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Article: Travel: New York: Following in Woody Allen's footsteps Manhattan - you saw the film 20 years ago, now visit the locations. But only in black and white. By Donald Hiscock
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 17, 1999
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"THIS WAS still a town that existed in black and white" is how the
hero of Woody Allen's Manhattan describes New York at the start of
the film. The screen matches sharp monochrome images with a grand
rendition of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Twenty years on, the
film's opening sequence still accurately reflects the seductive and
beguiling montage of street life in one of the world's most visited -
and filmed - cities.
As the succession of beautifully framed images showed, black and
white is the perfect medium to represent the city's architecture. To
appreciate the locations that Woody Allen used for his prophetically
autobiographical film about the relationship between a writer, Isaac
Davis ...