Woody Allen fans?

[joplinfrk]

I know that there is a thread on him and his wife, Sun Yi, but I didn't see anything about him and his movies. I haven't seen anything past, Scoop but it seems to me that he is losing "it".
My favorite of his are: Deconstructing Harry, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Small Time Crooks, Radio Days, Shadows and Fog and Alice. Well, most of his older stuff, I guess.
Living here in NY is like living in one of his movies and I consider myself lucky.
Any other fans of his movies? Please keep in mind that there is already a thread about the scandal so let's just talk movies and such...or not. Thoughts?

[ichabodius]

I love Sleeper, Everything You Wanted To Know Aboute Sex and Take the Money and Run.

[cleanskull]

His early 70's movies with Diane Keaton were always fun to watch with your favorite adulterant. Bannanas, Sleeper, ETYWTKASBWATA (the sex movie), Love and Death. Always made me crack up.

[joplinfrk]

Ah, Sleeper..LOL. I remember that, too. It scared me as a kid.

[cleanskull]

Ah, Sleeper..LOL. I remember that, too. It scared me as a kid.

As a kid. Ouch.

[John Connor]

The last few years has been hit and miss. He was at his most powerful in the 90's with films like Crimes and Misdemeanours and Husbands and Wives but I love all his stuff.

[Guest]

I am a fan! Generally I prefer the 70's and 80's stuff, but will watch whatever he does. He has a talent.

[jlm709]

I love Sleeper. and the Orgasmatron. (did I spell that right? lol)

[Guest]

I love Sleeper. and the Orgasmatron. (did I spell that right? lol)

You did!

[jlm709]

yeaaa me!

[Cubican]

I can't stand the guy, HOWEVER the movie "Picking Up The Pieces" is the funniest shit ever!

[michihunt]

I liked the Purple Rose of Cairo. Other than that, I just don't get him.

[TallulahDahling]

The neurotic New Yorker schtick is a bit moldy if you ask me. He does deserve his place in movie-making history but what he did to Mia was unforgivable.

[Sam]

I love Sleeper. and the Orgasmatron. (did I spell that right? lol)

If you asked me about a Woody Allen movie that's the only part of any of his movies I can remember.

[neilmpenny]

As a film maker I don't mind him but the neurosis thing is wearing a bit thin.

[Giada]

I am a Woody Allen admirer ... Hannah and Her Sisters, Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Cassandra's Dream, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Radio Days, Mighty Aphrodite ...

Looking forward to his newest ... "Whatever Works."

[joplinfrk]

Purple Rose of Cairo was great! "I'm Alabammy bound....." LOL. Also Manhattan Murder Mystery is a fav, too. Wild Man Blues was interesting if you like Dixieland Jazz music. Oh, and I loved Samantha Morton as "Hattie" in Sweet and Lowdown.

[tamiele]

The neurotic New Yorker schtick is a bit moldy if you ask me. He does deserve his place in movie-making history but what he did to Mia was unforgivable.

Couldn't have said it better.

[Long Gone Day]

The neurotic New Yorker schtick is a bit moldy if you ask me. He does deserve his place in movie-making history but what he did to Mia was unforgivable.

As a film maker I don't mind him but the neurosis thing is wearing a bit thin.

Purple Rose of Cairo was great! "I'm Alabammy bound....." LOL. Also Manhattan Murder Mystery is a fav, too. Wild Man Blues was interesting if you like Dixieland Jazz music. Oh, and I loved Samantha Morton as "Hattie" in Sweet and Lowdown.

I still think there are such funny scenes in his old films, but the same theme began to bore me, too, and the same type of comedy. Not that it wasn't true, right?!? And still one of my favorite scenes is when he blows the cocaine all over, what was that, "Annie Hall?"

But for those reasons, I kind of like "Sweet and Lowdown" as my favorite. I liked that he did a more serious story.

[sablegsd]

Can't stand him or his movies.

[joplinfrk]

He is losing his touch. And it grosses me out that he is still the leading man in his movies. I had forgotten about Hollywood Ending and Celebrity, actually. He's not for everybody...

[ajlposh]

I perfer his earlier comedies

[Jack-O-Lantern]

I love Woody. I have every movie he's ever made...some not so good as others, especially recently (I'm not a fan of "Vicky Christina Barcelona").

