Manhattan (1/10) Movie CLIP - He Adored New York City (1979) HD

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  • @nightmaster5593
    @nightmaster5593 5 лет назад +413

    NYC has never looked better than in this movie. And for everybody who still loves this city with all their heart, you're not alone. It's one hell of a town!

    • @just_cade
      @just_cade 4 года назад +11

      I'm very much in love with New York City, flaws and all. I can't wait until it gets warmer so I can go back.

    • @lizarrington3636
      @lizarrington3636 3 года назад +5

      Yes. Im a native over here in NYC and I just love it. I've traveled to other states like California and Florida and its just not for me. I even went upstate and its not for me. I'm a city girl.

    • @nightmaster5593
      @nightmaster5593 3 года назад +3

      @@lizarrington3636 I totally agree. I've actually lived in all three of those places you mentioned, for many years each, and I'm exactly the same. I'm not even from NYC on any level, but still adore it. It's been a minute, but I hold it in the highest regard. I miss Mars Bar! Have a great week
      (Edit: btw yeah, my whole life has been in major international cities, including others not mentioned, and nothing holds a candle to NYC)

    • @jerseypete6674
      @jerseypete6674 3 года назад +2

      It's 2021. What do you think of it now?

    • @nightmaster5593
      @nightmaster5593 3 года назад +3

      @@jerseypete6674 thoroughly decimated

  • @chestermarcol3831
    @chestermarcol3831 11 месяцев назад +23

    I was 16 when this came out. Sitting in the theatre, and watching/listening to this into scene opened up a whole new world to me, with respect to art, particularly music and cinema. It literally changed my life.
    Too sappy.
    I grew up in small mid-western town, and when I saw this the first time, it made me realize there was a whole big world out ther....
    Too provincial.
    This opening is iconic, to say the least. And never fails to give me goosebumps. I love it. And New York is going through some stuff, as it has in the past, but it's still the greatest city in America, and always will be.

  • @ryebread7224
    @ryebread7224 6 лет назад +208

    There aren’t many films that can compete with the opening of this masterpiece. There are some, but not many. Love this opening!

    • @jakubskrdlik4231
      @jakubskrdlik4231 5 лет назад

      which ones do you have in mind?

    • @AlonsoRules
      @AlonsoRules 3 года назад +1

      @Randy White what about Raiders of the Lost Ark

    • @ardaciftci1416
      @ardaciftci1416 3 года назад

      @@jakubskrdlik4231 Inglorious Basterds

    • @moonlightfitz
      @moonlightfitz 2 года назад +5

      Only Fellini can compete.

    • @ryebread7224
      @ryebread7224 2 года назад +4

      @@moonlightfitz definitely. The 8 1/2 opening will always be one of my favorites.

  • @davidkast3587
    @davidkast3587 2 года назад +39

    Gershwin and Woody Allen. Two legendary artists. Two New Yorkers.

  • @nw2094
    @nw2094 4 года назад +124

    When I first started appreciating movies as an art form, this intro blew my mind. The way it’s shot in black and white, the dialogue, Rhapsody in Blue?? One of my all time favorite movie intros

  • @hamburg1306
    @hamburg1306 6 лет назад +193

    Beautiful cinematography from the great Gordon Willis.

    • @lovereadingsnyc
      @lovereadingsnyc 5 лет назад

      ?

    • @ChrisWolff2013
      @ChrisWolff2013 3 года назад +5

      This was his personal favorite film of hie entire career. That says something.

  • @Gar96229
    @Gar96229 4 года назад +74

    The final bit with the fireworks combined with the music is genius directing.

    • @daynatg6824
      @daynatg6824 4 года назад +4

      Gar96 it’s divine

    • @davidleethompsoniii8263
      @davidleethompsoniii8263 4 года назад +1

      Homer
      Would be Jealouse!

