Movies

September, 1977

When Liza Minnelli belts out the title song just before the beautiful, bittersweet climax of New York, NewYork, the good old days of the big movie musical seem to be instantly back in fashion-sort of. Director Martin Scorsese, a film maker best known for the gut-level realism of Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, has audaciously teamed Liza with Robert De Niro in a grit-versus-glitter combo that sounds dead wrong but turns out to be a stroke of smart chemistry. Letting himself go, Scorsese opens with...