New York Stories
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| Directed by |
Woody Allen Francis Ford Coppola Martin Scorsese |
| Produced by |
Barbara De Fina Fred Fuchs Robert Greenhut Charles H. Joffe Jack Rollins Fred Roos |
| Written by | Woody Allen Francis Ford Coppola Sofia Coppola Richard Price |
| Starring | |
| Music by |
Kid Creole Carmine Coppola |
| Cinematography |
Sven Nykvist Vittorio Storaro Néstor Almendros |
| Edited by |
Susan E. Morse Barry Malkin Thelma Schoonmaker |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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124 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $10.7 million |
New York Stories is a 1989 anthology film; it consists of three shorts with the central theme being New York City.
The first is Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Richard Price and starring Nick Nolte. The second is Life Without Zoë, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Coppola with his daughter, Sofia Coppola. The last is Oedipus Wrecks, directed, written by and starring Woody Allen.
The film was screened out of competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
One actor, Paul Herman, has a bit part in each segment.
The trailer contains three shots from the "Zoe" segment not in the actual film: (1) Zoe ordering room service, (2) A boy slams a pie in a girl's face at a party, and (3) A different angle of Zoe's parents kissing right before Zoe yells "cut". The trailer can be found on the 2012 Blu-ray edition.
In a story loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short novel The Gambler, Nick Nolte plays Lionel Dobie, an acclaimed abstract artist who finds himself unable to paint during the days before the scheduled beginning of a major gallery exhibition of his new work. Rosanna Arquette is Paulette, his apprentice/assistant and former lover. Lionel is still infatuated with her, but Paulette wants only his tutelage, which makes things difficult since they live in the same studio-loft. Paulette dates other people, including a performance artist (Steve Buscemi) and a painter (Jesse Borrego).
These deliberate provocations on Paulette's part make Lionel insanely jealous — and fuel his creativity. Lionel and Paulette, it becomes clear, have been using each other: Lionel using her sexually, Paulette using him as a means of entry to the higher spheres of the New York social and art scene. Paulette wants to give up and go home to her parents but Lionel persuades her to stay because New York is where a painter needs to be.
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