In 1989, The Walt Disney Company produced an anthology film that banded together two of the most celebrated filmmakers in history. New York Stories, featuring two shorts by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, is meant as a love letter to the Big Apple, but in reality, it's more or less an experiment to allow these master filmmakers to team up. Still, this level of artistic curiosity is neglected in Disney's current business model. v

New York Stories, which also includes a short by a purebred New Yorker, Woody Allen, tracks one filmmaker in Scorsese on the upswing heading into his middle years and another in Coppola suffering from an unclear vision that signaled his future late-period work.