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New York Stories
"New York Stories" (1989) presents three segments directed by Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Woody Allen, each set in New York City and reflecting each director's distinctive relationship with the city that shaped their filmmaking careers. Scorsese's opening segment, "Life Lessons," starring Nick Nolte as a painter, and Allen's closing "Oedipus Wrecks," featuring a mother literally appearing as an apparition in the sky over Manhattan, became the film's two most critically praised sections. The film's format, bringing together three of American cinema's most prominent auteurs within a single unified project, made it a genuine curiosity for critics and audiences interested in comparing directorial styles side by side. Its combination of three major auteur contributions and its shared thematic focus on New York City has made "New York Stories" one of the most star-studded anthology films of American cinema's modern era.
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The Kentucky Fried Movie
"The Kentucky Fried Movie" (1977) strings together dozens of short comedic sketches parodying television commercials, news broadcasts, and film genres, written by the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team who would go on to direct "Airplane!" three years later. Its rapid-fire, loosely connected sketch format, more akin to televised sketch comedy than a traditional narrative anthology, established a comedic anthology style that directly influenced the ZAZ team's subsequent spoof films and the broader genre-parody comedy tradition that followed. The film's segment "A Fistful of Yen," a lengthy parody of "Enter the Dragon," became its most fondly remembered and frequently referenced individual sketch among the film's cult following. Its combination of its influence on the ZAZ team's subsequent spoof comedy career and its foundational role in sketch-style comedic anthology filmmaking has made "The Kentucky Fried Movie" one of the genre's most influential cult entries.
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