Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" (Martin Scorsese), a tormented painter channels heartbreak into his art. In "Life Without Zoë" (Francis Ford Coppola), a precocious 12-year-old navigates privilege and loneliness in a Manhattan hotel. And in "Oedipus Wrecks" (Woody Allen), a man’s domineering mother literally becomes a looming presence over New York.
Direction
Scorsese's operatic painter tantrums vs Allen's Jewish cosmic horror.
Acting
Nick Nolte fully unhinged; Mae Questel's mom from literal hell.
Score
Scorsese's Prokofiev needle drops hit different.
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mae Questel voiced Betty Boop and Olive Oyl for decades before becoming Allen's cosmic mother.
This was Coppola's desperate 1980s comeback attempt after One from the Heart bankrupted his studio — the Zoë segment stars his actual daughter.
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