With the two unbeatable goals of revitalizing lower Manhattan and exposing the work of new independent film-makers, the inaugural Tribeca Film Festival kicked off Wednesday, May 8, 2002. Backed by the star power of Robert De Niro and partner Jane Rosenthal, and organized by...

WATERFRONT: A JOURNEY AROUND MANHATTANIN 18 FILMS February 27 through March 11 MOMAGramercy Time and tide: Class struggle on the New York waterfront Make a New York waterfront movie today-now that the action has moved to cost-effective New Jersey container ports-and it...

In Husbands and Wives, Mia Farrow’s character memorably tells her husband, played by Woody Allen, that he isn’t serious about moving to Europe, because he “couldn’t survive off the island of Manhattan for more than 48 hours.” Nevertheless, it has been rumored from time...

The 100 West 18th Street condo will have 43 apartments when it opens this winter on the edge of trendy Chelsea. Nearly 60 percent of these have sold since sales started in March. The typical buyer has been a financial services professional in his or...

Like most gagmen who earn their living by making fun of people, Woody Allen can recognize the ridiculous in everyone but himself…. Allen's strained seriousness and inadvertent humor are … on display in his latest film, Manhattan…. As always, his writing and directing are aimed at marketing his own virtue, or rather that of his familiar persona, here christened Isaac Davis….

Manhattan is a profoundly and multifariously dishonest picture. It can be read in both directions, as if it were written simultaneously in English and Hebrew. As Manhattan, it is the story of a decent little fellow who shakes off TV commercialism, moves into a more modest apartment, and tries to authenticate his life as an artist…. Read backward, however—and the continuous flip humor demands that it be read thus—Nattahnam is all tongue-in-cheek cynicism. Isaac is a bit of a shnook, rede...

Woody Allen's Manhattan has materialized out of the void as the one truly great American film of the '70s. It tops Annie Hall in brilliance, wit, feeling, and articulation, though it is less of a throbbing valentine to a lost love, and more of a meditation on an overexamined life. As a carnival of the sexes, it can be mentioned in the same breath with such previous masterpieces as Max Ophuls's Madame de …, Jean Renoir's La Regle du Jeu, Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a ...