    • @mirandac8712
      @mirandac8712 3 года назад +3

      that's the view out of his apartment. the day before, he goes to gordon willis, why don't we just set up a camera in the window and see what happens

  • @sleuthentertainment5872
    @sleuthentertainment5872 3 года назад +40

    Chapter 1: He adored New York city, he idolised it all out of proportion...emm, no, make that: "he romanticized it all out of proportion".
    Yeah. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin...
    Ammmm...no, let me start this over.
    Chapter 1: He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle, bustle of the crowds and the traffic.
    To him New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles...
    Ahh...corny, too corny for a man of my taste. Let me try and make it more profound.
    Chapter 1: He adored New York city; to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture.
    The same lack of integrity to cause so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning the town of his dreams...
    No, no, it's gonna be too preachy. I mean, yeah, let's face it, I wanna sell some books here.
    Chapter 1: He adored New York city, although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture.
    How hard it was to exist in a society desensitised by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage!...
    Hmm, too angry, I don't wanna be angry...
    Chapter 1: He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat...I love this!
    New York was his town and it always would be.

  • @olliemartinelli4034
    @olliemartinelli4034 Год назад +8

    I adore Gershwin with all my heart and decided to randomly watch this film with no idea about the soundtrack. I was instantly star struck. One of the best soundtracks to any film, fits back and white New York perfectly.

  • @ImNotADeeJay
    @ImNotADeeJay 4 года назад +158

    nothing screams New York more than Gershwin's rhapsody in blue

    • @jazzywayz9773
      @jazzywayz9773 2 года назад +2

      I agree but ... have you heard Songs of New York by Mel Tormé? It's a beautiful "concept album" all about New York

  • @jaymorgenthal9479
    @jaymorgenthal9479 2 года назад +58

    I was 27 when this film came out. I had an apartment in Queens, plenty of friends and NYC was a fun place at night. The Yankees won their second world series in a row in 1978. This movie reminds me so much of that fun time. The scene shot a sun up with the Queensboro bridge in background makes me miss that time very much now that I’m almost 71. Nobody captured NYC before all the BS they have now like Woody.

    • @zirontheimpaler
      @zirontheimpaler Год назад +2

      I happened to catch a glimpse of what NYC was from that time, sadly born too late to experience it myself, but going back to footage of her from pre-1980's just hits differently. It has this rawness that's been replaced both willingly or not, immediately in some cases and over time for others. Seeing Billionaires row compared to what came before hurts. Both my parents were from the area, they told me stories of Studio 54, ice skating at NBC Plaza, how the stores all had such elaborate window displays, some I got to see in the early 90's no doubt somewhat less spectacular but to 5 y/o me it was magical. Grandparents were of the generation post ww1 so they got to enjoy seeing it really come into that "City on a Hill" era, new construction, new tech, new ideas. Sad the current generation only gets the Disney/Marvel version, and not greeted Camel Joe on I forget which bridge lol

    • @stealthcat100
      @stealthcat100 17 дней назад +1

      Nothing could have been better than that . Wow . You were in the centre of the universe in your prime at the most creative point in history . Fantastic

  • @rogosobe
    @rogosobe 2 года назад +16

    Is there any other movie opening as good as this one? Woody Allen, pure genius, sensible, a true artist.

  • @albertedmunds7500
    @albertedmunds7500 4 года назад +48

    One of my favourite films of all time....and it always will be!

  • @brownycow22
    @brownycow22 2 года назад +8

    One of the best film openings ever

  • @paulie_b_499
    @paulie_b_499 Год назад +6

    Still one of the most amazing tributes to a city I’ve ever seen.

  • @modrenwarefare
    @modrenwarefare 4 года назад +36

    0:09 most epic title screen ever! Haha.

  • @DannyEastVillage
    @DannyEastVillage 3 месяца назад +1

    I've lived here for 42 years and love it with all my heart. Tears overflow when I watch this, I love the city so much. The energy and excitement cannot be described, but Woody does a brilliant job of catching vignettes of it. Nothing much here of the city's so-called glamor or what have you--just a lot of fairly everyday scenes that, for some indefinable reason, capture the greatness of New York City.

