― Tracer Hand, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― sundar subramanian, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The Gumball Rally, however, sucked horse knackers.
― ogden, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:44 (twenty years ago) link
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:15 (twenty years ago) link
and search Woody Allen stand-up comic, his stand-up stuff from the 60s is unbelievable.
"See this gold watch? This gold watch...my grandfather...on his deathbed...sold me this watch."
it's all in the timing...
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 06:21 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 25 March 2004 06:27 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 06:28 (twenty years ago) link
Woody Allen strode into his ambitious period by finally acknowledging his own attractiveness to women--by reversing the humor of sexual embarrassment that defined the early comedies and substituting the pain of romantic longing. Though this 1977 film is snobbish about social fads, its own attitudes often seem narrowly fashionable: the characters yearn for commitment but spend most of their energy on what once was known as "self-actualization." Visually and structurally it's a mess, but many of the situations are genuinely clever, and there are plenty of memorable gags. The perpetual problem is that Allen isn't nearly the thinker he thinks he is.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 March 2004 06:40 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 06:43 (twenty years ago) link
I mean, it's moments llike when he goes back to Annie's house to smash the bug. Again, maybe it has something to do with my own life, but that stuff is so on the money about relationships in a way that few movies before or after have been.
Love and Death is a brilliant comedy with great gags and great imagery and all, but it doesn't hit close to home. Now maybe if I were a cossack...
I wonder what it would've been like to see it in 1977. I suppose I was lucky enough to see it at a young age, watching it now, every attitude, every joke, every gripe, every criticism has been done to death in a 1,000 ways, but never as good.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 07:13 (twenty years ago) link
I love this movie, by the way. The last time I saw it, I cried during the lobster scene.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 March 2004 07:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 25 March 2004 08:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 25 March 2004 08:45 (twenty years ago) link
"My brother was killed in the war by a Polish conscientious objector."
etc.
― Bunged Out (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago) link
"This is my Grammy Hall""Grammy? You call her Grammy?" ........"And this is my brother Duane""Duane?"
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:54 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago) link
manhattan's better. he hates it of course.
― piscesboy, Thursday, 25 March 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 25 March 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link
totally! fun fact: annie hall was originally conceived of/shot as a MURDER MYSTERY!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link
― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:11 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 March 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
Beyond classic.
and I love star wars too.
― hector (hector), Friday, 26 March 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link
(I don't remember the lobster scene . . .)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 27 March 2004 05:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 27 March 2004 05:29 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 27 March 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 27 March 2004 05:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
9-year-old Alvy to doctor: “The universe is everything, and if it’s expanding, someday it will break apart and that would be the end of everything.”Mom: “What is that your business?”
I showed this scene, once a year on Woody's birthday, to grade 6 classes for a decade. (Going right up to my favorite part--"He won't do his homework"/"What's the point?"--which I sincerely believed at least some of the kids would get.) I don't recall more than a couple of kids laughing. I'd then try to explain the absurdity of the scene. Still nothing. I finally gave up and switched to a YouTube clip of the subway scene in Bananas last year.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
you sre trying to turn pubescents into 40-year-old analysands, i'm convinced
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
This is like the ultimate date movie.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
spent a fair amout of time in those vanished movie theatres... including an Allen marathon in the New Yorker circa 1979-80.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
god I loved the Thalia...we used to cut class at Columbia and go for all day one price movie marathons, and you could smoke in the back! Bliss....
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sighhhh
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
I finally gave up and switched to a YouTube clip of the subway scene in Bananas last year.
You showed a scene of an old woman reading WA's copy of Orgasm to 6th graders?
― Eric H., Wednesday, 15 August 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
otoh, the Thalia's floor sloped upward toward the screen.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
You sent me scurrying back to the clip to check--that shot's right at the end, so it was easy to stop the clip well before that. (xpost)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/u5aMAoEbFl0/hqdefault.jpg
― aerosmith suck because their corporate rock that sucks (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
My friend played little Alvy Singer, and his brother played the kid in Stardust Memories!
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
whoa!
i was gonna say your friend's brother is seth green but that was radio days.
still that's hella cool.
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, Jon did Annie Hall and his brother Robert was in Stardust Memories...great guys.
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 16 August 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
one of the Bad News Bears played Woodykid in Love & Death
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
oh man, i loved Bad News Bears....
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 16 August 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/04/annie-hall-40th-anniversary-woody-allen-carol-kane-marshall-brickman
If I'm reading this right Allen ditched an hour of filmed material. I'm sure he did the right thing for the movie but jeez I bet those offcuts are better than anything he's done in the past few years.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 20 April 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Anhedonia: All the Trims
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 April 2017 19:54 (seven years ago) link
The only remnants of these high-concept deleted scenes are images preserved on lobby cards that were produced at the time to be displayed in movie theaters. One was a basketball game between the New York Knicks and history’s great philosophers, including Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
https://breadcity.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/annie-hall-basketball.jpg
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 April 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
lolz
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 April 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
screenplay draft (which at a skim seemed full of extra unused stuff) and tons more here!
https://cinephiliabeyond.org/annie-hall-one-last-beautiful-american-films-pre-blockbuster-era/
― piscesx, Thursday, 20 April 2017 23:19 (seven years ago) link
i wonder if he'd seen this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nI1v7mwwA
― piscesx, Thursday, 20 April 2017 23:21 (seven years ago) link
(from the above Cinephilia piece)
https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/5.jpg
― piscesx, Thursday, 20 April 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
I'll be at a 25-year dinner tonight that my board puts on every year. But the whole time I'll be thinking about the Raptors-Warriors game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxahqTnafM8
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 November 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2019/04/25/world/universe-expanding-faster-scn/index.html
More unfinished homework.
http://wondersinthedark.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/annie-hall-3.jpg
― clemenza, Friday, 26 April 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
adding the universe to "sun, milk, red meat, college"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 April 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link
I did not know this
Woody Allen's Annie Hall includes a scene in which Alvy (Allen) and Annie (Diane Keaton) are observing passersby in the park. Alvy comments, "Oh, there's the winner of the Truman Capote Look-Alike Contest". The passerby is actually Truman Capote (who appeared in the film uncredited).
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
i've read that before, was skeptical
pre-stardom Sigourney Weaver is in it (no lines)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
I'm sure I'll get grief for playing anything having to do with Woody Allen in a school setting, but I would always play the expanding-universe scene for students whenever that subject came up (they hardly ever laughed). I got back from a planning today, and the grade 7 class I was in for was finishing up with their language teacher, talking about a poem having to do with large spiders. So of course I thought of the spider scene in Annie Hall.
Didn't have time to check it, but I thought: "Any language?" (pretty sure not); "Any drugs?" (possibly, I think Diane Keaton lights up a joint--I can skip past that); "Anything sexual" (don't think so). All I could think of were two jokes: the spider as big as a Buick, and the one where Allen asks Keaton if she wants him to rehabilitate the spider. Seemed innocuous enough, and students don't know Woody Allen from Toy Story Woody. So I played it. I was right on those three questions, but halfway through he finds Keaton's black soap and makes a minstrel joke.
Jesus...This is the second time this has happened to me in a year (the other a Culture Club video). I will eventually get it through my thick skull not to play anything older than five or ten years unless you check it first.
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link