Hot Club of France with Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli "Bolero de Django" by The Hot Club of France with Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli Life Without Zoe This segment's music was almost written in its entirety by Kid Creole (August Darnell) and performed by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, except where noted. "Zoe" "Daiquiri Daiquira" "Schoolin" "Abu" "The Robbery" "My Love" "People Will Talk" "Party Girl" "Don't Lead Me On" "March of the Waiters" "Takin' a Holiday" "12th Street" by Thick as Thieves "Blue Suede Shoes" by Carl Lee Perkins "Back to School" by Pianosaurus Oedipus Wrecks "I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)" by Frankie Carle "Mother" by Bernie Leighton "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Benny Goodman "In a Persian Market" by Wilbur de Paris "I'll Be Seeing You" by Liberace "I've Found a New Baby" by Wilbur de Paris "All the Things You Are" by David Rose & His Orchestra "June in January" by David Rose & His Orchestra Reception Box office New York Stories opened on March 10, 1989, earning $432,337 in 12 theaters over its opening weekend. The film went on to gross $10,763,469 domestically playing in 514 theaters. Critical response New York Stories holds a 75% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 24 reviews. Allen and Scorsese's segments of the film have generally been praised. However, Hal Hinson, writing in The Washington Post felt that Coppola's segment was "by far the director's worst work yet." Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half stars, saying "New York Stories consists of three films, one good, one bad, one disappointing." He further explained, "Of the three films, the only really successful one is Life Lessons, the Scorsese story of a middle-age painter and his young, discontented girlfriend. The Coppola, an updated version of the story of Eloise, the little girl who lived in the Plaza Hotel, is surprisingly thin and unfocused. And the Allen, about a 50-year-old man still dominated by his mother, starts well but then takes a wrong turn about halfway through." Notes References External links John Walker. "New York Stories: Life Lessons film review". Art Monthly/artdesigncafe. Retrieved 6 January 2012. The New York Times review 1989 films 1989 comedy-drama films 1989 romantic comedy films 1989 romantic drama films 1980s American films 1980s English-language films 1980s romantic comedy-drama films American anthology films American romantic comedy-drama