New York Stories

Three top directors (Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen) helm three separate stories about denizens of the Big Apple. Scorsese, still in "After Hours" mode, works quite well with handsome, raffish Nick Nolte, playing an obsessive painter; Coppola, working from... Full review

You might want to fast-forward to the last of these three short films, "Oedipus Wrecks" by Woody Allen; it's absolutely priceless!... Full review

New York Stories is another anthology film that I was suckered into because of the credentials. Other anthology films that I've seen, like Four Rooms, have not been very good despite the amazing credentials. I haven't been a fan of... Full review

The anthology that include three short films that take place in New York City was made by three great American directors, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Francis Ford Coppola."Life Lessons" directed by Martin Scorsese, literally took my breath away -... Full review

"New York Stories" tells three tales of the Big Apple. Martin Scorsese's "Life Lessons" shows artist Lionel Dobie (Nick Nolte) trying to assess his relationships with people, Francis Ford Coppola's "Life without Zoe" shows a very mature girl, and Woody... Full review

Three very talented directors all making short stories to be put in a single movie. Can't fail. right? Sadly no. The first story is by Martin Scorsese, the best of the three directors, and is about an artist, Nick Nolte, an... Full review

I'd seen NEW YORK STORIES (NYS) before on cable, and I'd enjoyed the trilogy of short films by Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Woody Allen. However, I hadn't been aware that a teenage Adrien Brody was supposed to be... Full review

Three stories, Scorcesse/Woody Allen/& Francis Ford Copola...Martin Scorcesse's dealt with cosmopolitan talent by way of artistic integrity, a piece of delicate Lalique is less fragile than the characters in this episode...Nick Nolte needs to come to grips with it..the simple... Full review

You can't really watch NEW YORK STORIES and comment on thefilm as a whole, because, much like the three directors involved,the three stories that make up the whole are so different and havespecific value in their own right. What you... Full review

**1/2 of****Three completely different short stories told by three of Hollywood's most influential and profilic directors in the most exciting and mythical city on earth. Seems like a shoe in doesn't it? Well almost. Looking forward as I did to... Full review

As such, the film succeeds in a way the filmmakers could never have planned. ... Full Review

Some critics praised the film, others dismissed its self-hating "Woody Allen.....Others drew parallels between the film and Allen's scandalous personal life.....It may be the last great film he'll ever make.....Allen decided to indulge his passion for death with this dirge about a depressed director whose mother (Uta Hagen) goes insane....Though he was no Gordon Willis, David M. Walsh creates classic comedic imagery in a deceptively nuanced style and one can't think.... ... Full Review

New York Stories" is rated PG, for profanity....Mae Questel as Allen's mother and Julie Kavner as a looney psychic are thoroughly delightful.....Despite the presence of Scorsese's fascinating style, it never intrudes upon the story, giving the entire film a feeling of effortlessness.....But the film is really about Nolte's artistic passions, which seem to thrive on personal pain.....The problem with this story is that it goes nowhere..... ... Full Review

But the film is really about Nolte's artistic passions, which seem to thrive on personal pain.....New York Stories" is rated PG, for profanity....Mae Questel as Allen's mother and Julie Kavner as a looney psychic are thoroughly delightful.....Despite the presence of Scorsese's fascinating style, it never intrudes upon the story, giving the entire film a feeling of effortlessness.....Despite charming performers and some nice moments, this is a flat, lifeless effort and rather a disappointment after Scorcese' ... Full Review

Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorcese, is a Dostoevsky-like tale of the rarefied Art World, with Nick Nolte as a self-indulgent abstractionist who loves Rosanna Arquette, but can't bring himself to lie to her about her negligible artistic talents. ... Full Review

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