation is most painful.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

screening in New Haven at the end of August

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

The first Scorsese film I ever saw (Franklin Theater, Nutley NJ, summer '77).

It's neither classic nor dud, but (tho I like it more) analogous to Spielberg's 1941 -- an overstuffed period piece made by a movie nut. All those extras in that opening V-J Day sequence! Also Liza's most interesting film perf after Cabaret (and clearly a semi-homage to her mom's '40s roles). And you really don't see many musicals where the 'hero' slaps around his pregnant wife in the back of a cab.

The restored uncut version is a loooooong sit, but I like the scene where Lionel Stander and de Niro basically say "Huh? What?" for two full minutes.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 August 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

The wife and I have resumed working our way through the Scorsese library. This is one I haven't seen before but I've always been perversely fascinated by the concept.

Anyone know if Italian-American ever made it to DVD?

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure all his shorts have, yeah.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I screened the uncut – a long slog. De Niro's exchanges with bandleaders and cabbies were like a rehearsal for his oafish bits in Raging Bull. I was suprised by how affecting Minnelli was without getting tremulous and dewy.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Jake LaMotta Plays the Sax! Nice little part for Dick Miller too.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure all his shorts have, yeah.

Is it buried away as an extra on something? Cause I'm coming up with nothing....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071680/

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

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Martin Scorsese's "New York, New York" - Classic or Dud?