― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 19 May 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― k0nigsberg14 (slutsky), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
pretty much in order for me:stardust memories... the crown jewel.purple rose of cairo... the absurdist heartbreaker.annie hall... the pinnacle of neurosis.manhattan... the love letter.husbands and wives... the mature relationship dossier (and for my money, his best of the 90's, without hesitation)
of the "earlier, funnier work" i pick play it again, sam - although not directed by him, he wrote and starred in it and it's completely enjoyable slapstick measured by careful scenework and smart dialogue.
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sean Penn is great in that movie and I shall never forget how he always takes his girlfriends shooting rats.
Jan
― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
That's about it.Most of them make me urp. He always picks cool women to star in his flicks. Mira S. and Tia Leone, the latter of which who looks impossibly good in slacks...and who looks visibly sickened when she has to kiss WA in "Hollywood Ending."
"Deconstructing Harry" is simply one of the most odious films I've ever tried to watch, a truly nasty piece of work. So awful I cursed that fucking film the whole time I tried to fathom why he even bothered.
I'm also in the minority in that I find his earlier "funnier" works desperately unfunny.
"Sweet and " isn't bad; Elaine May in "Small Time Crooks" is perhaps the sexiest and most adorable of all Allen's wimmen.
He should have stopped after "Danny Rose." It's like a bad New Yorker story that won't quit. Altho Spike Lee is a far superior filmmaker, and quite interesting in his way, I get the same feeling, New York chauvinism run amok in a fantasy world that never quite conceals the ugly reality of its creator's neuroses.
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Sunday, 25 May 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Annie HallZeligSleeperManhattanLove and DeathHannah and Her SistersRadio DaysThe Purple Rose of CairoBroadway Danny RoseDeconstructing Harry
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
ZeligManhattanPurple Rose of Cairo
I haven't seen a few of the other ones, but those three are all completely great. Before Annie Hall, they're all pretty painful; I don't know yet when he started pumping out the not very good stuff, but so far Celebrity is the only post-Annie Hall one I've seen that I really completely tanked. (But I haven't seen all of them.)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 12 January 2006 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link
You hate fun!
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 January 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
*brain explodes*
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link
After that...
Annie HallCrimes & MisdemeanoursManhattanand loads more...
― stew!, Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Hannah is my favourite movie. Crimes & Mis, Zelig, Annie Hall and Brodway Danny Rose are great too. Bullets over Broadway and Everyone Says I Love You are great amongst the 90s stuff.
Did everyone love his speech at the Oscars a few years back? "Thanks, makes up for the strip search", haha what a legend.
― Beagle Boy (Beagle Boy), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Match Point, welcome to the club! Goddamn that was good movieing.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link
haven't seen a ton of them
― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Watching this tonight for the first time in like 14 years. I never caught that Howard Cosell is wearing his full standard ABC Sports blazer w/ official emblem & everything:
http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/7069/134115bananaslut5.jpg
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3950/bananas1rd4.jpg
― kingfish, Monday, 3 March 2008 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
the worst allen film?
hollywood endings. ugh.
― poortheatre, Sunday, 16 March 2008 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
In Love & Death, Diane Keaton loses her russian accent about 30 seconds into her first scene.
― kingfish, Thursday, 7 August 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Woody lost his before the first scene.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.citizencaine.org/filler/hannah-and-her-sisters.jpg
― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 8 August 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
That's my favorite, easily.
― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 8 August 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Hannah, that is.
― collardio gelatinous, Saturday, 9 August 2008 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link