Manhattan (1979) movie review - Sneak Previews with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- This is the original review of Manhattan by Siskel & Ebert on "Sneak Previews" in 1979. All of the segments pertaining to the movie have been included.
The opening of Manhattan is incredible!!
The music used throughout that introduction, takes me back to those United Airlines commercials- in which was where I first heard those various tunes that has that same melody, before watching Manhattan.
I love Manhattan and can watch and rewatch. Every few years it’s time for another watch. But I worry that the popularity of Netflix and Amazon Prime etc will mean that beautiful old films like this will disappear from memory
DVD's and bluray's exist
Siskel quote "There's no one quite like woody Allen making a comedy with complex characters." This movie has that & I liked it just as I enjoy most of his flims such as Purple rose of Cairo, Annie hall, love & death, Hannah and her sisters, Cafe society, Interiors & Radio days.
I love how Woody Allen doesn`t waste film or get lost in himself. Most of his movies are 90 minutes to 1:50..not bloated... A lot directors are in love with their own style....
I think the main reason is that he is a writer first, his visuals supports the dialog and as he said before he finds very difficult to generate material for more than 90 mins. When he evolved to a newer style and audience his films got a little longer.
Yes his films are usually tight, there's not a lot of fat on them. He doesn't overdoe things, scenes don't go on too long. Because it's so dialogue driven every line has to justify its place in the film.
"Why do these people seek out all of these troubles? Allen says he and his friends create complicated relationships in order to avoid confronting much more complex, depressing, and unsolvable problems."
That's very interesting and insightful, never though of that regarding relationship drama.
I see people do this in real life a lot. Super insightful line. Cuts right to the center of many toxic relationships.
Streep is quite attractive in that scene!
She’s attractive 24/7
Think I prefer this to Annie Hall.
Me too!!!
Superb film, the dialogue is easily the best thing about it.
Put aside the crazed Mia Farrow campaign against him and he's probably the greatest genius of film comedy of the 20th century.
i doubt you even know who chaplin and keaton etc are...let alone have seen their movies
Yes, the "crazed Mia Farrow campaign", just because he took nude pictures of Soon Yi when she was a child, then started having sex with her when she was a teenager, after she considered him a father figure for years.
Who would have a problem with That?? Evidently not you, bro.
Decent people, on the other hand.......
@@maskedmarvyl4774 he's never been found to have done anything illegal and he's in a long term relationship with a woman which probably started when she was about 22.
"Lovely relationship with a 17 year old girl." LOL! What one could say in 1979 could not be said now in 2019. After everything that has happened with Woody since 1992, and our current Me Too/Cancel Culture craze, that line would not have worked. That said, I still like Allen's early work like Annie Hall, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, and Hannah and Her Sisters. I have not been impressed with what he's done over the past decade. Sadly, however, we in the U.S. may never again see another new Woody Allen movie.
That struck me too. So sad what we have devolved into in the last forty years. "Manhattan" is a great film.
What today’s generation (as well as many of my own - I’m 42) don’t get is that what was precisely funny about Allen’s films back then was HIM, his character, the situations he wrote for himself. (Ebert analysis at 5:06 is worth noting in this regard). Of course there’s nothing *inherently* funny about a teenager being in a relationship with a much older man. What was funny about it in this movie is that it’s Woody Allen who is the much older man. It’s funny picturing that character doing anything. It’s like the George Carlin joke about rape: “I can prove to you that rape can be funny. Picture Porky Pig taping Elmer Fudd.” Picturing Woody Allen doing anything used to be funny to so many people. For me, it still is. It’s the context that makes something funny.
@@spb7883 lots of people have gone broke thinking they know what makes something funny.....
Jade Zee True
You should check out Taxi Driver from 1976; a guy having a lovely relationship with a teenaged girl was blown to bits by a vigilante- as the happy ending
Man did they show long scenes back then.
Good 😊😊
Are you folks kidding me? I saw "Manhattan" when it came out, and I felt the subject matter was pretty 'creepy' even for 1979! Woody Allen has done the old man/young woman love affair angle to death, and if he has made his last movie, then so be it!
No problem with the 17 year old live-in girlfriend? Times were different then.
Meryl Streep plays a good cold, creepy woman. Seeing her in "The Devil Wears Prada" forever diminished my view of women.
This movie has not aged well.
garbage trash movie in crappy mono sound
Too bad that almost every move he made after “Hannah and Her Sisters” is pathetic.
"Hannah And Her Sisters" may ( arguably) may be better, but "Sweet And Lowdown" and "Bullets Over Broadway" are not pathetic.
Match Point, Blue Jasmine, and Midnight in Paris are alright if you haven’t watched em
@@shanegreen1677 But for the most recent, unreleased, film, I've seen them all and particularly enjoyed Midnight In Paris. And, from a strictly artistic perspective, I do think it's unfortunate that there won't be any more.
I think "Husbands and Wives" was Woody's last really good film. But hey, he had a great 20 year run, not many people can say that.
Manhattan murder mystery was fun and Midnight in Paris was nominated by the academy for best picture.