Once Gordon Willis’s amazing black and white cinematography practically paints my living room walls, surrounding me, for some reason I feel less shattered. Personally, I like to turn the lights off, lie across my couch and let Manhattan play before me.
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Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen, Diane Keaton and early morning New York CityĪ lot of people will reach for Woody Allen’s Annie Hall while going through a break-up and quite understandably, considering that Annie Hall is a movie about a couple who breaks-up. However, as the story ends, Jamie has met a bookstore clerk (Tracy Pollan) and realized the coked-up nightlife, and the vampires who inhabit it, might not be for him there’s the glimmer of a chance that maybe, just maybe, he might wind up with a bit of happiness in his life. Jamie attempts to win back Amanda but when she sees what a mess he’s become without her, she retreats back to her world of fashion parties while Jamie spirals farther into his own pity. When his good friend (Swoozie Kurtz) offers a sympathetic shoulder, he even ruins that by trying to seduce her. Grief and heartache are Jamie’s only emotions and there’s nobody around for him to pour himself out to. With the help of some sniffs of cocaine, he manages to make it into work-until he loses that as well. Jamie buries his grief by prowling around the New York club scene every night until 6 a.m.
Fox in an outstanding and far overlooked performance) is a struggling New York writer whose existence is shattered when his girlfriend, Amanda (an adorable Phoebe Cates) leaves their tiny, stuffy apartment (and lives) to pursue a life of glitz, glamour and fabulous parties among the world of high fashion modeling. In Bright Lights, Big City, we’re introduced to such a character right away. The kind of pain that you feel in your bones. Me, personally, I like to watch movies where the main character is going through the same level of confusion, pain, uncertainty and despair as I am. You might be the type of person who goes straight for the Nora Ephron/Nancy Shyer catalog on Netflix while going through a bad break-up. Fox searches for a distraction from heartache in Bright Lights, Big City Bright Lights, Big City (1988) Michael J. So, sit back and enjoy this week’s offering: Jason Sheppard picks his five favorite films to watch while going through a break-up-not that he’s currently going through a break-up, thank goodness. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites-whether it’s moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever!-in bite-sized articles perfect for your lunch break, a dull commute, or anywhere you need to take a Moment of Zen. “Favorites” takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews…you name it, we’ve got it. Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting.
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