New York Stories is a 1989 American anthology film; it consists of three shorts with the central theme being New York City.
The first is Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Richard Price and starring Nick Nolte. The second is Life Without Zoë, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Coppola with his daughter, Sofia Coppola. The last is Oedipus Wrecks, directed, written by and starring Woody Allen.
The film was screened out of competition at the 1989 Cannes Film FestivalDirected by Woody Allen
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese
Produced by Barbara De Fina
Fred Fuchs
Robert Greenhut
Charles H. Joffe
Jack Rollins
Fred Roos
Written by Woody Allen
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Richard Price
Starring
Woody Allen
Rosanna Arquette
Mia Farrow
Giancarlo Giannini
Julie Kavner
Nick Nolte
Talia Shire
Music by Kid Creole
Carmine Coppola
Cinematography Sven Nykvist
Vittorio Storaro
Néstor Almendros
Edited by Susan E. Morse
Barry Malkin
Thelma Schoonmaker
Production
company
Touchstone Pictures
Silver Screen Partners IV
American Zoetrope (Life Without Zoë)
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Release date
March 10, 1989
Running time
124 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $15 million
Box office $10.7 millionIn a story loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short novel The Gambler, Nick Nolte plays Lionel Dobie, an acclaimed abstract artist who finds himself unable to paint during the days before the scheduled beginning of a major gallery exhibition of his new work. Rosanna Arquette is Paulette, his apprentice/assistant and former lover. Lionel is still infatuated with her, but Paulette wants only his tutelage, which makes things difficult since they live in the same studio-loft. Paulette dates other people, including a performance artist (Steve Buscemi) and a painter (Jesse Borrego).
These deliberate provocations on Paulette's part make Lionel insanely jealous—and fuel his creativity. Lionel and Paulette, it becomes clear, have been using each other: Lionel using her sexually, Paulette using him as a means of entry to the higher spheres of the New York social and art scene. Paulette wants to give up and go home to her parents but Lionel persuades her to stay because New York is where a painter needs to be.
Lionel pours his anxiety and repressed passion into his work. Paintings around the studio show visual metaphors from relations past: stormy skies, burning bridges, and tormented clowns. Lionel realizes that he needs the emotional turmoil of his destructive relationships in order to fuel his art. In the last scene, at the art exhibit, Lionel meets another attractive young woman, a struggling painter. He persuades her to become his assistant, and potentially his lover, beginning the cycle anew.
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