Friends and I are working our way through a Woody Allen box set. "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex" wasn't as funny as I'd hoped, but the long riff on the runaway tit had me loling. "Manhattan" was both funnier and more serious than I remembered. Seems to be wiser every time I watch it, which maybe just means I get a little older every day.
Looking forward to "Love and Death" and "Stardust Memories," neither of which I've seen.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Two of my favorites!
― Of course I want frosting. I'm a Scorpio. (kenan), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
"Manhattan," I understand, is the one film that Woody himself hates. He didn't want it released, iirc. It's probably my favorite Woody movie. I theorize that he hates it because it's too close.
― Of course I want frosting. I'm a Scorpio. (kenan), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Stardust Memories is awesomely ugly, has some of his funniest/most vicious imagery in it
― strange asses outside liquor stores (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Manhattan's neck-and-neck with Annie Hall as his best imho
wow, he hates manhattan? that explains his last 20 movies or so
― Dominique, Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/sdm2.jpg
― strange asses outside liquor stores (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I detest that movie. That should have been Woody's face photoshopped over the Vietcong guy.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
HOOS, presuming you haven't seen em, I'd watch Bob Hope in Monsieur Beaucaire before Love & Death, and 8-1/2 before Stardust Memories. Then you'll see exactly what he was goin' for.
SM was widely detested on its release but I've come to admire its balls; it certainly doesn't succeed like Annie Hall and Manhattan, but at least he was stepping outside his comfort zone with every other film (ie Interiors).
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree that SM doesn't quite work, but I also agree about the vicious imagery. I like it a lot. But then, I'm a fan.
― Of course I want frosting. I'm a Scorpio. (kenan), Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
That image is violently overstated. He may have been trying Something Else, but he hadn't a clue yet.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
still hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV2N4KSh3x4
― piscesx, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
I started watching Interiors and tbh I did find it kind of funny, the people are all so ridiculous, this peculiarly cold WASP-y self-absorption gone to rot
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
even so I didn't make it to the end. maybe later.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
Sam Waterston as a Maoist is hilarious!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
and Geraldine Page fluttering about a vase I could pick up at Pottery Barn for $9.99
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
haha yes to both
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
I think an underrated "serious" Allen movie is Another Woman.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
you made this error earlier this year, Alfred -- Waterston plays a documentarian whose subject is a Maoist.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
Maureen Stapleton's introductory scenes are very funny
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius),
my version is funnier
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
ok
― xzanfar, Monday, 7 December 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link