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 New York, New York is a film directed by Martin Scorsese, released in 1977. It is a musical tribute to Scorsese's home town of New York City, and stars Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli as a pair of musicians and... 
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 The Independent - London Film: New York Film Festival
10/12/2001: 695 words, approx. 2 pages IN MARTIN SCORSESE'S My Voyage to Italy, a four-hour documentary valentine to Italian Neo-realism, Rome and Naples look uneasy and war- torn. As the soulful narrator of this educative epic, Scorsese says that American today could never imagine life so damaged and so at... summary from source:
Forward New York Jewish Film Festival
01/15/1999: 321 words, approx. 1 pages Forward 01-15-1999 NEW YORK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Three world, seven American and four New York premieres are among the 25 film screenings in this year's New York Jewish Film Festival -- the eighth annual collaboration between the Jewish Museum and the New... summary from source:
 In Business Las Vegas Lorenzo Creighton: President of New York, New York
1/12/2007: 3,999 words, approx. 13 pages New York has an eclectic mix of cultures. New York-New York is being run by a president with an eclectic background himself. Lorenzo Creighton used to work in Iowa prisons, then in banks. He was a judge, then he became a gambling regulator. He built... summary from source:
The New York Observer Critic Jerry Saltz Heads to New York
3/30/2007: 337 words, approx. 1 pagesNew York announced today that Jerry Saltz, the long-time art critic for the Village Voice, is joining the staff next month. It's a significant loss for the Voice's culture section, considering that Saltz is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. So...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Leonard Quart and Barbara Quart
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In the following review of New York, New York, the critics praise Scorsese for imbuing a skillful re-creation of 1940s musicals with a fascinating undercurrent of rage and darkness but conclude that the director has failed to fully examine these characteristic themes.
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Critical Essay by Tom Milne
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New York, New York looks at first glance like a tolerably successful pastiche, full of wayward longueurs that perversely assert themselves as being among its major pleasures. On reflection, one realises that Scorsese has simply inverted the basic premises of the musical, a move that requires a certain adjustment in the spectator. The protracted opening sequence (after a brief evocation of the V-J Day celebrations in Times Square), for instance, is entirely concerned with Jimmy Doyle's tortuously inge... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Vincent Canby
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[There are ritualized conceits in] "New York, New York," Martin Scorsese's elaborate, ponderous salute to Hollywood movies of the 1940's and early 50's in the form of a backstage musical of the period. (p. 70) The big-band sounds are right, as are the sets and costumes and especially the movie conventions. "New York, New York" knowingly embraces a narrative line as formal and strict in its way as the shape of a sonnet. Even the sets are meant to look like bac...
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