  • @ruthhellkamp926
    @ruthhellkamp926 2 года назад +6

    LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS.............THE PHOTOGRAPHY, THE GERSHWIN MUSIC...THE STORY...THE HUMOR...THE AMBIANCE CAPTURED ON FILM...AND IN BLACK AND WHITE......ABSOLUTELY INSPIRING.

  • @nes_nick
    @nes_nick 3 месяца назад +2

    Woody Allen might be a weirdo off screen, but I love his movies! Brilliant filmmaker

  • @chrisfinch8637
    @chrisfinch8637 2 года назад +4

    From the way this movie was shot in Black & White, it feels like this movie came out in the mid 60s, though it was almost the 80s, at the time. It was one of Woody Allen's finest movies of the decade, and the music takes me back to those vintage United Airlines commercials, too.

  • @carlalfaroh
    @carlalfaroh 2 года назад +7

    One of the best movie intros of all time.

  • @GGdeTOURS37
    @GGdeTOURS37 6 лет назад +28

    NEW YORK was his town ... And it always would be!

  • @seanpanigel5494
    @seanpanigel5494 3 года назад +4

    Now that is some amazing shots of New York

  • @VasileiosXenis
    @VasileiosXenis 6 месяцев назад +3

    It has been said again before, BUT, NOTHING SCREAMS NEW YORK CITY more than Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue!

  • @KR-ki9hw
    @KR-ki9hw Год назад +1

    He makes NYC real. This film showed why I loved about that city. Just it. The streets, the great diners to duck in to be warm, and eat. Just walking, and turn a corner, and ordinary things are captivating.

  • @aztro4010
    @aztro4010 2 года назад +5

    I swear this film has the "La Dolce Vita" vibe in it, in terms of cinematography and the way the film looks.

  • @KidFresh71
    @KidFresh71 Год назад +3

    What an opening to a movie! Captures the multi-faceted essence of NYC, a nearly impossible task; well done.

  • @DaveFisher-cq2dr
    @DaveFisher-cq2dr 10 месяцев назад +1

    beautiful music, and beautiful cinematography for such a beautiful city, George Gershwin would have been proud if he had lived to see this film with his music in it

  • @pinballwizard57
    @pinballwizard57 6 лет назад +56

    Why did you cut off the big finish!? There was like 5 second left of the sequence!

    • @streppegna4503
      @streppegna4503 5 лет назад +6

      Yeah... Movieclips tends to do that a lot.

    • @pariseyes
      @pariseyes 5 лет назад +1

      stupid indeed, coitus interuptus !!

    • @Dane_Youssef
      @Dane_Youssef 5 лет назад

      So you'll pay for the movie. Cruel, I know. But...

    • @pariseyes
      @pariseyes 5 лет назад +3

      @@Dane_Youssef I do have the movie, we are talking about this excerpt right now, not of the movie.

  • @jamesthepassionateyoutuber9059
    @jamesthepassionateyoutuber9059 3 года назад +4

    New York is my favorite city, it’s such an amazing place!

  • @tribudeuno
    @tribudeuno 4 года назад +14

    Cut the clip way too short, needed to wait until the Gershwin final cadence. If you haven't noticed, Gershwin is one of the few things that still justifies the USA. Don't be heavy handed with him...

  • @bdflatlander
    @bdflatlander 11 месяцев назад +2

    The woman I took to see this movie was from New York City (we saw the movie in Los Angeles) and she started crying during this scene because it did such an effective job in portraying the beauty and character of the city.

  • @andreabertozzi8199
    @andreabertozzi8199 3 года назад +8

    best intro scene of a movie E V E R

  • @laadidaouiomar1078
    @laadidaouiomar1078 7 лет назад +67

    Allen's filmography is a wonder, it deserves much more recognition than it does nowadays.

    • @tatehildyard5332
      @tatehildyard5332 7 лет назад +15

      Too bad most people nowadays just go "Ew, Woody Allen, he likes little girls!". But I will admit his Amazon series sucked.

    • @laadidaouiomar1078
      @laadidaouiomar1078 7 лет назад +14

      He made movies constantly, and I struggle to find a bad allen film, I've watched a lot of them and I've never being disappointed so far, even if I do, I'd tolerate it, the man made movies every year for the last 3 decades, what a legend

    • @joel8583
      @joel8583 6 лет назад

      No one else like him, no one!

