|
Users viewing this topic:
none
|
|
Login  | |
|
Woody Allen - 11/25/2008 1:52:33 PM
|
|
|
stellaluna
Posts: 4409
Joined: 4/11/2005
Status: online
|
I was reminded today how much I love "Sleeper." I've enjoyed a lot of his work, including but not limited to:
Hannah and Her Sisters
Radio Days
Shadows and Fog
Annie Hall
Any other fans here?
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Woody Allen - 11/25/2008 1:58:09 PM
|
|
|
HighPlainsDrifter
Posts: 1299
Joined: 9/22/2005
From: The Great Sioux Empire
Status: offline
|
Take The Money And Run
Bananas
_____________________________
Give a hoot, eat yer Lute, Der's no risk in Lutefisk.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Woody Allen - 11/26/2008 12:06:52 PM
|
|
|
backrowbaptist
Posts: 440
Joined: 6/7/2008
Status: online
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: stellaluna
I was reminded today how much I love "Sleeper." I've enjoyed a lot of his work, including but not limited to:
Hannah and Her Sisters
Radio Days
Shadows and Fog
Annie Hall
Any other fans here?
Purple Rose of Cairo, Bananas, Sleeper, Manhattan I liked. The rest I can give or take.
If you really want to hear him at his best, get ahold of a CD called "Woody Allen; The Night Club Years". It's only available on the net. It's absolutely hilarious stand up from the 60s.
_____________________________
Any of this gettin' through to you, son?
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Woody Allen - 11/26/2008 12:25:14 PM
|
|
|
stellaluna
Posts: 4409
Joined: 4/11/2005
Status: online
|
Yeah, but is it Hannah and Her Sisters where he thinks he has the brain tumor because his ear hurts? That kills me!
I'll check out that video. Allen is the one who said that "comedy is tragedy and timing." I think he's right.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Woody Allen - 11/26/2008 2:51:44 PM
|
|
|
Jhud
Posts: 7588
Joined: 4/11/2005
From: Lake Wobegon
Status: online
|
Woody Allen is a rat morally, and I was sadly disappointed with his escapades with the woman he is now married to, I have to say their really aren't many filmakers who ar willing to consider the questions he asks. He has fallen into a bit of a rut lately, but I really thought at the mid-point of his career, Stardust Memories, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors were among the most thoughtful explorations of morality and meaning I have ever seen on screen.
The last movie I have seen of his that I really enjoyed was Bullets Over Broadway; it seems like a lot of his later efforts just lack heart.
_____________________________
Jack
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- C.S. Lewis
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Woody Allen - 11/26/2008 8:07:49 PM
|
|
|
stellaluna
Posts: 4409
Joined: 4/11/2005
Status: online
|
I think that's a very good summation.
(So many entertainers are morally rat-like that I pretty much ignore anything they do outside of their work. Or I try to.)
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Woody Allen - 11/26/2008 11:37:28 PM
|
|
|
Auben
Posts: 1605
Joined: 4/13/2005
From: Where pines tower and cranberries float
Status: online
|
I'm usually disappointed by Woody Allen.
I did like Sleepers, but mostly when it was over-the-top. Radio Days was dull and Annie Hall so neurotic that I spent most of the time looking at her clothes and ignoring the characters.
Maybe I'll find one I like some day.
_____________________________
Tamara
~Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time~
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Woody Allen - 11/27/2008 6:58:26 AM
|
|
|
humbleinspirit
Posts: 17768
Joined: 4/13/2005
From: Just Outside of Boston
Status: offline
|
Take The Money and Run is a classic!
_____________________________
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Woody Allen - 11/28/2008 2:33:26 AM
|
|
|
aslouie
Posts: 710
Joined: 5/15/2005
From: Los Angeles, CA.
Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: Jhud
Woody Allen is a rat morally, and I was sadly disappointed with his escapades with the woman he is now married to, I have to say their really aren't many filmakers who ar willing to consider the questions he asks. He has fallen into a bit of a rut lately, but I really thought at the mid-point of his career, Stardust Memories, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors were among the most thoughtful explorations of morality and meaning I have ever seen on screen.
The last movie I have seen of his that I really enjoyed was Bullets Over Broadway; it seems like a lot of his later efforts just lack heart.
Well, interesting to note that since Allen is now around his early 70's, it seems the comedic genius behind Sleepers and Bullets Over Broadway is feeling a lot more neurotic, now that his indulgence in dark humor is starting to look... well, dark and full of melancholy, now that the bloke (or shall I say schmuck) who married his own stepdaughter (perhaps to fulfill his post-middle age, "What's-Up-Tiger-Lilly?" fantasies) is feeling death is knocking at his door at an even more frequent rate--especially after (Woody Allen) saying that not only is there no God, but no plumbers on a Sunday; I'm guessing Allen will have to reconsider his options as of late...  
_____________________________
With fame I became more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
--Albert Einstein
That's hot.
--Paris Hilton
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Woody Allen - 11/28/2008 3:42:41 AM
|
|
|
henny
Posts: 1167
Joined: 4/15/2005
From: MN
Status: offline
|
The only films he's done in the past 10 years that are worth seeing are "Matchpoint" and "Vicky Christina Barcelona" (I'd put Matchpoint along side his best, in fact). Everything else is either awful (most of his comedies), or a good idea with mediocre execution (the 1/2 comedy, 1/2 drama one was OK, but not great. I can't remember its name). But before "Matchpoint" you'd have to go all the way back to "Sweet and Lowdown" to find a film he did that was worth seeing (and "Sweet and Lowdown," was just OK, not great).
But that said, he has more classics or near classics under his belt than any other living director right now: Sleeper, Manhattan, Shadows and Fog, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bullets over Broadway, Interiors, etc, etc, etc. He also had a longer run in terms of quality/quantity than most other directors, as from about 1975 to 1995 he released almost a film a year and most of them were great.
I usually still see most everything he releases, even if I know it probably won't be good, just because I like him as a director.
My favorite comedy of his has always been "Love and Death." It's a screwball parody of Russian novels, existentialist philosophy, and Ingmar Bergman films -and it's probably the only time that I have EVER laughed at slapstick (some of the slapstick in it is genius).
_____________________________
Hell is other Christians.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Woody Allen - 12/1/2008 2:21:55 PM
|
|
|
Jhud
Posts: 7588
Joined: 4/11/2005
From: Lake Wobegon
Status: online
|
quote:
The only films he's done in the past 10 years that are worth seeing are "Matchpoint" and "Vicky Christina Barcelona" (I'd put Matchpoint along side his best, in fact). Everything else is either awful (most of his comedies), or a good idea with mediocre execution (the 1/2 comedy, 1/2 drama one was OK, but not great. I can't remember its name). But before "Matchpoint" you'd have to go all the way back to "Sweet and Lowdown" to find a film he did that was worth seeing (and "Sweet and Lowdown," was just OK, not great).
I have to admit I thought Matchpoint was barely more than a remake of Crimes and Misdemeanors, and not as enjoyable.
_____________________________
Jack
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- C.S. Lewis
|
|
|
|
 New Messages |
 No New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/ New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/o New Messages |
 Locked w/ New Messages |
 Locked w/o New Messages |
|
 Post New Thread
Reply to Message
Post New Poll
Submit Vote
Delete My Own Post
Delete My Own Thread
Rate Posts |
|
|
Forum Tools
Printable Version
Just trying to figure out what would be a Woody Allen movie with more general audience appeal.)
