I apologise for the poor pictures, but it struck me when watching Manhatta that the manner in which much of the city was shot seemed to be relating the buildings to ancient monuments that have come to represent lost or at least very old civilisations; further reinforcing the 'elegiac' feel. The music very much did make a difference in watching the film.. on Google video it's set to a score that is something of a cross between Chopin's Funeral March and the Jaws theme, which made it far less relaxingly melancholic and more imminently doomed. Either way though, it remained elegiac.
manhattan - the modern world, as a culmination of old world style and design! ok, the ordering is going to come up wrong, but i just replied to your post about Rose Hobart, and this is part of what i was talking about there. that new works (or ideas or cities or anything else) extend and add onto existing ones, so that they are able to move beyond, from past to present and pointing to the future. (ugh this sounds a bit much i know..)
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