Manhattan

Showings

O Cinema North Beach Fri, Apr 14, 2017 6:45 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sat, Apr 15, 2017 2:30 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sat, Apr 15, 2017 6:45 PM
O Cinema North Beach Sun, Apr 16, 2017 6:45 PM
O Cinema North Beach Mon, Apr 17, 2017 6:45 PM
O Cinema North Beach Tue, Apr 18, 2017 6:45 PM
O Cinema North Beach Wed, Apr 19, 2017 6:45 PM
O Cinema North Beach Thu, Apr 20, 2017 6:45 PM

Description

By turns a rhapsodic city symphony and an astute character study, Manhattan is a portrait of a modern metropolis and the messy lives of its inhabitants. It's a love letter from a hometown hero that remains ones of Woody Allen's most successful explorations of his enduring themes: complex relationships, compromised romances and his own creative processes.

42-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis has a job he hates, a 17-year-old girlfriend he doesn't love and a lesbian ex-wife who's writing a tell-all book about their marriage. Living vicariously through the protagonist of his debut novel, but struggling to find personal or professional fulfillment of his own, Isaac quits his job as a television writer and begins a relationship with his best friend's mistress, setting him off on a neurosis-riddled journey of self-discovery and self-sabotage.

Shot in ravishing black & white Scope by the great Gordon Willis (Annie Hall, all three Godfathers, etc.), and backed by an all-Gershwin score, this is one of the greatest odes to New York by one of the greatest American filmmakers.

Released as a new 4K digital print scanned from the original camera negative, Woody Allen's monochrome masterpiece is the first of the director's classic oeuvre to be made available digitally by Park Circus and MGM.