“Manhattan,” Woody Allen’s cinematic love letter to his hometown, was released in 1979 and nominated for two Academy Awards the following year. But you would think it belonged to the 2018 awards season, given how much it is being quoted and discussed these days.

There was Seth Meyers, who hosted the Golden Globes in January, inserting a “Manhattan” joke into his opening monologue.

Last November, the writer Claire Dederer published a 5,000-word, much-talked-about essay in The Paris Review in which she re-examined “Manhattan,” a movie she had been “unable to watch” for years.

Talking about the year in film, meanwhile, Greta Gerwig, who is nominated for two Oscars at the Academy Awards ceremony this Sunday as the writer and director of “Lady Bird,” noted the way Mr. Allen’s movies, “Manhattan” among them, “have informed me as an artist.”