woody allen

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

we're living in such exciting times, when things are constantly changing

woody allen in this is an apolitical postmodern novelist whose life's ambition is to be j.d. salinger despite having been born, evidently, around 1888

elaine may and miley prove timing will not save us

Peter Labuza
‏@labuzamovies

Many are comparing Allen's CRISIS IN SIX SCENES to Roth's American Pastoral but better is Kaufman/Hart's You Can't Take It With You.

Both are essentially one house domestic comedies about how political rhetoric gets exchanged on the margins from conviction to fashion.

yeah, cute, those had writing, tho

Vadim Rizov
‏@vrizov

CRISIS IN SIX SCENES: sure, this has value. Imagine Woody forced to make a 2.5 hour film, leading to weird new places.

He's not used to working that long, so he has to scramble for new ideas and things get interesting. Predictably, some of this is dull.

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I'd hear Frantz Fanon quoted in a Woody Allen movie.

but that's what woody allen movies do, quote

get wilder dreams imo

elaine made me lol at "who's... sherman mayo"

that's abt as politically sophisticated as we're getting

woody's char keeps talking about being 4F, i guess in ww1? unclear if the movie knows it'd be ww1. don't think that classification system was used in ww1 but while making your roth-esque historical satire why should you have to look up anything that's not on the back cover of the wretched of the earth or inside your tiny head

Woody's character could be a hard-living 60yo?

hope to watch this in next 2 weeks, btwn baseball

(i don't expect much besides Elaine)

Watched one episode and holy shit that was terrible.

makes the wonder years look like demons

This review otm https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/08/12/cafe-a12.html

Watched Interiors for the first time in a dog's age (35mm); i've never hated it, and it's really funnier than ppl give it credit for (eg, Maureen Stapleton's introductory scenes; her son manages an art gallery in a Vegas casino).

There's a one-shot closeup scene of Geraldine Page watching TV, and we hear televangelist hokum. (Marybeth Hurt also says at one point that Mom's depression is being eased by "her Jesus Christ bullshit.") Interesting choice.

Diane Keaton is better than I remembered given her banal dialogue, but Richard Jordan and Sam Waterston are defeated by their hectoring, one-note mate characters.

that might be the only "peak period" film of his I've never watched. I kinda hate Waterston

Sailing perilously close to R. Kelly in SNA.

Woody could have really done something with the "Trapped In A Closet" scenario back in the '70s.

Sam Waterston as a Maoist!

Keaton is more moving here than in MANHATTAN.

well she's much icier and unsympathetic as written in Manhattan.

Not sure SW is established as a Maoist, just someone who's making a documentary about Maoists.

Watched Cafe Society, thought Carell and Jeannie Berlin had some funny moments, and damn Kristen S is purty. Eisenberg as the Woody Simulacrum is just depressing at this point. Subplot with the sister, her Marxist husband and the iced neighbor was like a mashup of Radio Days and Crimes and Misdemeanors. The burnished glow Vittorio Storaro gave the sets and locations was pleasing, but damn what is the point with these treadmill scripts?

there is no point

He's filmmaking out of habit at this point

And probably for the last twenty or so years

I watched the first episode of Crisis in Six Scenes in can't remember something that made me want to crawl out of my skin so badly

still rather liked that, the first 2 at least

still felt kinda sorry for Paulie Walnuts showing up for 3 lines in CS