Woody Allen's "To Rome With Love" w/ Juno, Zuckerberg, Joan Frost/Lee, Jack Donaghy etc...

...once known as both Bop Decameron and Nero Fiddled.

Trailer's Out

Set photos & Soundtrack info

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/to-rome-with-love-woody-allen-penelope-cruz-image.jpg

yuck

just a little squeeze

was about to make a thread for this. it... looks pretty good! judy davis!!

this thread title sucks. nobody would ever search for 'woodman' and to rome with love is gonna get you a zillion results. leave it to the pros, mccain

judy davis!!

Totally. I love her in Deconstructing Harry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOr08Cefpc4

"DONT... answer me, prick!"

this thread title sucks.

This. Can a mod change it? I had no idea what it was even in reference to until I saw something about To Rome With Love elsewhere that reminded me of the title.

Effing psyched about Judy Davis, btw. Her role in Husbands & Wives might be my favorite performance in a Woody Allen movie.

sorry but i will watch anything will penelope cruz in it

I was trying to figure...this is his, what, 43rd? 44th film? Holy crap. I can't believe I've seen almost 40 Woody Allen films. More than that, I can't believe that none of those 40-ish films were outright shit (although there are a handful I have no particular desire to revisit).

title change request submitted.

title change request DENIED

idk about this. i like his more focused movies out of the late period. sweet and lowdown is my favorite!

jesus that was already 13 years ago

i wasnt gonna say

Thread title sucks, iirc "woodman" is a porn thing?

Also why you gotta be mean to Ellen Page?

bill murray used to call him "woodman" on snl

Man that must have brought him to the top of searches in google in the late 1970s

so not seeing this

Effing psyched about Judy Davis, btw. Her role in Husbands & Wives might be my favorite performance in a Woody Allen movie.

I agree and have written so before but this is tempered by the knowledge that in Celebrity he wrote her most embarrassing role to date.

it's been so so so long since i really felt that i made the right call in seeing a woody allen movie :(

i laughed a few times at this trailer, which i definitely couldnt say for midnight in paris. get the fuck outta here with that positive ions shit

http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/07/13/130005-u-s-director-woody-allen-reacts-during-the-shooting-of-the-movie.jpg

:/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkbphQCjFQs

enjoyed the trailer for this, i also enjoyed midnight in paris

w/alison pill. love alison pill. a whole bunch of the cast of this are people who i will gravitate towards movies they feature in.

it's funny how greta gerwig kinda rose as a hyperreal actor & is now doing sorta mannered/'removed' non-naturalistic, stillman/allen stuff.

Woody's first onscreen role since Scoop (2006) -- though doesn't the presence of Jesse Eisenberg make him kind of redundant?

Eisenberg is Woody's avatar so he can mack on Gerwig & Page. Allen even said something to the effect of "I'm too old to do the romantic stuff myself, so that's where the young folks come in."

Looks like another threeway.

schlump did u see the Stillman?

not yet, it's out next month, here. i saw some of a trailer i was trying to avoid & caught her in stillman-mode. how about you? i'm imagining i'll be into it, really.

she's also doing this. http://www.vulture.com/2012/04/lola-versus-poster-greta-gerwig-joel-kinnaman.html. looks shitty.

http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/07/13/130005-u-s-director-woody-allen-reacts-during-the-shooting-of-the-movie.jpg

― buzza, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

seeing this shortly, but forbidden to discuss "on social media platforms" til next week.

his next one's set in San Francisco! working his way back to Gotham.

this isnt a social media platform!

filled with dread about this tbh

oh, ISN'T it? xp

Sally Hawkins is gonna be in the new one!

Starring Jason Biggs as time traveling Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I assume.

this is gonna be garbage

The social media world is desperately, anxiously awaiting reviews of To Rome With Love and will not be denied.

should have thought to prohibit discussion on antisocial platforms

his next one's set in San Francisco! working his way back to Gotham.

see this sounds sorta promising but i can also imagine it being the backdrop for some awful shouts & murmurs whatever worksy kinda take on bohemianism. this is the one w/louis ck though, so otoh there's that.

filled with dread boredom about this tbh

we should have a competition to see which ilxer can proclaim how over this movie they are already the most vehemently

i thought we already were! i already wasted my most devastating bon mot!

morbs can judge cuz he's seen it

that's never been a requirement for him before

what a world we live in now

I thought everything until September was good -- I staggered out of that one in '87, amazed that he'd made a clunker. I never could have imagined there'd be a decade where I'd pass up almost all of his films.

I'm amused by the critics saying it's not certain if Alec Baldwin is seeing his past life in his segment of TRwL, which could be true on paper, but LOL Jesse Eisenberg aging into Baldwin.

Was September the one he filmed twice?

bad fims can diminish the good ones, sometimes. weak qualities that eventually grew insufferable will stick out in hindsight.

― da croupier, Friday, June 22, 2012 5:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

arent you a huge depalma stan?

I thought everything until September was good -- I staggered out of that one in '87, amazed that he'd made a clunker. I never could have imagined there'd be a decade where I'd pass up almost all of his films.

