New York, I Love You (2009)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Absolutely brilliant

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Several love stories set in one of the most loved cities of the world, New York City. This is a film that has some of the most boring love stories i've seen in a long time, the acting is bland and even worse good talent gets wasted threw the toilet. (0/10)

This is not one movie but a lot of short films. I'm not sure, but I think some of the short films have two or more parts, with the first part shown earlier in the movie and another part of the film shown later. In the credits, each short film has two sets of its own credits, one showing the actors, writer and director, and the other showing other information. For some odd reason the writer is shown twice.From what I can tell, most or all the actors do a good job and the short films are well-written. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them could be Oscar-nominated as short films on their own. I didn't see any credits before I saw the movie, so I didn't recognize most of the actors, but there are lots of big names. There are many different styles of music, most of which I enjoyed. At the prom I was pleasantly surprised to hear sophisticated ballroom dance music, followed by the junk the kids actually enjoy. I did enjoy watching them dance to the so-called music.This is not for the whole family, though some individual films might be. I heard the sound go out a number of times.My favorites were the one where the high school student is set up with a date to prom with by a pharmacist, and the one where Cloris Leachman and Eli Wallach play a bickering couple walking through the city to the beach on their 63rd anniversary. The prom date storyline includes an unpleasant surprise for the boy when he meets the girl, an awkward encounter with the girl he was going out with (played by Blake Lively), and an unexpected ending to the story.I will try to describe the other stories that I remember. In a scene where everything is orange, Ben follows a beautiful girl played by Rachel Bilson to a bar and tries to pick her up. She is sweet and nice to him, but then Garry walks in. He is married but she is his mistress. He is also a skilled pickpocket. Later, the girl shows up in the blonde wig from her photo. I'm not sure it's Ben who was playing basketball with some guys from the 'hood, but the girl and the man have a pleasant encounter. The second story is pleasant and well-done, with everything blue or brown. A Hasidic Jewish woman is about to get married and she conducts a business transaction with a Jain man. They each talk about their culture and negotiate over the price of whatever is being sold. After that, we see the wedding with no dialogue or even audio other than music, with lots of men with beards and hats. The bride and groom seem to be enjoying themselves. The Jain man is shown driving somewhere but I'm not sure we ever see him again.There is a story where a white girl born in Mali gets in a Haitian driver's cab. They have a nice conversation. Then they are joined by another man. A composer of music for anime meets a girl online. She is sweet but he has never seen her. Finally they meet, and I recognize the distinctive face of Christina Ricci. Another scene in a restaurant is orange, but I'm not sure what happens. A young woman on the subway is narrating her story, but we only hear her talking. There is a man she will meet later.A retired opera singer moves into a nice hotel. The young foreign- born bellhop is disabled but determined to his job. They have several nice conversations before a mysterious white light appears outside the window. Another older hotel employee seems to say everything the younger man said. An artist who wasn't born in the United States but looks like Jay Leno if he didn't bother to shave wants to paint a beautiful Chinese woman, but she is hesitant. The woman's boss is very strict and doesn't seem to care about her. There is some interesting Chinese music and a surprise at the end. Also in Chinatown, a white woman brings in her sexiest clothes to be dry-cleaned. The dry-cleaner seems uncomfortable with the situation, but at least they are speaking Cantonese and the older man can't understand them, right? We see him later in a nice scene with a middle-aged but attractive woman smoking outside a restaurant. This one  has a surprise ending.In a park, two white women see a Hispanic man with a white girl at a fountain. They compliment him on what a good job he does as a "manny". Then the man returns the girl to her mother, where we find out things are not as they seem.     This is all that I can remember, but there are a couple of other stories that didn't make enough sense for me to understand.This is a worthwhile film. You are sure to find something you enjoy.

i mean it i picked this up at the DVD store it was in Bradley coopers 5 in one DVD collection.its got a huge cast & many directors & teams worked on it.and scarlet directed a scene which they cut it .many stories with different themes they each tell & explain it to the viewer but the minus point begins rising when the screen play changes its game as the stories are hanging in between each director with a story try too hard to mention & give something but fails.and as soon as i begin watching this i saw Maggie q she player a hooker not just saying because i am a fan of her but she really did good action flicks so thought she would do similar.also irfan khan a greatest actor who has to go through this crap,he deserved better other then these two all actors including Natalie port-man cant act and give excitement to audience.overall this film tried to fall in creative art genre with love,sadness & emotions same old style with many directors touch why?only to gain a cult status & some critics might dig it.well i am disappointed in it.for once tell me what did they tell about new york that world don't know something thats not written on internet about it.damn these people.i am not against character meeting then going away but in this case the characters were more like some c grade cartoonMy Rating is 2/10 a good idea not gone bad it was never good it was awful from the start.please don't try hard to show intelligence because all in this end will be left a product built by info.my point is take inspiration its not bad but use your brain don't copy paste even the exact idea i mean if you are giving me a coconut cookie yes give me but put some new stuff into it not just effort.i hope you folks get what i am trying to say

Urgh. Watched this courtesy of my significant other. It is a dull, insulting little collection of "star studded" advertisements for a big city in the United States. The dialog, characters and soundtrack are the pretentious, meaningless pulp an untalented filmmaker attempting to produce a "timeless classic" would come up with. It's a sort of silhouette of a good movie, devoid of depth and full of slow piano. The shallowness is exaggerated by the little time given to each story. Possibly interesting characters are given no time to develop. Possibly interesting stories are reduced to little gags. Movies like this are to actual cinema what prefab commercial music is to actual song. (Needless to say, my girlfriend loved it.)