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