New York Stories (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | New York stories |
| Original title | New York Stories |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Martin Scorsese ( life studies ) Francis Ford Coppola ( life without Zoe ) Woody Allen ( Oedipus at a loss ) |
| script |
Richard Price ( life studies ) ; Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola ( Life Without Zoe ) ; Woody Allen ( Oedipus at a loss ) |
| production |
Barbara De Fina ( life studies ) ; Fred Fuchs , Fred Roos ( Life Without Zoe ) ; Robert Greenhut ( Oedipus at a loss ) |
| music | various songs ( life studies ) ; Carmine Coppola , Kid Creole ( Life Without Zoe ) ; various songs ( Oedipus at a loss ) |
| camera |
Néstor Almendros ( life studies ) ; Vittorio Storaro ( Life without Zoe ) ; Sven Nykvist ( Oedipus at a loss ) |
| cut |
Thelma Schoonmaker ( life studies ) ; Barry Malkin ( Life Without Zoe ) ; Susan E. Morse ( Oedipus at a loss ) |
| occupation | |
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Life studies
Life without Zoe
Oedipus perplexed
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New York Stories is an American film from 1989. The film, directed by three directors , consists of three separate episodes . The first life study comes from Martin Scorsese and describes how a painter fights the attempt of his muse to cut himself off from him. In the second episode Life without Zoe by Francis Ford Coppola , the young Zoe tries to match their parents again. In the third story Oedipus perplexed by Woody Allen man fights against the engaging nature of his mother.
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Life Studies ( Life Lessons )
The self-centered and seedy but successful New York painter Lionel Dobie has a creative crisis ahead of his upcoming exhibition . He curls himself up in his studio and also gets rid of his agents . He later picks up his young assistant and muse Paulette from the airport, who tells him that she doesn't want to come back to him. Only when he promises her not to have to sleep with him anymore does she agree to stay and he can work again. However, he is still addicted to it and finds it difficult to keep his urges under control. He can only distract himself with loud music and work. Paulette, on the other hand, who also works as a painter, is dissatisfied with herself and her art. In addition, Lionel does not respect her as an artist. In addition, she is unhappily in love with the actor and performance artist Gregory.
At a potential patron's party , Paulette flirts with a young artist, which makes Lionel jealous. He insults her and snubs her with a derogatory remark about her work. Nevertheless, or perhaps because of it, she spends the night with the young artist in Lionel's studio apartment.
The next evening Paulette and Lionel attend an event by Gregory in a disused subway shaft. Lionel urges her to approach Gregory, which she does. However, the actor hardly pays attention to her, whereupon she accuses Lionel of having brought her into this situation. She decides to leave Lionel for good. They cannot hold back his assurances that they will respect them more from now on. She knows that the aging artist sees only himself and is unable to maintain an equal relationship.
At the vernissage of his pictures, where Lionel is once again celebrated from all sides, he chooses a new muse in the person of a waitress who is also a painter.
Life Without Zoe ( Life without Zoe )
The twelve year old Zoe, intelligent and independent but spoiled daughter of the musician Claudio and the photographer Charlotte, lives alone in a large luxury hotel because her parents travel a lot. Her life is like a fairy tale , she has her own personal butler , and the other employees of the hotel also take care of the permanent resident. Their parents are separated because, although they love one another, they are, in a childlike way, unable to live together and care for one another as a family.
At school she befriends her new classmate, Abu, a nephew of a wealthy Arab sheikh . After spending the day with Abu, Zoe comes back to the hotel in the evening when the hotel is being attacked. However, she is able to save an envelope from her father's hotel locker that contains a valuable diamond earring that belongs to Abu's aunt, which Zoe's father once presented. The earring is something of a national shrine in Abu's homeland and now Claudio is shadowed by the sheikh's captors. Zoe decides to bail her father out.
At a glamorous children's costume party in Abu's villa, Zoe meets his aunt, Princess Soroya, to whom she returns the earring. So she decides to help her parents even further and to get them to live together again, even though she enjoys the pleasant and luxurious life alone in the hotel. But Zoe knows that she is the only one in the family who can think sensibly and so she can finally persuade her mother to accompany her father on a tour of Europe.
Oedipus at a loss ( Oedipus wrecks )
Fifty-year-old lawyer Sheldon Mills suffers from his overpowering mother. While she constantly criticizes him, she is friendly and polite to Sheldon's fiancé Lisa and believes that Lisa is too good for her son. To make matters worse, she visits her son in his office and embarrasses him in front of his colleagues. Lisa, however, has no eye for her fiancé's difficulties. Sheldon admits to his analyst that he would be happy if his mother disappeared.
During a magic show, in which the mother is brought on stage by the artist and put in a box, Sheldon is amused at the idea that his mother could be stabbed by the sabers that the magician puts in the box. But after finishing the trick, she does not appear again for mysterious reasons. Nobody has an explanation for it and even after days it remains gone. Although Sheldon might be happy, he is initially dejected. Only after a while does he feel free.
One day, however, Sheldon thinks of no evil, his mother appears as a gigantic superego in the New York sky and reproaches him again. To make matters worse, she is visible to all passers-by, starts arguing with them and exposes her son in front of everyone. She even makes it onto the TV news, where TV viewers learn that Sheldon's former name was Millstein and that she was a bedwetter. From now on Sheldon has no quiet minute and is teased by total strangers. As a result, he gets into increasing conflicts with Lisa, as she is now also being verbally abused by his mother.
His analyst suggests that he visit the clairvoyant Treva in order to deal with the phenomenon using occult methods. She tries to master the matter with all sorts of incantation rites, but in vain. However, the two fall in love. Lisa leaves Sheldon and he becomes engaged to Treva. Eventually Treva also finds his mother's approval and she returns to earth.
Others
- In this film, Kirsten Dunst made her (albeit unnamed) film debut.
- Thelma Carpenter was seen in the episode Life Without Zoe in the last film role before her death.
- The paintings made by Nick Nolte in the film were by Chuck Connelly .
Awards
- Julie Kavner won the American Comedy Awards for Best Comedy Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture .
Reviews
“Scorsese's successful study of an egocentric artist comes up with a furious camera work, Coppola's family film indulges in décor and details, but remains non-binding, and Woody Allen's variation of the Jewish urban neurotic is funny but offers nothing new. With the exception of the first episode, nothing more than well-kept entertainment that only has a certain appeal for those interested in the work of the three directors. "
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- ^ New York Stories at imdb.com Paintings in Film
- ^ New York Stories. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 25, 2017 .
Web links
- New York Stories in the Internet Movie Database (English)