New York @ 40.

Having just returned from the city anyone thinks of when you say the word, "city," I'm finding New York's 40th Anniversary package to be a pretty fun browse. Among the features: Adam Moss meets Woody Allen: "We spoke in his screening room on Park Avenue, huddled close on two rolling chairs because, he said, he is hard of hearing. He was soft-spoken and voluble, his voice rising slightly only when the conversation ventured, in asides, into the present political climate, a state of affairs that clearly exasperates him. But mostly we talked about the city - both the one where he lives and the one in his imagination."

Also noteworthy here is "The New York Actor," a slide show of photographs by Dan Winters, and Ric Burns's list, one of six, of the "top ten New Yorkers who reshaped the city" - because three are filmmakers.

Earlier: The "New York Canon: 1968 - 2008."

Posted by dwhudson at October 1, 2008 11:25 AM