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New York, New York

New Hollywood II 2008 / New York, New York / USA 1977

Scorsese’s grandiose and original tribute to classic Hollywood musicals. The brilliant Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli portray a headstrong saxophonist and a talented singer whose stormy love affair in the age of swing is complicated not only by their different natures, but primarily by their artistic ambitions.

Synopsis

Grandiose, catastrophic, gorgeous, schizophrenic - these and many other attributes have been used over the last thirty years to characterise Martin Scorsese’s tribute to the Hollywood musicals of MGM studios. After the success of Taxi Driver, the most conversant of the New Hollywood “movie brats” took a tangent into the artificial world of the optimistic, romantic realism made famous by Vincent Minnelli and George Cukor. It was however “infected” by the modern view of romance and by an intense type of acting using frequent improvisation in the style of John Cassavetes. The brilliant Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli portray a pair of artists whose stormy love affair is complicated not only by their different natures, but primarily by the different success that each of them has in materialising their artistic ambitions (as in, for example, Cukor’s A Star Is Born). When taken together with Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Scorsese’s sweeping experiment, vindicated after many years, completes a trio of brilliantly unhinged films that definitively shattered the patience of the studio bosses and brought the era of New Hollywood to its end.

About the film

136 min / Color, 35 mm

Director Martin Scorsese / Screenplay Earl Mac Rauch, Mardik Martin / Dir. of Photography Laszlo Kovacz / Music Fred Ebb, John Kander, George Gershwin / Editor Bert Lovitt, David Ramirez, Tom Rolf, Marcia Lucas, Irving Lerner / Producer Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler / Production Chartoff-Winkler Productions, United Artists / Cast Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli, Lionel Stander, Mary Kay Place / Contact Hollywood Classics, Park Circus Group

About the director

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese (b. 1942, Queens, New York City) has maintained his credit as a filmmaker of the classic Hollywood style, though it was not until last year that he was awarded with an Oscar for Best Director for the drama The Departed (2006). He works within the range of classic genres, be it melodrama (Age of Innocence, 1993), musical (New York, New York, 1977), biography (The Aviator, 2004 or, in its own way, The Last Temptation of Christ, 1988), comedy (The King of Comedy, 1983), or drama (Taxi Driver, 1976, Raging Bull, 1980). His work questions the value of moral imperatives in a violent, chaotic world where no rules apply; a theme he continued to examine even after Mean Streets (1973) in his other gangster pieces, GoodFellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Departed.

Contacts

Hollywood Classics
Suite 31, Beaufort Court, Admirals Way, E14 9XL, London
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 207 517 7525
E-mail: [email protected]

Park Circus Group
15 Woodside Crescent, G37UL, Glasgow
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 141 332 2175
E-mail: [email protected]

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Geraldine Higgins

Melanie Tebb

Robert De Niro
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