New York, New York

I saw my film as taking 'the form of the musical, but doing something different with it – what Godard did with A Woman Is a Woman and Demy with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – not a traditional musical, but using the form differently.'

I saw my film as taking the form of the musical, but doing something different with it – what Godard did with A Woman Is a Woman and Demy with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – not a traditional musical, but using the form differently.

— Martin Scorsese  ·  Sight & Sound (interview with Michael Henry, October 1977), cited by MUBI Notebook

Films That Influenced New York, New York

A Woman Is a Woman

1961

France

8½

1963 · Federico Fellini

Italy