The Movie: As a follow-up to his well-received Saint Jack, writer-director Peter Bogdanovich concocted this sophisticated, lighthearted 1981 paean to Manhattan and to two women he clearly adored — the nearly retired icon Audrey Hepburn and the promising starlet Dorothy Stratten, a former Playboy playmate with a magical aura of innocence who was murdered by her estranged husband before the movie was released. The story, about detectives (Ben Gazzara and John Ritter) assigned to shadow the unhappily married women, is mostly an excuse to map out a complex web of romantic-professional relationships, and is lovingly populated with charming and eccentric performers. The atlas of human foibles that results is exquisitely shot by Robby Müller in fluid long takes and shifting points of view; it's a wistful comic fantasia of love, orchestrated by a classic-minded auteur at the peak of his powers.

The Disc: The director's commentary is rich with inside information, including details on the affair between Hepburn and Gazzara, shooting on the undressed streets of New York, and the signature Bogdanovich glasses that Ritter wears. Also included is a filmed conversation between Bogdanovich and director Wes Anderson, an admirer of the movie.