New York, I Love You (2009)

Twelve directors and seventeen writers created a web of stories that follow the format of Paris Je T'aime, as each story takes place in a different area of the city. It is a valentine to New York.

I found this film in my quest for more Natalie Portman. She is listed here as director, writer and star of one segment about a Hasidic diamond trader about to be married and her dealings with a Jain Indian associate as the two discover their commonality.

Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman portray a married couple in Brighton Beach on their 63rd wedding anniversary.

Chris Cooper and Robin Wright Penn are a flirtatious couple smoking outside a restaurant.

Julie Christie is a former opera singer visiting a New York Hotel.

Another scenario involves a downtown artist who paints asian women on napkins using soy sauce in Chinatown restaurants.

A dancer who is mistaken for a "Manny" by a couple of women who observe him playing with his white daughter in Central Park.

Gus (Bradley Cooper) shows up in several scenes throughout and portrays a guy thinking through a one-night stand with a woman he may actually be falling for.

Ethan Hawk, Orlando Bloom, Eva Amuri, Andy Garcia are also featured along with many others in wonderfully unique tales.

The DVD extra features include two short films that are both lovely.

Vagabond Shoes is written and directed by Scarlett Johansson and stars Kevin Bacon as a man as he dresses and goes out to eat his bag lunch on a bench by the water. The five-minute gem has a very long list of credits attached.

Apocrypha, written and directed by Andrey Zuyagintsev, is about a boy who observes two lovers from afar.