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Love this movie
― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 14 January 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
I think I own that shirt.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 January 2013 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
whatever works was actually the worst movie i have ever seen
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
lost in america is a total classic tho. "in that movie, santy claus came, and he fixed everything. we don't have santy claus."
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
there was macy's, gimbles -- but santy claus.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
A bird lives in a round stick.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
Woody Allen made at least a handful of films that are better than anything either Brooks ever did, and he can piss on celluloid and call it comedy for the rest of his life for all I care.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
so I got a couple chuckles outta this, but relying on "Fox News" as a punchline... he's writing for elderly Democrats and ILXors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/opinion/sunday/hypochondria-an-inside-look.html
Gothamist grossed out by "hickey" riff.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
every time I catch "Manhattan" it looks like Mariel Hemingway has gotten even younger than the last time I saw it. Some sick Dorian Gray black magic curse or something.
― Cunga, Saturday, 2 March 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/CPeahRf.gifi made a gif
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Sunday, 10 March 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/woody-allen-extremely-busy-updating-woodyallencom,32352/
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 10 May 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
One of the things Allen is shrewdest about is money. His films typically cost about $18 million to make, which is next to nothing these days. Most of them go on to make a modest profit—if not in the United States, then when they're shown worldwide—and once in a while he has a hit on the order of Midnight in Paris. It's a fairly foolproof formula, even if it seems to have little appeal to the studios now, who would rather make bigger bets in hopes of bigger payouts. Allen's modest budgets enable him to retain total control of his films, something that's seldom granted to directors anymore, and to be flexible when it comes to probably his greatest strength as a director: casting memorable actors in memorable parts. "I'm not in the hit-flop business," he explained. "I make a film and if it's a big hit it's not going to do anything special for me. If it's a disaster it won't ruin anything, because I'll already be working on the next. The people who play the hit-flop game suffer a lot when they have the flops. I don't, but then I don't get the highs either."
..."You know in a mental institution they sometimes give a person some clay or some basket weaving?" he said. "It's the therapy of moviemaking that has been good in my life. If you don't work, it's unhealthy—for me, particularly unhealthy. I could sit here suffering from morbid introspection, ruing my mortality, being anxious. But it's very therapeutic to get up and think, Can I get this actor; does my third act work? All these solvable problems that are delightful puzzles, as opposed to the great puzzles of life that are unsolvable, or that have very bad solutions. So I get pleasure from doing this. It's my version of basket weaving."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323469804578523611076250442.html
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 June 2013 08:49 (ten years ago) link
i've always identified w/ that aspect of woody's worldview/personality.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 1 July 2013 08:09 (ten years ago) link
Me too.
― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Monday, 1 July 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
"there is no such thing as a really bad Woody Allen movie"
o rlly
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 July 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
kinda curious about the Great Recession angle on the new one, vs my better judgment.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 July 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
looks like he's really nailed that down-and-out, working class, living-on-the-cheap feel of San Francisco in 2013
― chinavision!, Monday, 1 July 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
yeah, no one not rich lives anywhere in san francisco anymore
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 July 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
it looks a bit less farcical, more substantive, than his most recent films. whether this is a good thing, idk. the working class tuffs seem embarrassingly hackneyed and i am afraid that they are a bad omen.
― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Monday, 1 July 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
yeah I agree it looks a little like he went with outdated, stock working class characters. Hoping maybe that's a deliberate choice?
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 July 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
Like does anyone even use phony as a noun anymore?
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 July 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
idk. in "to rome with love" he proved that he cannot write convincing dialogue for educated millenials. they were all obsessed with psychoanalytic buzzwords like "repression" and basically sounded like twentysomething intellectuals from the 70s and i don't think this was deliberate.
― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Monday, 1 July 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
still, i am going to see this as soon as it comes out. i am loyal to the woody allen brand and unlike alfred and a few others on this board i did find midnight in paris enjoyable.
― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Monday, 1 July 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
I don't care so much about generational veracity in his films -- he seems to have stopped finding out about "new stuff" in 1972 (earlier for music) -- but the reheated concepts and dialogue have been mostly deadly.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 July 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
I would see this one. The plot/concept actually appeals to me. I like when he writes against Hollywood redemption cliches in human relationships (e.g. Crimes and Misdemeanors) and it seems like that's where this one is going.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 July 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
when I saw the trailer I kinda figured "huh, so it's san francisco from the 70s"of course I'll see it, cuz I wish I lived in sf in the 70s
― chinavision!, Monday, 1 July 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
"who will see this" roll call
― chinavision!, Monday, 1 July 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
I don't think there was Virgin Airlines in the 70s.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 July 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
Watched Stardust Memories again the other night - I imagine it to be one of the more maligned movies of his classic era, but I still love it. It's a great mess.
― my eventual wife (stevie), Monday, 1 July 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
it's still sf in the 70sxpost
― chinavision!, Monday, 1 July 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
has there been a post-peak poll? say from after, i dunno Bullets Over Broadway or somesuch? if not i'd like to see one.
― piscesx, Monday, 1 July 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
wasn't his peak in like 1973 though?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 1 July 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
or, charitably, 1986
Crimes and Misdemeanors was like 89 or so. That is a high point if not "the" peak
― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Monday, 1 July 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link
I like the original thread topic though. My goal for the year is to date someone way smarter than me. I think that would be cool.
― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Monday, 1 July 2013 22:44 (ten years ago) link
smarter than Woody at any rate
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 July 2013 22:44 (ten years ago) link
Everyone Says I Love You would be my fave post-peak Allen film, but yeah, I mostly watch new Woody Allen films now in the same way that I sometimes watch newer episodes of The Simpsons: knowing they're not likely to be all that great, but still being able to catch the occasional glimpse of the old spark.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Monday, 1 July 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
I'm sure Woody's smart
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 July 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
xpost
Put another way, new Allen or Simpsons still > any Edward Burns or Family Guy.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Monday, 1 July 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
Midnight in Paris is bad Hallmark television.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 July 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
This was shot in my neighborhood, yknow, the one with the poor people, and I actually saw woody in action so I sort of have to see it. It will probably be bad tho.
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 1 July 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
i agree with treeship about 'crimes and misdemeanors,' it's prob my favorite. light-years better than 'match point,' for sure.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 1 July 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
Match Point is Crimes and Misdemeanours with kids.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
(and s&m)
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
and grade school symbolism and performances
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
It brings up an important moral question though: is murder okay?
― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 00:48 (ten years ago) link
...if the director's made a reprehensible film?
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 00:48 (ten years ago) link
i'm sad he likely doesn't have another Deconstructing Harry in him.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 02:17 (ten years ago) link
i loved everybody says i love you. and i loved vicky cristina barcelona. whatever works was execrable though, and midnight in paris was incredibly flawed, if charming in moments.
― my eventual wife (stevie), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 06:40 (ten years ago) link
i walked out on two of those films.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 07:15 (ten years ago) link