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Manhattan

Woody Allen’s homage to Manhattan and to the long tradition linking cinema to the city:

-Vertov’s 1927 Der Mann mit der Kamera (Man with a Movie Camera)

-Walter Ruttman’s 1927 Berlin, die Sinfonie der Groszstadt (often referred to in English as (Symphony for a City), and,

-Fritz Lang’s c.1926-27 Metropolis

-the first images of Los Angeles 2019 in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner

-Rob

This was written by Rob Shields. Posted on Monday, January 12, 2009, at 23:00. Filed under Cities & urbanism, Media & communications, North America. Tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. markb wrote:

    i always wished blade runner was set in san francisco, where Dick originally set the story. i think the built environment is 1000% more interesting than LA- i would’ve loved to have seen it all post-apocalyptic and distopian.

    Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 19:52 | Permalink