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New York, New York
English | Subtitles : No | 2:36:30 | 640 x 400 | FPS : 25 | Nero Digital Standard MPEG4 | 1411 Kb/s | 44100 Hz | 1.4 Giga | RapidShare.com
Melodrama / Romance
The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. From that moment on, their relationship grows into love as they struggle with their careers and aim for the top.
Source : Dvd Double Edition
Codec : Nero Digital Standard MPEG4
Language : English
Subtiltes : No
Size : 1.4 Giga
Number of files : 14
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Confetti blankets the cheering crowds along the streets of Manhattan on V-J Day while Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro) slowly makes his way. Glenn Miller's Pennsylvania 6-5000 becomes barely audible above the victory cries, paper horns and noisemakers. Jimmy pauses underneath a large, slanting, reddish-pink neon arrow pointing down at him as the camera zooms and focuses on him.
Inside the Rainbow Room, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra open with their theme, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, then break into Song Of India. Everyone is having a great time—except for the band, whose members are as expressionless as stone-faced Dorsey is. Jimmy Doyle puts the make on a couple of young women but fails. He spots a cute WAC sitting by herself; the band begins Opus One. The WAC turns out to be Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli), who plays hard to get. Nine minutes later Opus One ends and Jimmy gives up on his first try with Francine. It turns out, however, that his buddy has been dancing with Francine’s girl friend. Jimmy loans him his hotel room key and spends what’s left of the evening at the Rainbow Room talking with Francine.
About three or four in the morning, Jimmy, now alone, phones his buddy to see if it’s okay for him to return to his room. His buddy pleads for one more hour. Jimmy agrees. He climbs the stairway to the elevated train station, then watches a sailor and his girl friend dance to imaginary music to the dim glow of a streetlight. Jimmy just stares, longing for what they have.
Then the couple disappears....
These are the opening scenes of United Artists' New York. New York, Martin Scorcese’s latest film, a musical love story in the old Hollywood tradition but well-tempered by Scorcese’s remarkable vision as a director. Jimmy Doyle is an aspiring tenor saxophonist. Francine Evans is a talented vocalist. They fall in love, of course, although their romance is as shaky as the big band business in its waning days.
Jimmy tells Francine shortly after they meet that he’s looking for "the major chord," a balance of music, money, and love—in that order, but Francine could easily reverse it. Unfortunately, she isn’t able to because Jimmy proves to be a real bastard.
The music orchestrates their relationship throughout the film. Arranged, supervised and conducted by Academy Award winner (Cabaret) Ralph Burns, whom earlier arranged for Woody Herman’s postwar bands, the music of New York, New York is a marvelous blend of big band, bebop, and Broadway. The Cabaret team of John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote several new songs for the film, including its theme. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me, Once In a While, You Are My Lucky Star, It’s a Wonderful World, The Man I Love, and Just You, Just Me—most are big band arrangements featuring Francine on vocals and Jimmy on tenor (dubbed by jazz great Georgie Auld, who coached De Niro on tenor sax and appears in the film as bandleader Frankie Harte). These old standards weave a wonderful romantic ambience.
For a brief time Jimmy fronts his own big band and Francine, now his wife, is its featured vocalist. Big bands are on the way out, but Jimmy’s jazz-influenced arrangements and Francine’s singing give his band a chance of making it. One evening Francine becomes dizzy and hurries offstage after her song ends. Jimmy chases after her, and as she tells him she’s pregnant, the band plays Don’t Be That Way in the background.
But Francine is that way (Jimmy is not at all pleased) and returns to New York to have her baby. Jimmy soon gives up his band and joins her, working as a sideman at the Harlem Club, where some of the films hottest numbers are played: Diahnne Abbott, De Niro’s real-life wife, sings one of the most evocative versions of Honeysuckle Rose you'll ever hear. Francine eventually goes her own way and becomes a superstar. Her first hits include But the World Goes Round and There Goes the Ball Game, both allusions to her breakup with Jimmy.
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