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» For other uses, see New York, New York (disambiguation).
New York, New York is a
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.
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. 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'd 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's an experiment that didn't 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 didn't 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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