woody allen

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

The fascinating part is that his last five or six movies have, for the most part, made small to comfortable profits.

It seems like the fans he alienated in the '90s and for most of the '00s through Match Point have returned and stayed put.

he still does good biz overseas, relative to budget

"The Remarkable Laziness of Woody Allen"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/woody-allen-wonder-wheel/537876/

looking forward to reading but can I just say lol @ that cartoon

seems pretty plausible to me -- and really, for someone who's made it through a few of these movies over the last 20+ years, not much I hadn't already thought at some point. His movies now really do seem more like compulsions than works of art, with anything like "intent" or insights into life/people.

I mean, obsessive perfectionism isn't always necessary to produce great art. Schoenberg (and Pollock?) created some of his greatest works very rapidly with minimal revision. The incuriosity seems like the bigger problem. Happens to lots of old guys. I think the quality of his recent movies that I've seen is not that different from idk latter-day Eric Clapton albums or something. I liked To Rome With Love btw!

It's kind of a model of management: do the part you do, delegate the rest, and it comes down to who you hired.

idk latter-day Eric Clapton albums

(which I usually find pleasant enough but rarely spend much money on them or listen repeatedly)

Cafe Society is actually kinda good, though I think it has everything to do with Vittorio Storaro.

It looks nice; it's not good.

WA's late period encapsulated by dusting off his Mostel script for Larry David.

WA's late period encapsulated by dusting off his Mostel script for Larry David.

that movie was so unenjoyable

Yeah, I would say that's Allen's worst film - it looked so cheap and stagebound, and Larry David isn't any kind of actor (or, he doesn't get any support/direction from Allen).

It looks nice; it's not good.

Huh?

New one isn't a Comedy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFM0UqX9MJ8

teal & orange.xls

New one isn't a Comedy…

at least he's consistent

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jfc just stop it

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/10/woody-allen-elle-fanning-movie-adult-teenager-sex-scene-1201890099/

yeah but art

Weird

This is even worse than the premise for Manhattan

Still deeply troubled by Wonder Wheel, I encounter Myron Meisel's description of Edgar G. Ulmer's Babes in Bagdad: "Achieves an emotional honesty in a fraudulent context in a unique way that few would be advised to imitate."

— BANDZ STACKHAGE (@NickPinkerton) November 30, 2017

that's also a v good description of the CK movie, incidentally

That's accurate. I didn't believe a single line of Timberlake's, and Winslet reprises Cate Blanchett's soggy Blanche act from Blue Jasmine, but the older woman/younger man sexing is refreshing for a while.

JFC Woody Allen needs to meet his end already

Timberlake is ~6 years younger than Winslet xp

the movie makes a point of the five-year difference

Only in Hollywood...

especially since Timberlake, despite the makeup, has aged worse than Winslet.

his face looks like a surgical glove packed with ice

I be on my surg and ice shit, ice shit, ice

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Justin+Timberlake+2017+Vanity+Fair+Oscar+Party+QZ-bDkMjUxNl.jpg

he looks like a mr. potato head

AO Scott examines his historical WA conscience:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/movies/woody-allen.html

WTF?

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lol

that must've been soon after What's Up, Tiger Lily?

Could be that Allen gave his permission because he wanted to emulate Bob Hope, who had a DC comic book that lasted for over 100 issues.

comic-book woody looks more dapper and handsome, even, than i remember even the 60s-era woody ever being