    • @oscartovar9990
      @oscartovar9990 6 лет назад

      Joe L is he still going at it?

    • @hamburg1306
      @hamburg1306 6 лет назад +2

      The great Gordon Willis is the cinematographer for ‘Manhattan’

  • @JustSomeCanadianGuy
    @JustSomeCanadianGuy Год назад +2

    It’s such a stunning opening.
    And an odd one because the movie has nothing at all to do with the city itself beyond this opening. 😄

  • @hemming57
    @hemming57 3 года назад +3

    Best movie opening ever!

  • @gmar7836
    @gmar7836 Год назад +1

    I was playing this song in a rented 30 foot long U-Haul box truck driving on the PCH on a very windy day in California making my way up to San Maria, by myself in 2007. With the way, the wind was whipping with the Pacific Ocean on my left I could feel the truck sway, this song was very fitting

  • @GrantSchinto
    @GrantSchinto 3 года назад +4

    This may be the most pitch perfect (literally as well as figuratively) film opening of all time.

  • @good393-t2k
    @good393-t2k 4 года назад +2

    Woody allen's breathing is best character in this movie

  • @timmyteaching
    @timmyteaching 7 месяцев назад

    And then the closing of this movie absolutely kills, too. Prime Woody.

  • @TheZoidberg312
    @TheZoidberg312 Год назад +1

    A love letter to his town. ❤

  • @lucarango7540
    @lucarango7540 5 лет назад +3

    La migliore scena iniziale della storia del cinema

  • @MaximilienRobespierre1
    @MaximilienRobespierre1 7 месяцев назад +1

    Is that the WTC at 0:32 ?

  • @jenkinsfamily2229
    @jenkinsfamily2229 4 года назад +2

    Ooh yeah, that clarinet gliss.

  • @williamgregory1848
    @williamgregory1848 23 дня назад

    I’m not sure any director has ever shot New York City more beautifully as Woody Allen has throughout his career. Manhattan is Woody Allen’s heartfelt ode to New York City and offers an idealized view of his hometown. Shot in gorgeous black and white, the film opens with a stunning montage of New York City set to the strains of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue.” The film is set in the late seventies, an era of New York City that has become more beloved and romanticized the further we move away from it. But unlike Martin Scorsese’s gritty Mean Streets or Sidney Lumet’s galvanizing Serpico, Woody Allen’s Manhattan combines modern, bittersweet humor and timeless romanticism with unerring grace. The film is full of romantic imagery of New York, as it captures portraits of everyday city life from a bygone era. Manhattan is Allen’s attempt to make sense of his relationship with the city and the difficulty of modern living. In my opinion, this is his best film.

  • @GGdeTOURS37
    @GGdeTOURS37 6 лет назад +12

    Chapter one: "I adored MANHATTAN OF WOODY ALLEN" ... ;) ... (GG from France)

  • @fcbchris7
    @fcbchris7 Год назад +1

    What a way to start a movie

  • @JMoruzzi
    @JMoruzzi Год назад +2

    What a ridiculous point to cut it at!

  • @davidleethompsoniii8263
    @davidleethompsoniii8263 4 года назад +3

    This is soooooooo
    Woody Allen.

  • @AnthonyPOSSO-yg9gx
    @AnthonyPOSSO-yg9gx Год назад +1

    Phone boothes all a part of it too ( how busy they were and line to make a call 📞 but it wat just how it was , I loved it anyways👍🙌☎️📞 😂😮😊

  • @melvinsamudio6874
    @melvinsamudio6874 4 года назад +4

    So he basically describes New york from all points of views 2 minutes...

  • @blondewriter99
    @blondewriter99 6 месяцев назад +1

    the plot of the middle-aged man dating the high school girl didn't age that well but still a very good movie!

  • @gmar7836
    @gmar7836 Год назад +1

    Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin. You can’t go wrong.

