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Let's face it, New York City is going to have many cinematic love letters written to it, and they're not all going to be Woody Allen's Manhattan. The latest is called, simply, New York, I Love You, and amongst the long list of directors are Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. The cast includes bold-face names as well, like Robin Wright Penn, Ethan Hawke, Blake Lively, Hayden Christiansen, Kevin Bacon, Rachel Bilson, James Caan, Orlando Bloom...the list goes on and on. Filming wrapped up in April, and here's a peek at what it's going to look like.
From IMDB: "Following the successful feature film 'Paris, je t'aime'...we are thrilled to present 'New York, I Love You'. 12 filmmakers will direct a short film (5 minutes) illustrating the universal theme of encountering love within the five boroughs of New York City." Some of working titles for the "segments" are: Chinatown, Upper East Side and...Kosher Vegetarian. Basically, if the trailer's any indication, you're looking at some A-list shorts soundtracked by Feist. Word is that Tokyo gets the next "I Love You" treatment. [via Gawker]
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Missed a perfectly good opportunity to use an LCD Soundsystem song (typically random unofficial youtube video).
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I'm trying to figure out why this doesn't interest me at all.
ugh, everything about this is cloying
I don't know if movie audiences are that into anthologies of short films. Movies with big ensemble casts, sometimes.
Wow, not a black person in sight.
Yakatori beat me to the punch, but it is so true that it bears repeating. It's like the producers decided against their original title: "I love white new york." White people and asian women (sexually available for white men). I saw a single black kid dancing in the wheelchair scene, but I don't know anyone who'll bother to see the rest of this barf.
Anthology/vignette type things can be great, I point to Night on Earth as an example.
I hate to say it, and I didn't want to be the first to say it, but Yakatori is correct and I'll go one step farther than history:
It should be titled "I love transplanted white New York".
Slap me with the schlocky spoon.
Agreed with 6 and 7. Paris Je t'aime had some very unique minority POVs, but this NYC version has one asian woman in it, and - surprise, surprise - she's seduced by a white guy.
NYC has enough "love letter" films. Even our crack/hooker/HIV/race-riots eras are glorified. Can't someone make Chicago or Boston look trendy in a film so that wannabe hipsters and fashionistas crowd up their sidewalks?
i feel like this should be called "manhattan, i love you."
they probably figured that there are simply too many areas of the 'outer boroughs' to cover, that they wouldn't even bother trying. besides, anyone unfamiliar with nyc won't know better anyway. which is truly unfortunate, because i imagine the people who really do know and love this city are not going to be amused by the cute disney-fication of their city (see: fake garbage on e 4th st), and instead of leaving the theatres with a united, reinforced love of new york, they are more likely going to be reminded of the ways in which nyc is 'bringing them down' (going with the LCD thing). I guess the studios decided that the disgust of the city that the movie is about will be GREATLY outweighed by how much the rest of the country is going to eat this sh*t up. oh well, parisians probably hate paris, je t'aime, even with its attempts to show the 'underbelly' of their city.
It's terrifying to think of the audiences watching this flick in a multiplex outside of Omaha.
this is such crap
God I hope Mira Nair put some real Desis in there.