Best of the best: "Love and Death." His deconstruction of Russian literature is spot-on and unbelievably hilarious. Also "Radio Days" and of course "Annie Hall" and the side-splitting "Bananas."

He's a genius.

[FloridaDeathHag]

He's hit and miss these days. Recently, I've loved Manhattan Murder Mystery, Everyone Says I Love You, and Match Point. I didn't like Vicki Christina Barcelona much, though I think Scarlett Johansson as his new "muse" is ok. I liked Manhattan, Hanna and Her Sisters, Annie Hall, Alice was good. Diane Keaton is a real treat in his films, her timing and ability to ad-lib and play off of him on screen makes her his most talented leading lady in my book. I almost always see his films in the theatre, but the last 5 years or so, I'm sometimes disappointed.

[RubySlippers]

ick. never have liked him much and have little opinion of his so called "genius".

[John Connor]

I don't get the word Genius but he is certainly unique and can be very very funny. Considering the recent death of Michael Jackson it seems Woody only needs to die. That way all the bad stuff people say about him will be forgotten and suddenly everyone will admit they secretly loved him. I think many lines that come from films that I remember are from Woody Allen. His New York neurotic guy to me is not moldy but classic. My one complaint is that his recent films often feel very rushed (exluding the ones with Scarlett Johansson). It's like he loses interest halfway through. Cassandra's Dream was actually a nightmare. Even Colin Farrell said he had never finished a film so quickly. Due to the recent Christina Ricci thread I rewatched Anything Else. Whenever Woody is not onscreen, again there is the feeling that they only did one take. Jason Biggs is particularily wooden at times.
I think he is a Master but he is getting old and a bit lazy.

[MoonRabbit]

I love Woody Allen!!!! He is extremely bright as a film maker/writer/director!

If anyone has the time watch "Manhattan Murder Mystery".
Do yourself a favor I thought it was hilarious and a great story!
Of course Diane Keaton happens to be one of my favorites also!
And she is in the film. Mia Farrow was supposed to be in the lead
but you know what happened at the time with her step daughter
and Woody.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Murder_Mystery

MANHATTAN is one of my all time favorites from Woody Allen!

There is a close up of Diane Keaton that will knock your eyes out.
Boy was she attractive in that film!!!

I heard his newest film is supposed to be good. Others have said
it is not?
???

There are others I like too. Let's not forget Annie Hall.

[John Connor]

He is losing his touch. And it grosses me out that he is still the leading man in his movies. I had forgotten about Hollywood Ending and Celebrity, actually. He's not for everybody...

Debra Messing is hilarious in Hollywood Ending. One thing Woody knows is actresses and he portrays them perfectly.

[More Cheese Please]

I worship Woody Allen. I even have a framed autographed pic of him hanging in my loungeroom! Annie Hall is hands down my fave movie of all time. I also love Manhatten. When I hear Gershwin's clarinet I get goosebumps.

Annie Hall is the BEST!!! I love Woody Allen... and I agree with your clarinet observation/feeling.... Fuck all the peripheral/personal life shit.... I enjoy his movies very much....I separate the "artist" from the "man".... and to be perfectly honest, I really don't have much disdain for the "man" in his private life... as unpopular as that opinion might be...meh...

[coconn04]

I kind of like this Woody Allen line.

The only way to be happy is to lie to yourself.

Also it seems that Woody is not taking to aging well.

Here is his Cannes interview.

AFP – US director Woody Allen and actress Naomi Watts arrive for the screening of "You Will Meet a Talk …
by Claire Rosemberg Claire Rosemberg – Sat May 15, 2:28 pm ET
CANNES, France (AFP) – "Life's a pretty grim enterprise, nightmarish, meaningless," Woody Allen said Saturday at Cannes. "The only way to be happy is to lie to yourself.

In his latest loopy offering -- star-studded "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger" -- the 74-year-old director offers an at once hilarious and typically bleak metaphysical take on countering death and adversity through illusion.

Set in London, the warmly acclaimed movie kicks off with a quote from Shakespeare -- "life's a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" -- and the Disney tune "If you wish upon a star your dreams come true."

The plot sees a power cast of characters hankering to change their lives.

Naomi Watt's character, Sally, wants to have a baby, open an art gallery and sleep with her boss (Antonio Banderas).
Her husband (Josh Brolin) hopes to get a novel published and sleep with a neighbour (Slumdog Millionaire"'s Freida Pinto).

