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Manhattan
Screening: Monday 21 August, 6:30pm
USA
1979
Director: Woody Allen
Production co: United Artists
Producer: Charles H. Joffe
Screenplay: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Cinematography: Gordon Willis
Editor: Susan E. Morse
Production designer: Mel Bourne
Costumes: Albert Wolsky, Ralph Lauren
Sound: Dan Sable, James Sabat, Jack Higgins
Music: George Gershwin
Isaac Davis: Woody Allen
Mary Wilke: Diane Keaton
Yale: Michael Murphy
Tracy: Mariel Hemingway
Jill: Meryl Streep
Emily: Anne Byrne
Connie: Karen Ludwig
Dennis: Michael O'Donoghue
Party guests: Victor Truro, Tisa Farrow, Helen Hanft
Guest of honour: Bela Abzug
Television director: Gary Weis
Television producer: Kenny Vance
96 mins
B & W
35mm (2.35:1)
R16 cert
ADMISSION STRICTLY MEMBERS ONLY
Can we agree that Woody Allen may suck as a human being, but that he made a great film? (FYI: Manhattan is a black-and-white/widescreen meditation on love, morality, mortality, and New York City, in which Allen’s character dates a 17-year-old played by Mariel Hemingway. “I’m dating a girl wherein I can beat up her father,” he brags to his friends.) You may think the film is a dishonest, sentimental, self-aggrandizing work of seduction – and you’d be right. But isn’t that true of most great art? Plot aside, Manhattan is also the director’s most visually ravishing work, with images that could kick around in a person’s daydreams for a lifetime. – Kate Sullivan, City Pages
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