could be the new one is best for fans of Parker Posey and Emma Stone
http://www.filmcomment.com/article/review-irrational-man-woody-allen
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 July 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
“I started the relationship with her and I thought it would just be a fling.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/07/woody-allen-soon-yi-previn
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2015 11:19 (eight years ago) link
"I was paternal,” he explains. “She responded to someone paternal. I liked her youth and energy. She deferred to me, and I was happy to give her an enormous amount of decision making just as a gift and let her take charge of so many things"
how deluded do you have to be to think this sounds like a reasonable defence and not utterly horrifying on every level?
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 31 July 2015 11:45 (eight years ago) link
http://www.tabletmag.com/wp-content/files_mf/humb.jpg
about yay far
― The Hunt for Gene October (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 July 2015 11:54 (eight years ago) link
narcissism is a common trait in child molesters
― five six and (man alive), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:14 (eight years ago) link
Well, Irrational Man was garbage, but I like pot-bellied Joaquin. Muy Joa-po.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 August 2015 02:36 (eight years ago) link
conflation of a 20+ year marriage to SoonYi (however strange and dubious) and the kid-molestation charges continues to make me sad that some of you fuckers vote.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 August 2015 03:00 (eight years ago) link
not conflating anything. Woody Allen is a child molester. Child molesters are often narcissistic. Woody Allen's description of his marriage to Soon-Yi suggests narcissism, which is wholly consistent with the entirely separate fact that he is a child molester.
― five six and (man alive), Monday, 3 August 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
oh, oh, you thought that when I called him a child molester I was referring to the fact that he married Soon-Yi! Sorry, I should have mentioned that he also molested a child.
― five six and (man alive), Monday, 3 August 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
glad we cleared that up
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 August 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
and I vote!
― five six and (man alive), Monday, 3 August 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
just ran the irrational man trailer (imagine the dogears these days on that 1975 copy of crime and punishment's cliff's notes) right after a trailer for a documentary on hiroshima; you can cut the bathos in here with a knife
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
Saw Irrational Man yesterday, it was fine - if you like Woody Allen I imagine you will like it. It's one of the Crime&Punishment plots, but the main character's arc is somewhat opposite Raskolnikov's which serves as variation. Joaquin Phoenix is good as disillusioned/cynical professor and Parker Posey was a pleasant surprise.
I saw it with a friend who's a programmer, after the film he asked me: "So how does all that philosophy and literature stuff hold up? 'Cause whenever I see depictions of coding in movies it's basically ridiculous". I told him I find it enjoyable even if it's all very superficial, and I think it works in Woody's movies.
If you're looking for nuanced conversation on Russian literature (or even just Dostojevski) or continental philosophy (or even just existentialism) you'll of course be disappointed - but I don't think Woody was ever very clever on those topics, and I don't think he's ever pretended to be, on the contrary I find his movies very unpretentious.
We were only five people in the theater, one was an old woman who after the movie struck up conversation - she was deeply moved by the ethical dilemmas and remembered having read C&P when she was young. I guess I was surprised anyone would take a movie like that so seriously, but we had a nice little conversation and I recommended she find a copy of Crimes & Misdemeanors.
― niels, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 07:29 (eight years ago) link
I think Crimes & Misdemeanors is worth taking seriously, fwiw. I actually think that movie had a big effect on my thinking about a lot of things relating to my self-conception as a nice/good person.
― five six and (man alive), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, Allen does that. If you like even one of his films, you should probably reevaluate your niceness.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/woody-allen-might-have-fired-bruce-willis.html
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
man alive, I agree it's worth taking seriously, it made a pretty big impression on me the first time I saw it, but it's also miles from Irrational Man, which is - pardon the phrase - Woody "light".
But what makes C&D a good movie imo is not that it deals with a lot of clever theory, but that it's a good psychological drama with esp Landau and Huston delivering great performances
― niels, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 09:31 (eight years ago) link
Can anyone recommend a Woody biography?
― niels, Monday, 28 September 2015 07:37 (eight years ago) link
24 years old, but the last one i read
http://www.ericlax.net/books/woodyallen_bio.htm
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 September 2015 11:20 (eight years ago) link
cool, I'll check it out!
― niels, Monday, 28 September 2015 11:46 (eight years ago) link
yeah, really enjoyed that - read it when I was a teenager, though it had the misfortune to be published at the exact moment that the soon-yi stuff surfaced iirc
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Monday, 28 September 2015 11:51 (eight years ago) link
I liked Marion Meade's 'The Unruly Life of Woody Allen', the focus is more on muckraking than analysis of his work, though it's not a total hatchet job.
there's an LRB article about the book here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n09/michael-wood/a-kind-of-slither
― soref, Monday, 28 September 2015 11:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah my stomach couldnt take the unruly life
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 September 2015 12:04 (eight years ago) link
Meade makes no secret of the fact that she doesn't like the man, but the section on the split with Mia/Soon-Yi relationship/child abuse allegations was pretty diligently 'balanced', or that's how I remember it anyway. If anything she seems to dislike Mia Farrow even more, which maybe explains it.
― soref, Monday, 28 September 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link
this is excellent IMO; a Q+A type oral-history-and-chronological-interview-for-each-film deal, again more than a decade old
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Woody-Allen-Conversation-Stig-Bjorkman/dp/0571223176
this one has the longest interview with him about Manhattan i'd ever read. in light of him never doing Director's Commentary or same, i think it'll remain so.
― piscesx, Monday, 28 September 2015 12:50 (eight years ago) link
looks very good! ordered it from the library
― niels, Monday, 28 September 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
yeah, that woody allen on woody allen is a treat for fans
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Monday, 28 September 2015 13:27 (eight years ago) link
2 new ones reviewed
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/28/woody-allen-retrospective-film-by-film-tom-shone-jason-solomons-review
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 04:25 (eight years ago) link
I guess because it's his 80th bday this year there will be a lot of media
― niels, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 06:04 (eight years ago) link
80 today
a career overview (i disagree with the label for his current period)
http://brightlightsfilm.com/a-much-more-thoughtful-and-is-it-possible-more-mature-director-woody-allen-at-eighty/#.Vl3BI3arR9M
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
the relative critical and commercial success of his post-2000 output is baffling
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
old buildings and prostitutes etc
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
Unless that's the title of his next movie, I ain't queueing.
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
Blue Jasmine (2013) features brilliant performances from an outstanding cast.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
this reads like a good essay for a college film class
i would've settled for 'features brilliant performances by Sally Hawkins and Andrew Dice Clay.'
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
possible finest standup moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SkZA0FKmAw
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 03:35 (eight years ago) link
Starrying Miley & May:
http://deadline.com/2016/01/woody-allen-miley-cyrus-elaine-may-amazon-series-1201690130/
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
*starring
ugh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link
barf
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
can't wait
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
i had no idea Elaine was still open to acting offers
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:27 (eight years ago) link
Casting Miley Cyrus almost reads like trolling. But my guess is it isn't intentional.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
i suspect he doesn't really know who she is, kinda like me
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
also i don't give a fuck, that teen queen who was in Altman's final film seemed to work out OK
yeah, putting a hypersexualized childlike star (and former child star) is definitely a total accident, I'm sure.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
she was just hanging around the studio lot
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
yeah Woody has a "studio lot."
forgot the lynch mob was so large
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
that was a joke, son
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link