I'm amused by the critics saying it's not certain if Alec Baldwin is seeing his past life in his segment of TRwL, which could be true on paper, but LOL Jesse Eisenberg aging into Baldwin.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, June 22, 2012 5:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

post-september we've still got hannah and her sisters, husbands & wives, sweet & lowdown... lots of good stuff

The issue seems to be that even Woody Allen doesn't seem to know why he keeps making movies. He's like Dylan: always on tour, some nights OK, some nights terrible, but at his best a far cry from what everyone loves about him. And his voice is shot.

he's been writing shit scripts for years, guys

the weird thing is his non-script writing is still funny

Yeah, noted that. Do not dread his New Yorker appearances.

Downswing started with Mighty Aphrodite.

Hannah was before September btw

his last nyer thing was so fucking bad. the guy pitching a movie. awful.

m'bad

hey, he's 76, ppl could stop giving him work.

I think he'll always find a producer so long as he can come in on budget, pull in popular 'name' actors at cut-rates, and eke out a profit by the time the worldwide distribution and video sales have been tabulated. What kind of budget is he typically given these days?

his dad lived to 100, so if he has good genes, we could see about 20 more woody movies. brace yourselves.

IMDB says that Midnight In Paris was made for $17 mil, which I imagine is about the norm for his last several films. (Box Office Mojo only supplies info for one more--You Will Meet..., which was a $22 mil.)

The thing is, as implied in the (quite good btw) Longworth interview, is that he hasn't had a studio deal since his set-up with Dreamworks. The European films happened because he was approached by European producers, who put up the money, and American distribution deals came later. He goes on to say that he himself is financing the Frisco film at the moment, and will be doing so unless someone steps in.

xpost

although it's not that hard to put financing together when you are guaranteed american and european distribution as he pretty much is.

That is true, but it will be independent money. This should be taken w/a grain of salt, since lines from the Woodman are my source on this, but despite the success of MIP, he probably won't see full studio patronage again. I'm guessing at this, but I think Sony Pictures Classics (who've handled most of his recent films) mainly provide completion and exploitation funds in addition to distribution.

I think Woody should snort a grain of salt tbh

He'd just sneeze in the shaker tho.

Mother Jones reviewer not keen:

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2012/06/film-review-to-rome-with-love-woody-allen-ellen-page

I could have sworn Woody has been shooting in Europe to circumvent American film unions and their wages? Same with some of his choice of crew? Dunno where I read that.

arent you a huge depalma stan?

yep, and i like plenty of his later work, actively like a lot of his quirks and don't think they're remotely the problem. did you actually have a point or are just kind of flailing to defend the woodster?

i was actually just pondering whether i would prefer depalma had allen's output, even if it potentially meant a dropoff in quality and/or increase of redundancy, familiarity, etc. might be harder to be a snake eyes fan if there were four inferior snake eyes-type films released in a 15 year window, not to mention 5 black dahlias

then again once a year i'd get some steadicam action

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTQVGL0O0AchW1mRBs1oHGrdQoIkzCo_-nuHzAwZL5OxY9K9L12

this actually sounds like the first allen film i can actually imagine wanting to see in forever

Woody's been anti-union his whole career. he was punched out by a teamster early on or something iirc...? Morbz?

i was actually just pondering whether i would prefer depalma had allen's output, even if it potentially meant a dropoff in quality and/or increase of redundancy, familiarity, etc. might be harder to be a snake eyes fan if there were four inferior snake eyes-type films released in a 15 year window, not to mention 5 black dahlias

― da croupier, Saturday, June 23, 2012 9:30 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i kinda like snake eyes too :/

anyway i just feel there should be at least one defender in this all-too-easy conventional-wisdom pile-on

randomly jabs at random comments is a pretty weak defense. besides, dude's a regular oscar nominee, i wouldn't bothering saving that ho from "conventional wisdom".

randomly jabbing, i mean.

how is "aw sweet and lowdown is good" any less cw than "he's sucked for a long time"?

im not sure how to answer that tbh

Woody's been anti-union his whole career. he was punched out by a teamster early on or something

I have no info on this

would like to see that footage.

just saw Woody in the flesh shooting a scene down the street from my house

rad

was he wearing a hat & directing or wearing a shirt & acting?

http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/14/51/07/3314114/5/628x471.jpg

a return to form

he was talking to some PA while they were setting up the shoot - green sweatshirt, Gilligan hat, etc

20th and Lexington

it was weird cuz in a way when I was young I always wanted to live in a neighborhood in a Woody Allen movie and now I guess I do

watched this film again tonight. it is a masterpiece.

just kidding, but parts were fun. i especially liked the pseudo-liberal, super-condescending young lawyer, michaelangelo, who tries to discourage his father's dreams of being an opera singer by insisting that he is "just a simple man."

This was not very good. A few funny lines though.

"don't you see! this situation is fraught with peril!"

Sometimes (such as with lines like that) I wonder if Woody is even trying any more. I think he saved the best lines for himself in this one.

Not good but better than its predecessor.

ouch