  • @corrupt_insomniac
    @corrupt_insomniac 5 лет назад +8

    This scene alone made me wanna go to New York

  • @MCO18
    @MCO18 4 года назад +12

    I’d love to visit 1970s New York in all its gritty and polluted splendor. The city is more like Disneyland now.

    • @lapislazuli5035
      @lapislazuli5035 2 года назад +3

      Trust me, you really wouldn't. You wouldn't want to be surrounded by crime and lowlifes.

    • @ramencurry6672
      @ramencurry6672 Год назад

      I can see your point. However, NYC is still good. I visited St. Louis, Memphis and other American cities and they basically have turned into ghost towns. At least NYC is still lively and not emptied like many other American cities

  • @mizofan
    @mizofan 5 лет назад +5

    Marvellous opening

  • @TheLaidOffFounder
    @TheLaidOffFounder Год назад +1

    Genius.

  • @shadrach6299
    @shadrach6299 2 года назад +2

    I love Rhapsody in Blue

  • @just_cade
    @just_cade 4 года назад +3

    I love you New York ❤

  • @astrologer74
    @astrologer74 4 года назад +3

    Nice Memories.......

  • @RobMyself
    @RobMyself 10 дней назад

    Art.
    This is art.

  • @dagwort
    @dagwort 4 месяца назад +1

    Anyone know where that school is (if it is a school) at 1:15?

  • @ILoveDavidLynch
    @ILoveDavidLynch 3 года назад

    The way his films start just pull you in

  • @gerryleb8575
    @gerryleb8575 9 месяцев назад

    A wonderful film. And, a darn good excuse to put Mariel Hemingway on the screen, because she's so lovely.

  • @TheatreCritic
    @TheatreCritic 4 месяца назад +1

    Not his greatest film. But what an opening !!

  • @donuts7839
    @donuts7839 3 года назад

    one of the best opening ever

  • @Stranger_In_The_Alps
    @Stranger_In_The_Alps 2 года назад +1

    Joe Rogan and Sam Morrill brought me here

  • @RobMyself
    @RobMyself 10 дней назад

    So great, but you could have waited two seconds before you cut it off

  • @actionmoviefrea
    @actionmoviefrea 2 года назад +2

    HOW could you end it there . . . ?!

  • @MichaelSmith-or8kt
    @MichaelSmith-or8kt 3 года назад +3

    Always wanted to play this in slow motion on a big hd screen at a party. Sort of like a slowly moving black and white painting. With the volume turned down of course.

  • @billbergendahl2629
    @billbergendahl2629 3 года назад +2

    I saw this movie in 1979.

  • @jobob47
    @jobob47 2 года назад

    a classic woody opening

  • @keirstenwahlberg6476
    @keirstenwahlberg6476 3 года назад

    Sounds like me when I am trying to find the right words.

  • @charlesedwardandrewlincoln8181

    What an intro!

  • @midcenturymoldy
    @midcenturymoldy 2 года назад +1

    Too bad this clip cuts off the very beginning and the very end.

  • @gaguy1967
    @gaguy1967 5 лет назад +2

    Come fly Chicago's hometown airline, come fly the friendly skies

    • @jerrythemouse28
      @jerrythemouse28 Год назад

      Let's fly the friendly skies together!

    • @jerrythemouse28
      @jerrythemouse28 Год назад

      At United, we're connecting people. Uniting the world and doing it safely. From all of us, we sincerely thank you and enjoy your flight!

  • @fasteddie4107
    @fasteddie4107 Год назад +1

    We bought this movie used at a local music store. The opening scenes of Manhattan were captivating, but then within the first 10 minutes of the movie, we learned that a main character is a child rapist and his friend is a cheater. We took it back.

  • @actioncom2748
    @actioncom2748 Год назад +1

    Gershwin seems it was made for movies.

  • @benllvfroggo
    @benllvfroggo 3 года назад +1

    IM GONNA CRY

  • @HelenGynell
    @HelenGynell Год назад

    HOW COULD YOU CUT IT THERE > > > ?!?!?

