New York, I Love You (2009)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Why so much hype?

Better Late Then Never

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

New York, I Love You (2009) Directors: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randall Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Jiang Wen, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner Watched: 7/27/18 Rating: 7/10 First Paris, Now New York. What's next? Shanghai. Eleven stories hold varied merit, Segue scenes/montages bridge them superbly. Ensemble cast- No talent Shortage There. Pleased To watch Lesser known Directors' work. Rife with irony/perepeteia- Method actress/Painter/Writer's Call Girl Are best segments. A mixed bag, But more Wins. Tetractys poems stem from the mathematician Euclid, who considered the number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have a mystical significance because of its sum of 10. He named it a Tetractys. Thus, these poems follow a 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllable format, with additional verses written in an inverted syllable count. #Tetractys #QuadrupleTetractys #PoemReview #Anthology #RomanticComedy

This is not one movie but a lot of short films. I'm not sure, but I think some of the short films have two or more parts, with the first part shown earlier in the movie and another part of the film shown later. In the credits, each short film has two sets of its own credits, one showing the actors, writer and director, and the other showing other information. For some odd reason the writer is shown twice.From what I can tell, most or all the actors do a good job and the short films are well-written. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them could be Oscar-nominated as short films on their own. I didn't see any credits before I saw the movie, so I didn't recognize most of the actors, but there are lots of big names. There are many different styles of music, most of which I enjoyed. At the prom I was pleasantly surprised to hear sophisticated ballroom dance music, followed by the junk the kids actually enjoy. I did enjoy watching them dance to the so-called music.This is not for the whole family, though some individual films might be. I heard the sound go out a number of times.My favorites were the one where the high school student is set up with a date to prom with by a pharmacist, and the one where Cloris Leachman and Eli Wallach play a bickering couple walking through the city to the beach on their 63rd anniversary. The prom date storyline includes an unpleasant surprise for the boy when he meets the girl, an awkward encounter with the girl he was going out with (played by Blake Lively), and an unexpected ending to the story.I will try to describe the other stories that I remember. In a scene where everything is orange, Ben follows a beautiful girl played by Rachel Bilson to a bar and tries to pick her up. She is sweet and nice to him, but then Garry walks in. He is married but she is his mistress. He is also a skilled pickpocket. Later, the girl shows up in the blonde wig from her photo. I'm not sure it's Ben who was playing basketball with some guys from the 'hood, but the girl and the man have a pleasant encounter. The second story is pleasant and well-done, with everything blue or brown. A Hasidic Jewish woman is about to get married and she conducts a business transaction with a Jain man. They each talk about their culture and negotiate over the price of whatever is being sold. After that, we see the wedding with no dialogue or even audio other than music, with lots of men with beards and hats. The bride and groom seem to be enjoying themselves. The Jain man is shown driving somewhere but I'm not sure we ever see him again.There is a story where a white girl born in Mali gets in a Haitian driver's cab. They have a nice conversation. Then they are joined by another man. A composer of music for anime meets a girl online. She is sweet but he has never seen her. Finally they meet, and I recognize the distinctive face of Christina Ricci. Another scene in a restaurant is orange, but I'm not sure what happens. A young woman on the subway is narrating her story, but we only hear her talking. There is a man she will meet later.A retired opera singer moves into a nice hotel. The young foreign- born bellhop is disabled but determined to his job. They have several nice conversations before a mysterious white light appears outside the window. Another older hotel employee seems to say everything the younger man said. An artist who wasn't born in the United States but looks like Jay Leno if he didn't bother to shave wants to paint a beautiful Chinese woman, but she is hesitant. The woman's boss is very strict and doesn't seem to care about her. There is some interesting Chinese music and a surprise at the end. Also in Chinatown, a white woman brings in her sexiest clothes to be dry-cleaned. The dry-cleaner seems uncomfortable with the situation, but at least they are speaking Cantonese and the older man can't understand them, right? We see him later in a nice scene with a middle-aged but attractive woman smoking outside a restaurant. This one  has a surprise ending.In a park, two white women see a Hispanic man with a white girl at a fountain. They compliment him on what a good job he does as a "manny". Then the man returns the girl to her mother, where we find out things are not as they seem.     This is all that I can remember, but there are a couple of other stories that didn't make enough sense for me to understand.This is a worthwhile film. You are sure to find something you enjoy.

New York, I Love You features an array of directing and acting talent who seem set on proving the adage that too many cooks spoil the broth. Apparently the filmmakers had two days to shoot and a week to edit. Also, they had to limit their screen time to eight minutes. By the quality of the writing I am guessing they only had half that time to write the scripts. Some stories go after slice of life, some surprise endings, some a fleeting moment of human connection in the unforgiving city. In such a collage you expect hit-and-miss at best, but what we get here is miss and miss-by-a-mile. Ethan Hawke and Bradley Cooper are given embarrassingly trite lines, and it is a crying shame to see Julie Christie embroiled in this mess. Eli Wallach takes a walk with his wife and they bicker. This segment, like many others, begs only one question: so what? Anyway, why do we need a movie that is a homage to NYC? There are hundreds of movies that already function as love letters to NYC. And in real life, this kind of love letter leads only to acrimonious separation. "After all these years, you still don't understand me," sighed New York... *slams door*Actually, for all the smoking that goes on, I suspect this is really a love letter to Big Tobacco.Two stars for two stories - the pickpocket face-off with Andy Garcia at the beginning, and the Robin Wright Penn/ Chris Cooper segment. Partly because they kind of worked, but mostly because they were so much less annoying and meaningless than the other stories.

This movie is really boring and the best part was the old couple who celebrated their anniversary at Coney Island. I thought the acting was really bad at times, for instance when Orlando Bloom was explaining why he can't read a book. The story about the kid who took a girl in a wheel chair to prom and had sex with her as she held herself up attaching a belt to a tree trunk and only to later find out she was just acting was just pathetic. The story with Natalie Portman who shaved her head when she was married and then to reveal her bald head to a man was just unbelievable. It just seemed to weird, awkward and not worth Natalie shaving her head. The title of the movie doesn't really make sense as the setting just takes place in New York, it isn't really about or celebrating New York. It is such a random title and doesn't fit the movie. Otherwise this story is about just life. Brief moments.