MANHATTAN will be screening for free in Coney Island on July 16
MANHATTAN (Woody Allen, 1979)
3059 West 12th St, on the beach at Coney Island
Monday, July 16, free, music and dancing 7:00, film 8:30
rooftopfilms.com
Woody Allen’s Manhattan opens with one of the most beautiful tributes ever made to the Big Apple, a lovingly filmed black-and-white architectural tour set to the beautiful sounds of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” As Allen’s character says at the beginning, “He adored New York City, he idolized it all out of proportion — no, make that, he romanticized it all out of proportion.” Once again collaborating with screenwriter Marshall Brickman, master cinematographer Gordon Willis, and Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton, Allen’s tale of a nebbishy forty-two-year-old two-time divorcee who takes up with a seventeen-year-old ingénue (Mariel Hemingway) is both hysterically funny and romantically poignant, filled with classic dialogue (Yale: “You think you’re God.” Isaac: “I gotta model myself after someone.”) and iconic shots of city landmarks. Manhattan is being screened in an iconic landmark itself, Coney Island, on July 16, a free presentation of Rooftop Films, with music and dancing at 7:00, followed by the film at 8:30. Future free Rooftop Films screenings include a “Coming Home” shorts program with Shenandoah and the Night at MetroTech on July 20, The Muppets in Coney Island on July 23, Peter Nicks’s The Waiting Room in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza on July 24, Nina Conti’s Her Master’s Voice and a pair of shorts in Socrates Sculpture Park on July 25, and The Natural in Richmond County Bank Ballpark on July 26.