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25Aug2008

Movie Trailer - 'New York, I Love You'

DateMonday, August 25, 2008 at 10:21AM
Anthology films usually attract more people to be in their casts than in their audiences. For some reason, whether it's the lack of one linear storyline or whatever, movies like Four Rooms and Coffee and Cigarettes routinely star some of the world's best talent and recruit some of its best directors (although Coffee and Cigarettes was directly entirely by Jim Jarmusch).

Paris Je t'aime was released in 2006 as a love song to Paris, and included segments directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles, Gus Van Sant, and Wes Craven, among many others. That film inspired the follow-up New York, I Love You, which you can't really call a sequel, but it's not a continuation of the storyline. It's kind of an American reimagining, if I can use my least favorite movie term.

I kind of wish this film featured the work of the Paris directors, frankly, although we do get to see the behind-the-camera debuts of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. Other directors include Shakhar Kapur (Elizabeth), Brett Ratner, Mira Nair, and Allen Hughes, best known as half of the Hughes Brothers (Dead Presidents). The cast, though is absolutely top notch: Julie Christie, Shia LaBeouf, Portman, Ethan Hawke, James Caan, Eli Wallach, Robin Wright Penn, Kevin Bacon, Christina Ricci, and on and on and on.

And while I'll admit I don't ever remember seeing the credit "In Post Production" at the end of a trailer before, that's about my only complaint with it. For my money, this trailer captures the spirit and the bustle of the greatest city on Earth pretty well. Hopefully the movie is as well-assembled as the trailer.

New York, I Love You will be a Valentine for Manhattan, opening on February 13th.

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