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New York, New York
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 4012878001917
Format: PAL
Languages: German (Original Language), Analog
Theatrical Release Date: June 21, 1977
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Editorial Review:
Martin Scorsese took a daring turn from the mean streets that made his reputation in the early '70s with New York, New York, his homage to the big-band era. And what an homage it is: the dazzling production design by Boris Leven continues to impress over the film's nearly three-hour length. And there's no denying the anthemic appeal of Kander and Ebb's title song, belted with winning bravado by costar Liza Minnelli in a showstopping finale. But as valiantly as Minnelli and Robert De Niro try, they can't elevate the shaky plot beyond its two-dimensional construct. It purports to be a Star Is Born-like tragedy of colliding careers, but too often it feels like inadvertently eavesdropping on a marriage counselor's most truculent clients. (There are times you want someone--anyone--to slap Minnelli upside the head with a copy of Women Who Love Too Much.) For diehard Minnelli (or Scorsese) fans only. --Anne Hurley
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Rating:  - One of the Great Films
If you look up this film on Wikipedia you find it is on several "100 Greatest Films" lists by several groups including Time magazine and various film groups. It is a tribute to all the great Hollywood musicals and noir films of the 1940s and 1950s and as Sorcese explains in the commentary everything is a little brighter, cleaner, neater than real life, to capture that sound stage feel of the studio era.
De Niro plays a tough new Yorker whose main love is Be Bop, a pure musical jazz ... Read More
Rating:  - Worth the double dip only if you crave special features
The DVD transfer for this item is NOT enhanced for widescreen TVs, just like the previously released version. It is an excellent film, but because MGM decided to pussyfoot around giving the actual film a better transfer and enhancement, I cannot justify anyone purchasing this piece of repackaged junk. If you love special features, this would be the only reason to double dip. I prefer the pristine transfer over anything else, and was deeply disappointed. As a huge Scorsese fan, this film by far gets ... Read More
Rating:  - Still waiting for "enhanced for widescreen TV" transfer
The version of the movie in this "special edition" is the same non-anamorphic transfer that was released in 2004. If you own a HD TV set you'll know what I mean. Instead of presenting the best version possible, this provides a flat letterboxed version well suited to the late 1980s.
Rating:  - Neither masterpiece nor disaster but something inbetween
Considering the chaotic, often drug-fuelled circumstances of its production, New York, New York seems a lot more disciplined and successful than it has any right to be. While there's never once a sense or flavor of New York - this is pure Hollywood all the way - Scorsese's mixture of stylised settings and naturalistic drama goes beyond the traditional happy ending and takes what starts out a standard boy-meets-girl musical plotline into darker emotional territory. It may lose its way towards the and ... Read More
Rating:  - I don't think this is going to be the Ultimate Edition either
I'll start by rephrasing what I said about the last DVD edition
Even the non Special Edition of Boxcar Bertha from the Martin Scorsese Collection was presented in Widescreen , but alas New York, New York was only Letterboxed.
It only included the so called restored version of the film which is in reality only one of three versions released.
If any film is more deserving than The Abyss for a "watch it the way you want to" DVD release it's New York, New York.
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