If you enjoy fine architecture and beautiful photography, you can enjoy one stop shopping in Woody Allen’s superb movie, Manhattan, thanks to the efforts of America’s greatest film maker and his cinematographer Gordon Willis. George Gershwin’s music rounds out this masterpiece. Here are some stills:

For once, monochrome – a usually pretentious and tired medium used as an excuse for mediocrity – works well here.

And, when you are done, contemplate Things That Really Matter, while on the couch:

My list for photographers?

• HCB’s man jumping over the puddle
• Anything by Norman Parkinson
• Guy Bourdin’s outrageous fantasies
• This month’s issue of Harper’s
• Hoyningen-Heune’s stark compositions
• Doisneau’s romantic Paris