NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Director's Cut
Martin Scorsese's complex meta-musical follows a pair of musicians who meet cute just as WWII ends and embark on a long and stormy love affair: Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro), a jazz saxophonist maniacally devoted to making his music and temperamentally unfit for compromise, and Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli), a gifted singer who realizes tremendous popular success only after she leaves the domineering and abusive Jimmy. The film features songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb, alongside many jazz standards, and a dazzling performance by Minnelli, by turns vulnerable and resilient, belting out bravura renditions of the film's famous theme song (a worldwide hit after Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1980), the stirring "But the World Goes 'Round" and the showstopping musical-within-a-musical "Happy Endings" — restored to its full, 11-minute length in the director's cut. DIR Martin Scorsese; SCR Earl Mac Rauch, Mardik Martin; PROD Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler. U.S., 1977, color, 163 min. RATED PG
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Run Time: 163 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, August 11, 2019
Genre: Music, drama
