woody allen

Anything Else is weird...Allen's "9/11" movie or something. His "mentor" character is this paranoid has-been who keeps impressing upon Biggs to protect himself, going so far as to taking him to a a tactical/military surplus store in Jersey to buy a gun and survival stuff.

Not that you can tell from the trailer (oh, and it's a extra short-sleeved t-shirt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIAuRc7TrrM

Tarantino is a big fan of that one

Already mentioned soz

He would love it.

The Woodman Unleashed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abeGU_SENAs

The ad campaign for Anything Else seriously downplayed Woody in favour of making the film look like a Biggs/Ricci romance, and it (sorta) worked: when I saw it, the theatre was packed with a teen/early-twentysomething crowd that whittled down to next-to-nothing during the film's first hour or so.

Gemma Jones is superb in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, one of the most moving performances in an Allen film (it's also the last film Vilmos Zsigmond shot for Allen)

omg I've never even heard of that film :-o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbvKsblWY4

Stay with it.

via Keyframe:

Woody Allen’s new comedy series for Amazon, Crisis in Six Scenes, starring himself, Elaine May and Miley Cyrus, will premiere on Amazon in September as part of a “month of comedy” that’ll include Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi and the third season of Transparent, reports Erik Adams at the AV Club. According to Amazon, Crisis is set “in the 1960s during turbulent times in the United States when a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNLUUfFLlQ0

'i thought I might have narcolepsy, my doctor said it was the book'

p funny imo

vinny delpino is working a lot huh

Curious about the Amazon series, especially after seeing Cafe Society over the weekend. First new Woody Allen I've seen since Whatever Works -- and it's a lot better than that. A lot of familiar themes for him, but the acting and dialogue (!) were both good/believable, and for the first time, maybe ever with him, I could actually see another movie with the same set of characters, following them along. Liked the ending too. Wuddya know!

I thought Irrational Man was much better than Cafe Society, but I liked the milieu of the former more. I could go the rest of my life without seeing another movie about the golden age of Hollywood. I love Joaquin Phoenix and he was great in Irrational Man, but I have a huge Jesse Eisenberg problem. He's just the worst.

yea irrational man is the only one of the last ~10 or whatever that I even considered watching

Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine were both great, too, obv widely acclaimed, but Irrational Man is my favorite of this decade. Cafe Society isn't bad, it's just OK, and really the worst thing about it is Eisenberg. If he doesn't bug you, don't worry...

"great" -- you can't meant that

haven't seen Blue Jasmine, but pals advised me that's the first recent one to hit after Cafe Society

I think its respectability makes it a menace. The bad ideas and received wisdom are lethal.

Midnight In Paris was unbearably corny.

the only part I liked about Midnight In Paris was the conceit that everyone romanticizes the past, even the people living in the romanticized past. the rest was p terrible.

Me too, that was a helpful realization when I saw it at 19. Still sticks with me for that point. Blue Jasmine had a despicable man character like Irrational Man, that's why they're my favorites.

*main character...

fortunately the rest of the movie was despicable

there's absolutely nothing original or deep in something like Blue Jasmine, it's a lazy old man's movie (that nevertheless has some pleasures, like Sally Hawkins and Dice Clay).

i am psyched for 6 episodes of Elaine May tho

Blue Jasmine was terrible anyone recommending it hates freedom

I was really not interested in the main character of Blue Jasmine and thought the performance was very much "a" "performance". but I liked the surrounding stuff okay.

I liked all the blue collar new jerseyans living in SF

Hasn't seen a shrink in years, buys $100 in lottery tickets each week.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/25/woody-allen-traumas-in-life-weaken-us-cafe-society-amazon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1waIIZ0pu-E

fuck woody allen

No thx

Why. The. Fuck. Would you release a trailer and not have it available in every country? Fuck you amazon, go to fucking hell. I'll never ever pay for anything you'll bankroll, I'll steal each and every show you send out.

That's what you're mad about huh

something else?

actually the last good thing of Allen's before Deconstructing Harry was his TV remake of Don't Drink the Water, so...

lotta slurring and loose teeth in that trailer

Lotta Slurring and Loose Teeth is my favorite Alex Chilton bootleg

Yeah, his voiceover on Café Society is very slurry too.

I really liked some things about "Cafe Society". This new series looks like a mummy convention viewed through an amber lens. Yikes.

First use of rock music by Woody?

Yep, unless you count the "look at these wacky 'punked' 'rocksters'" bit in Hannah.

Woody was interviewed in Musician a few years ago, and he talked about how he could never get into rock, and how people like Diane Keaton were constantly trying to foist shit like CSN records on him. He said that beyond his standbys of Armstrong and Bechet, he could get into Ornette and Cecil, or at least understood what they were doing, but for whatever reason he just couldn't get into what The Kids Today were digging.

Always wondered what happened to that band.

yeah their song in the film is great!

how people like Diane Keaton were constantly trying to foist shit like CSN records on him.

do you blame Woody

touch your children

Just watched the first episode of his Amazon show. Seemed a bit boring -- stiff, stage-like dialog (ie, not how people actually talk), wooden characters, set in the 60s for no apparent reason. Not even very funny. It was about to queue the next episode, but maybe I'll save it for later...

stiff, stage-like dialog (ie, not how people actually talk)

weird

yes naturalism is the only way to go. jeezus what year is it where you live D? is the Group Theatre putting up something new?

still, reviews hv been tepid

i was just joking about the late style, not rebuking dominique -- i like e.g. david lynch stilted, but late-woody stilted is a lot of stilt. often reminds me of the play at the end of annie hall.

can't rly imagine this being good, but looking forward to it.

Is there any way to watch this without forking out $ for amazon prime?

we're going downtown to see some folk music

there was a massacre of civilians in vietnam