New Trailer for the Anthology 'New York, I Love You'

Great cast, good directors, the best damn city on the planet - there is plenty to move you toward New York, I Love You. However...these anthology movies rarely work. They can - anything can - but more often than not, movies with 11 directors come up a little short because you're not going for the same two-hour ride your used to. In this case, the directors include Natalie Portman, Mira Nair, Shekhar Kapur, Allen Hughes, and Brett Ratner, and that is a strange collection. According to a synopsis, "The 12 segments will be connected together via transitional linking sequences. New York City is the main unifying character and the film will show the city as a living, breathing and loving whole." Woody Allen managed to do that beautifully 30 years ago with Manhattan, but that was a different New York City. I certainly don't begrudge people trying, though, and the new trailer has a lot more energy than you'd think they could get out of a dozen short films. The song in the trailer, incidentally, is "1901" by Phoenix. In case you were wondering. New York, I Love You opens on October 16th.

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[Emo]

The movie poster is messed up. The film strip is on the wrong side in the mirrored reflection in the water.