New York Stories
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Allen
- In Woody Allen: The 1980s
…humorous contribution to the triptych New York Stories (1989)—“Oedipus Wrecks,” about an attorney whose nagging mother (Mae Questel) transmogrifies into an omniscient spectre—was widely acknowledged to be the film’s strongest segment. Allen’s next project, Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), ranks among his finest films. An ambitious Fyodor Dostoyevsky-like meditation on the…
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Brody
- In Adrien Brody
…part in the anthology movie New York Stories (1989). He briefly attended both Stony Brook University and Queens College before moving to Los Angeles. Brody appeared in the independent film The Boy Who Cried Bitch (1991) and in Steven Soderbergh’s King of the Hill (1993). He took the part of…
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Scorsese
- In Martin Scorsese: Films of the 1980s: Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, and The Color of Money
…was a segment of the New York Stories (1989) triptych (which also contains segments by Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola). Nick Nolte played a middle-aged bearish slob of a painter desperate to keep his restless paramour-disciple (Rosanna Arquette) from moving out.
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