Manhattan *****

Director: Woody Allen

Year: 1979

Writers: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

Cinematographer: Gordon Willis

An adult film. I can't think of a more adult, mature movie that I've seen recently. I love how Allen is constantly referencing people in the adult intellectual realm, and yet making fun of the way adult intellectuals are so pretentious and full of shit. He is himself, he makes movies about himself, and makes fun of himself in and through the film. Its very intimate because the audience can feel how personal the film is for him both as director and actor.

He is both himself and the caricature of himself. He adores New York, and paints the caricature of its intellectual culture of the time in which the film was made.