Manhattan – Frame by Frame, 70’s Summer School

The Modern School of Film’s founder, Robert Milazzo, leads an in-depth, active deconstruction and group-discussion. This series was created with the cinephile in mind, to delve deeper in the art and craft of film. The active deconstruction format will allow for the instructor to stop the film at points and lead in depth discussions about the techniques being used in the film, as you watch it. Explore the depth and breadth of film as an art form and see films you love in a new way! Rated R Manhattan 1979, Director: Woody Allen Woody Allen stars as Isaac Davis, a TV comedy writer sick of the pap he is forced to churn out and harboring dreams of being the great American novelist. His love life is in barbed-wire territory: he is tormented by his second ex-wife Jill (Meryl Streep), a lesbian who has written a tell-all book about their marriage, and he is dating teenager Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), to whom he refuses to commit, and keeps hinting that a breakup may be imminent. Isaac’s disillusioned (and married) best friend Yale (Michael Murphy) has begun an affair with the cerebral writer Mary Wilke (Diane Keaton). While Isaac makes a last minute, sink-or-swim decision to quit his job and devote all of his time to book writing, and neurotically moans about what the lack of a full time job will do to him. Meanwhile, Isaac and Mary begin to fall for one another. Gather at Pharmacy before the screening for a cold beverage and pre-show discussion!  There’s a table on reserve at 5 pm and beers are chillin! Rob Millazzo will be there to get the informal discussions kicked off before moving it to The Cary.