About this episode
The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1977 features the year’s biggest flop, Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York . Directed by Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus and Mary Kay Place, New York, New York was a box-office failure and a major disappointment for Scorsese following the success of Taxi Driver . The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/new-york-new-york-1977 ), Vincent Canby in the New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/23/archives/film-new-york-in-a-tuneful-era.html ), and Pauline Kael in The New Yorker . Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1977 installment featuring Robert Altman’s Cannes Film Festival award winner 3 Women .