New York, New York (film)
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| Directed by | Martin Scorsese |
| Produced by | Robert Chartoff Irwin Winkler |
| Written by | Earl Mac Rauch Mardik Martin |
| Starring | Liza Minnelli Robert De Niro |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | June 21, 1977 |
| Running time | 163 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14,000,000 USD (estimated) |
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New York, New York is a film directed by Martin Scorsese, released in 1977. It is a musical tribute to Scorsese's home town of New York City, and stars Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli as a pair of musicians and lovers.
[edit] Style and responses
Made after Scorsese's successful Taxi Driver, the film was a box-office failure. Its budget was $14 million, a large figure at the time, but it grossed only $13 million at the box-office and the disappointing reception drove Scorsese into depression and drugs.[citation needed] In his introduction to the DVD edition of the film, released in 2005, Scorsese explains that he intended the film as a break from the gritty realism that he had become famous for, and sees it as an homage to the musical films of Classical Hollywood. For this reason, he designed the film's sets and storyline to be deliberately artificial-looking. He acknowledges that it is an experiment that did not please everyone.
[edit] Re-Releases
When the film was originally released it had a running time of 153 minutes. The box-office failure of the film prompted United Artists to cut the film down to 136 minutes. It was then re-released in 1981 with the deleted scenes restored, including the musical number "Happy Endings", which did not appear in the original release. The total running time of the DVD edition is 163 minutes.
The theme song of the film, "New York, New York," found its own success when famed singer Frank Sinatra recorded a cover version of the song in 1979. The song was a popular success, and Sinatra's version has become closely associated with the City of New York.
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