New York, New York (1977), 6-

PG | 2h 35min | Drama, Music, Musical | 21 June 1977
An egotistical saxophonist and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long, up-hill climb.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander.
Ron Field ... choreographer

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076451/

Watched online, ok print.

12 songs in the Soundtracks; seems like more in the film. Great songs, some old and some newly composed to feel old.

Rated 5 on 2015-05-06. I'm going to be more generous today. If you know the following going in, maybe the impact won't be so bad: the film is very unpleasant, RD plays a horrid man who is controlling not only of LM, but anyone he deals with, that he never hit her in the film, but you get plenty of loud outbursts (some lasting a long time), physical control, general tension, and some violence.

No, it's a tense time until he leaves her. Then we get 15 min of her success montage, and there she seems to be imitating Mama.

Then he intersects her life again, and exerts his sick control one more time, but without the tension of their marriage. He's either being cruel, or is very conflicted himself. Her reaction is weird: devastated.

Wow, I saw a craft services credit in the end roll. But it was not nearly as long a credit sequence as we get today. But maybe the longest I've seen since the Beach movies.

distr. UA, dir. Scorsese; 6-