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Today brings fresh opportunity to take in a masterwork, just the way it should be seen. Starz FilmCenter begins a week-long run of Woody Allen’s “Manhattan,” above. “Chapter One,” begins yammering television scribe Isaac Davis. “He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. No, make that he romanticized it all out of proportion.” Revisions follow quickly, and with each, darker thoughts about Gotham. Yet the 1979 romantic comedy — in a new 35mm black-and-white print! — remains matchlessly perfect. Mariel Hemingway, Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep are the women in his tortured love life.
