Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Anna (segment "Yvan Attal")
- (as Robin Wright Penn)
- Directors
- Fatih Akin(segment Fatih Akin)
- Yvan Attal(segment Yvan Attal)
- Randall Balsmeyer(transitions)
- Writers
- Hu Hong(segment Jiang Wen)
- Yao Meng(segment Jiang Wen)
- Israel Horovitz(segment Jiang Wen)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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- TriviaThe various filmmakers were asked to adhere to three guidelines: They had only twenty-four hours to shoot, a week to edit, and needed to give the sense of a particular neighborhood.
- GoofsThe photo of Molly that Ben shoves into the mailbox is wallet-size (it was in the stolen wallet), maybe 3" long, judging by the size of his hand holding it. However, when he passes the mailbox later, the photo that pops out is at least an 8 x10" (judging by the size of a standard USPS mailbox) when the frame is frozen. Then, when he picks it up, it is almost 6" long, as big as his entire hand, and more suitable to a frame on a desk. The same photo is three different sizes. Is the mailbox magical?
- Quotes
Camille: Hey, David, it's Camille. You know, when Dostoevsky was writing The Gambler, he signed a contract with his publisher saying that he would finish it in twenty-six days, and he did it, but he had the help of this young stenographer. This girl, she... she stayed with him and she helped him. And... afterwards they actually got married. Ha, isn't that cool? That's how he met his wife. Anyway I found this story in the preface for Crime and Punishment so I was thinking that... and, this would have to be between you and me, but... I was thinking that I could read the books and tell you what's going on and that way you could just focus on your music. But only if you're comfortable with this, and if you're not then you can just forget it, and you can quit, but if you are... then open this door.
David: Open... this door?
[crawls to his front door and opens it]
Camille: Okay, a deal's a deal.
David: Does this mean we're getting married?
Camille: I have a lot of reading to do...
Camille: Hi, I'm Camille.
David: Hi, I'm David.
- Crazy creditsThe last segment segues into scenes from the film, viewed as if projected on parts of buildings. After, the end credits begin, accompanied by stills, both of the characters and behind the scenes.
- Alternate versionsWhen the title was shown at Toronto Film Festival it included two additional segments These Vagabond Shoes (2009) and Apocrypha (2009), these were removed for the wide release but are included in the DVD extras.
- ConnectionsEdited into These Vagabond Shoes (2009)
- SoundtracksNo Surprises
(1997)
Performed by Radiohead
Courtesy of Parlophone Records
Under License from EMI Music Group
Written by Jonny Greenwood (as Greenwood), Colin Greenwood (as Greenwood), Ed O'Brien (as O'Brien),
Phil Selway (as Selway), Thom Yorke (as Yorke)
Published by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
My interest in this film was mild, it boasted a large cast and several directors, but I was more interested in Paris, je t'aime. New York, I Love You comes off as a poor attempt at trying to show talent and style. The film is good, but not as good as it should, or wants to be. I found it to be very uneven with each short and I truly liked only one of them.
Instead of going into each short, beat by beat, I'll highlight the ones I care enough to talk about, for better or worse. We start off with Bradley Cooper and Justin Bartha, each getting into a cab and having a small argument over which street to take. This is our introduction to this film, it's interesting and mildly funny, but offers us no insight into either character or their situation. We go on through other shorts, involving a bald Natalie Portman and lazy boy Orlando Bloom. I found that a lot of the shorts had characters that I just didn't have interest in. For a short, one of the main objectives is to grab the viewer's attention with either a character or situation, many of these shorts fail to do this.
The one short that I absolutely loved, is also the most basic one. Two people who are in love walk down the street together. Cloris Leachman and Eli Wallach are perfect and in their old age outshine everyone else in this piece. Their short is soft and heartfelt. The only true love story in this whole piece. While other pieces were interesting and entertaining (Maggie Q and Ethan Hawke) none had the presence of Leachman and Wallach.
As mentioned before, some shorts are uneven and try to pull small twists here and there. Most of them are obvious (Ratner's piece & Cooper/Wright Penn) but I give them credit for trying. Everyone does a decent job in their roles, as I mentioned, this is a pretty big cast. Shia LaBeouf stars in the oddest segment of them all, along with the beautiful Julie Christie. It'll have some people scratching their heads, as it seems to be the odd one out of the group.
One big problem is that the film doesn't showcase New York enough, it should almost be a third character, but instead it's simply the backdrop. The film suffers from the lack of ethnicity that should be present. This is New York after all, but instead we get the beautiful cast, it doesn't feel real.
The film is pretty much hit or miss and nothing jumps out at you as a wow moment. Each segment is directed well, but nothing memorable. I read each segment was given a short amount of time to film everything, that has its pros and cons. Why not take more time to craft everything?
- Matt_Layden
- Feb 8, 2010
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- Countries of origin
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- Also known as
- New York, Anh Yêu Em
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $14,700,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,588,015
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $380,605
- Oct 18, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $9,961,023
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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