The last time I watched Manhattan was in college. I saw it today again. What a great Woody Allen film. Less endearing than Annie Hall or Hannah and Her Sisters, but still funny and heartbreaking. I love when he says New York is a "knockout". We should all be so lucky to love where we live with such intensity and certainty. Trust me, I wouldn't exactly describe Dallas as a "knockout". The opening of the film is beautiful. It's all kind of corny--sentimental Manhattan images, Gershwin pounding in the background--but it works. Isn't that why we love New York? The storied images, the black and white romance, the twinkling fantasy. Anyway, here's a line that made me laugh out loud:"Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Beneath his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat."
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