New York, New York
Directed by	Martin Scorsese
Produced by	Robert Chartoff Irwin Winkler
Written by	Earl Mac Rauch Mardik Martin
Starring	Liza Minnelli Robert De Niro
Cinematography	László Kovács
Editing by	Bert Lovitt David Ramirez Tom Rolf
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	June 21, 1977
Running time	155 Min Edited 163 Min Director's Cut
Language	English
Budget	$14,000,000 USD (estimated)
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New York, New York is a musical-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, released in 1977. It is a musical tribute, featuring new songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb as well as standards, to Scorsese's home town of New York City, and stars Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli as a pair of musicians and lovers.

Plot

The story is set in 1945 on V-J Day, the day World War II finally ends. A celebration in New York City is thrown. While there Jimmy Doyle (De Niro), a selfish and smooth-talking saxophone player, meets Francine Evans (Minnelli), a small-time singer. From that moment on, their relationship grows into love. They fall in love, have a son, and both find success. Doyle records a song on his saxophone which tops the charts, and Evans becomes a overnight sensation after singing Theme from New York, New York.

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.^[1] 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.

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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References

1. ^ Behind the screen: Minelli on New York New York