  • @Aramizito
    @Aramizito 2 года назад

    Playing tribute to George Gershwin ❤🎉

  • @jerrythemouse28
    @jerrythemouse28 Год назад

    At United, we're connecting people. Uniting the world and doing it safely. From all of us, we sincerely thank you and enjoy your flight!

  • @Veers31
    @Veers31 10 месяцев назад +1

    Woody Allen sucks but this is one of the great movie openings, thanks Gordon Willis

  • @tracyfortune3297
    @tracyfortune3297 Год назад +3

    Best director, and best film. Such a shame how the corrupt, criminal, and ineffectual NYC gov./gov't is destroying the city to the point that it's nearly all shut down and boarded up. I was there in the late '70s. Looking at the situation now, it looks like a decaying heap. So incredibly sad. :(

    • @user-or6yn8pm3c
      @user-or6yn8pm3c Год назад

      The msm narrative says the current NYC was better than what existed in the 70s and 80s I disagree. The current city has no personality or soul.

    • @blondewriter99
      @blondewriter99 6 месяцев назад

      I live here it's not remotely shut down or boarded up. Weirdo.

  • @EASYTIGER10
    @EASYTIGER10 6 лет назад +1

    Aww nahk id awf and get me a bagel and a kwarfee

  • @LazlosPlane
    @LazlosPlane Год назад

    WTF???? HOW CAN YOU CUT OUT THE FINAL FEW SECONDS, THE TREMENDOUS CLIMAX? ARE YOU INSANE?

  • @eddiemelara2260
    @eddiemelara2260 5 лет назад +2

    My town

  • @dylandevilliers4895
    @dylandevilliers4895 3 года назад

    Best opening sequence to a movie?

  • @hippiecheezburger5457
    @hippiecheezburger5457 4 года назад +2

    Can someone tell me the meaning of this film? He broke it off with his underaged girlfriend for his buddy’s mistress but it doesn’t last and the underage girl is totally in the right for leaving him for London and he’s left alone

    • @leocvalle
      @leocvalle 4 года назад +9

      That's the exactly meaning! Life and relationships don't make much sense, we are all irrational and desperate for love and confort but we are attracted really by what we can't get.

    • @daveorme1683
      @daveorme1683 2 года назад

      The egg joke at the end of Annie Hall. Funny, but it sums it up.

    • @hippiecheezburger5457
      @hippiecheezburger5457 5 месяцев назад

      @@leocvallewhat an artist honestly he made movies like people in the decades before him wrote novels. Woody Allen makes like modern 70s and 80s versions of stuff like the great gatsby

  • @peterthomas4378
    @peterthomas4378 2 года назад

    How the mighty have fallen.

  • @rolandhector510
    @rolandhector510 21 день назад

    20 years later I moved to new york

  • @yacovlevi
    @yacovlevi Год назад

    If I had to leave New York City, I would leave America.

  • @rossanarossini9002
    @rossanarossini9002 5 лет назад +2

    Struggente eterno Gershwin

  • @kimmoore1119
    @kimmoore1119 3 года назад

    Why is the camera black and white?

  • @raquelalcala5678
    @raquelalcala5678 4 года назад

    Tweet that

  • @C.A._Old
    @C.A._Old 9 месяцев назад

    *i sad about Anti-Nuke Rally Outside World Trade Center was forgotten late 70s...*

  • @AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada
    @AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada 2 года назад

    Merowwe new York is miiiii town how about meeeee

  • @rindanefikirleriolan1flano664
    @rindanefikirleriolan1flano664 2 года назад

    Gershwin, a Jewish look to jazz...
    Allen, a Jewish look to NYC jam...

  • @herwoonghost8535
    @herwoonghost8535 2 года назад

    Collège ronsard en force

  • @Tinydancer2009
    @Tinydancer2009 6 лет назад +1

    I'll make IT soon
    Rio, 8/11/2018

    • @joeylantis22
      @joeylantis22 3 года назад +1

      Did you make it?

    • @jazzywayz9773
      @jazzywayz9773 2 года назад

      If you can make it there, you're gonna make it anywhere