Sally's father (Anthony Hopkins) wants to start a new Viagra-powered life with a very young call-girl (Lucy Punch) after divorcing elderly Gemma Jones.

She simply wants to get over being dumped to find a new life and "tall dark stranger", so goes to a fortune-teller for help after drugs and therapy fail and she winds up believing in the afterlife.

"I don't believe in fortune-tellers," Allen said at a news conference. "In the movie it may be funny but in real-life it's a multi-million business that takes advantage of people when they're vulnerable."
Delivered with his usual buckets of wry ambiguous humour, the movie seems to state that "one must have delusions to live", as Allen put it.

Even the title, he admitted, could refer to death or to a love-interest stranger.
"My relationship with death remains the same," he told the media. "I am strongly against it."

Asked whether he aimed to again play in one of his own movies as he used to, the US director said "I got too old. It's no fun not being the guy who gets the girl."

Growing old, he added, was painful. "It's a lousy deal. There is no advantage in getting older. You don't get smarter, wiser or more mellow.
"Your back hurts, you get more indigestion, you get a hearing aid. It's a bad business. I don't recommend it."

The movie is Allen's fourth set in London, where the grey skies, he said, were perfect for photography and where shooting was far less expensive than in the United States.

His next will be shot in France, starring Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard and French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
As if to announce a sequel, the Gemma Jones character states at the end that she loves France.

[Giada]

Looking forward to his newest, receiving decent reviews.

Whatever Works was worth viewing.

[Pat MaGroin]

Here is Woody's Autograph...

[JimC]

At 12 or 13 years of age, I LMAO at this in the theaters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fVJt9FToP4


This one too,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYfmRwryQo

The "Cuban" connection is obvious, Fidel is still there, Che' is gone...

[DietCokeofEvil]

Never cared much for him. I was bored by his movies. To each his own I guess...

[Ted Challinor]

He's a brilliant writer and film maker, and I love his cinematic view on life. Briefly, a memory of viewing one of his best films....in my 20s, in the summer of 1986, I was living on England's south coast, in Bournemouth, with relative strangers and really enjoying life. But then one Bank Holiday I had a big row with the one of the girls I was living with and was suddenly brought down and feeling very low; so I walked aimlessly into the town. Even though it was sunny I decided to buy a ticket for Allen's then latest film, Hannah & Her Sisters, and sat down hoping his latest work would cheer me up. It did - especially because, as those of you who know the film, his character's visit to see a Marx Brothers film mirrored my own experience right then. Art mirroring life in a minor way...
anyway, my favourite is Manhattan, in my own top ten films, and of course his early comedies are a hoot - my 8yo loves Sleeper - and I think his own slapstick acting owes 99% to Stan Laurel. Many of his more thoughtful films will be well-remembered as having outstanding scripts...Americans should feel proud of his artistic achievements, like us Brits should feel proud of Paul McCartney's music, whatever their private life failings,,,,,

[SquirrelNutZipper]

Interiors is my favorite Woody Allen movie with September coming in as a close second.
One thing though - the "world view" of Woody is quite clean and orderly. Manhattan is spotless. In fact, all of his movies are that way.

In Hannah and Her Sisters the apartments are absolutely breathtaking! People are dressed to the nines, perfect conversation, perfect martinis.

I wish my world was half as orderly.

[Giada]

Not every film I view has to knock it out of the park.

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger was an entertaining film, modestly so.

(As to current films, True Grit and Black Swan were absorbing)

[slingshot]

I stumbled across this and thought it was interesting...

Woody Allen and Mia Farrow's Son Becomes Rhodes Scholar.

Ronan Farrow, the biological son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, is one of 32 Rhodes Scholars representing the United States, as announced by the Rhodes Trust over the weekend.

Farrow, a former child prodigy, graduated with double majors in philosophy and biology from Bard College in 2004. He was the college’s youngest graduate at age 15.

[shipmatekate]

Love his films, so many gems in amongst them
Just love the scene in Radio Days where the kid takes the condom to show and tell

[theotherlondon]

I could watch Hannah and her Sisters over
and over again.

[gottaqhfilly]

Fuck no.

[RiaBrown]

The guy gives me the creeps. Blech.