Mondays with Marty: New York, New York (1977)
- Mon, Apr 28, 2025
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Mon, Apr 28 @ 7:30 pm: 4K Presentation
Run Time: 155 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1977
Country: United States
Language: English
Mondays with Marty
The ultimate Scorsese celebration returns for our 2025 Spring Season.
About the film:
Made a year after the wildly gritty Taxi Driver, and under an allegedly chaotic production, Scorsese’s homage to and deconstruction of the classic Hollywood musical casts Liza Minnelli as a 1940s singer whose rocky relationship with Robert De Niro’s temperamental jazz saxophonist sputters as her career ascends. The director channels that Dream Factory feeling through patently artificial soundstage sets and showstopping, movie-within-a-movie musical numbers. But it’s the raw emotional realism—embodied by Minnelli and De Niro’s vivid, intense performances—that makes this so much more than a nostalgia trip. The high point, of course, is Minnelli belting Kander and Ebb’s iconic title song (written for the movie!): a moment that feels as iconic as the MGM warhorses Scorsese clearly loves.
The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. From that moment on, their relationship grows into love as they struggle with their careers and aim for the top.
About the filmmaker:
Martin Scorsese is an influential and award-winning American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades and honors, including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”—Mean Streets (1973), his Palme d’Or winner Taxi Driver (1976), concert documentary The Last Waltz (1978), Raging Bull (1980), and Goodfellas (1990). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, Scorsese founded three nonprofit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007, and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.
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