BAMcinématek Free 9/11 Tribute Screenings: Woody Allen’s Manhattan

When:Sunday, September 11, 2011
Time:2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm, 9:30pm
Where:BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
718-636-4100 ext. 545
Cost:Free

BAMcinématek marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with free screenings of Woody Allen’s rhapsodic love letter to New York, which screened here nine years ago in commemoration of the first anniversary of the tragedy.

Manhattan
Directed by Woody Allen
With Woody Allen, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Diane Keaton

(1979) 96min, 35mm

After his wife (Meryl Streep) leaves him for another woman, Isaac Davis (Allen) leaves his day job as a television writer and begins dating Tracy (Hemingway), a precocious 17-year-old. But he soon begins to fall for his best friend’s (Murphy) mistress (Keaton). Allen’s rhapsodic love letter to New York is undoubtedly his most romantic—thanks to a larger-than-life Gershwin score, Gordon Willis’ radiant black-and-white cinematography, and no shortage of classic Manhattan locales, including the MoMA, Elaine’s, the Hayden Planetarium, and the iconic shot of the 59th Street Bridge—making this a must-see on the big screen.

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