New York Stories is an anthology film which was released in the United States in March of 1989. The film consists of three shorts with the central theme being New York City. The first short is Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Richard Price. The second is Life Without Zoe, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Coppola and his daughter, Sofia Coppola. The last segment is Oedipus Wrecks, directed and written by Wood...
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New York Stories is an anthology film which was released in the United States in March of 1989. The film consists of three shorts with the central theme being New York City. The first short is Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Richard Price. The second is Life Without Zoe, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Coppola and his daughter, Sofia Coppola. The last segment is Oedipus Wrecks, directed and written by Woody Allen.
The reviews were generally positive for Life Lessons and Oedipus Wrecks, but generally negative for Life Without Zoe . Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote that Coppola's segment was "by far the director's worst work yet."
The film was screened out of competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
In Life Lessons, written by Richard Price, and very loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short novel The Gambler, Nick Nolte plays Lionel Dobie, an acclaimed abstract painter who is unable to paint before a major gallery exhibition of his...
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