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A Manhattan Knight is a 1920 American silent mystery film directed by George Beranger and starring George Walsh, Virginia Hammond, William H. Budd, Warren Cook, Jack Hopkins, and William T. Hayes. It is based on the 1911 novel Find the Woman by Gelett Burgess. [1] The film was released by Fox Film Corporation in March 1920.
- Manhattan Night
English. Manhattan Night is a 2016 American crime thriller...
- Manhattan (1979 film)
Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film...
- Manhattan Night
English. Manhattan Night is a 2016 American crime thriller film [2] written and directed by Brian DeCubellis. It is based on the 1996 novel Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison. The film stars Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Jennifer Beals and Campbell Scott. The film was released on May 20, 2016, by Lionsgate Premiere .
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The film opens with a montage of images of Manhattan and other parts of New York City accompanied by George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, with Isaac Davis narrating drafts of an introduction to a book about a man who loves the city. Isaac is a twice-divorced, 42-year-old television comedy writer who quits his boring job. He is dating Tracy, a 17-yea...
Development
According to Allen, the idea for Manhattan originated from his love of Gershwin's music. He was listening to one of the composer's albums of overtures and thought, "this would be a beautiful thing to make ... a movie in black and white ... a romantic movie." Allen has said that Manhattan was "like a mixture of what I was trying to do with Annie Hall and Interiors"and that it deals with the problem of people trying to live a decent existence in an essentially junk-obsessed contemporary culture...
Filming
Allen talked to cinematographer Gordon Willis about how fun it would be to shoot the film in black and white, Panavision aspect ratio (2.35:1) because it would give "a great look at New York City, which is sort of one of the characters in the film". Allen decided to shoot his film in black and white because that was how he remembered it from when he was small. "Maybe it's a reminiscence from old photographs, films, books and all that. But that's how I remember New York."The film was shot on l...
Music
All titles of the soundtrack were compositions by George Gershwin. They were performed by the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and the Buffalo Philharmonic under Michael Tilson Thomas. 1. New York Philharmonic 1.1. Rhapsody in Blue 1.2. "Love is Sweeping the Country" 1.3. "Land of the Gay Caballero" 1.4. "Sweet and Low Down" 1.5. "I've Got a Crush on You" 1.6. "Do-Do-Do" 1.7. "'S Wonderful" 1.8. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" 1.9. "Strike Up the Band" 1.10. "Embraceable You" 2. Buffalo Philharmon...
Manhattan premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on April 18, 1979. It opened in 27 theaters in New York City, Los Angeles and Toronto on April 25, then expanded to an additional 256 theaters nationwide on May 4, before adding a further 117 screens a week later. The film was shown out of competition at the 1979 Cannes Film Festivalin Ma...
Box office
The film grossed $485,734 ($16,749 per screen) in its opening weekend and after expanding nationwide, it had grossed $3.5 million after 13 days. It grossed $39.9 million in its entire run in the United States and Canada, making the film the 17th highest-grossing picture of the year. Adjusted for ticket price inflation (as of 2017), Manhattan grossed $141,484,800, making it Allen's second biggest box-office hit, following 1977's Annie Hall.
Critical response
The film received largely positive reviews and holds a rating of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 68 critics, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's consensus reads, "One of Woody Allen's early classics, Manhattancombines modern, bittersweet humor and timeless romanticism with unerring grace." Gary Arnold, in The Washington Post, wrote: "Manhattan has comic integrity in part because Allen is now making jokes at the expense of his own parochialism. There's no opportunity t...
Accolades
New York Film Critics Circle named Allen best director for Manhattan. The National Society of Film Critics also named Allen best director along with Robert Benton, who directed Kramer vs. Kramer. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Mariel Hemingway) and Best Original Screenplay (Allen and Marshall Brickman). It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the César Award for Best Foreign Film. In Empire magazine's 2008 poll of the 500 greatest movies ever made...
Allen wanted to preserve Willis's compositions and insisted that the aspect ratio be preserved when the film was released on video (an unusual request in a time when widescreen films were normally panned and scanned for TV and video release). As a result, all copies of the film on video (and most television broadcasts) were letterboxed, originally ...
Manhattan's screenplay was performed in front of a live audience at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 15, 2012, as part of Jason Reitman's Live Read series. Actors read the script, narrowed to six speaking parts, and still photographs from the movie were projected behind them. The cast included Stephen Merchant as Isaac Davis, Olivia...
Baxter, John (1999). Woody Allen: A Biography (Revised paperback ed.). London: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-638794-2.Bjorkman, Stig (1995) [1993]. Woody Allen on Woody Allen. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-17335-7.Brode, Douglas (1987). Woody Allen: His Films and Career. Citadel Press.Fox, Julian (1996). Woody: Movies from Manhattan. Overlook.Manhattan at IMDbManhattan at AllMovieManhattan at Box Office MojoManhattan at Rotten TomatoesMay 20, 2016 · Manhattan Night: Directed by Brian DeCubellis. With Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Beals. A reporter becomes involved with a mysterious woman while investigating her late husband's death.
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A Knight's Tale is a 2001 American medieval action comedy film written, co-produced and directed by Brian Helgeland. The film stars Heath Ledger as William Thatcher, a peasant squire who poses as a knight and competes in tournaments, winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures as Edward the Black Prince ( James Purefoy ) and Geoffrey Chaucer ( Paul Bettany ).
The Green Knight grossed $17.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $1.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $18.8 million. [4] [3] In the United States and Canada, The Green Knight was released alongside Jungle Cruise and Stillwater , and was projected to gross around $4 million from 2,790 theaters in its opening weekend. [31]
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John Fenton visits a fortune-teller to gain insight into his parentage. While there, a police raid occurs, and he climbs the fire escape to the apartment above. There he finds a girl standing over the body of a young man who has just shot himself. The girl, Belle Charmion, explains that her half brother, Gordon Brewster, had stolen some jewels from their uncle and, fearing that the police ...
