woody allen

god i hate WNP

couldn't make it through anything else tbh

i mean whatever works

an equally unmemorable title

Woody hates WNP too! The question is why he doesn't hate these scripts he's shooting.

well he's never been a good judge of his own work but at this point I assume he just continues out of habit

Doesn't he periodically call a lot of his disasters his favourite film to date when making them?

I dunno, but he said he wanted to scrap Manhattan when he finished it.

I want a copy of this:

http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51T-PMA6C-L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

I think a lot of those are available online somewhere.

Doesn't he periodically call a lot of his disasters his favourite film to date when making them?

To his credit, he usually hates his films.

Move over Scarlett Johansson — Woody Allen has a new muse: France’s first lady, the model-turned-singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

The brunette beauty will appear in Woody’s next film in a role that is, as yet, undefined, reports Bloomberg.

“He offered me a role in his next movie,” Carla told a French TV show yesterday.

“I don’t know for what character, but I said yes. I’m not an actress at all,” says the wife of France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy. “Maybe I will be terrible. But, in my life, I cannot let such a chance go.”

Previously, Woody, 73, has waxed lyrical about 25-year-old Scarlett — who has starred in three of the director’s movies, Match Point, Scoop and Vicky Cristina Barcelona — saying, “She’s very charming, very bright, very amusing.

“She livens the set up. The minute she walks on the set, the amperage goes up 200 points… Whenever there’s a part she could play, she would probably always be my first choice.”

this fuckin guy

Thorough summary of Woody's first 20 years in showbiz, including the magazine ads he did:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/02/the-early-woody-allen-.html

Links to some clips from "Hot Dog", a kids' show from '71 which is the first time I remember seeing him on TV. Woody & Jo Ann Worley on how money is made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtALhw0Ksc

Q. How do you feel about the aging process?

A. Well, I’m against it.

[....]

Q. Were you prepared for the firestorm of media coverage you set off by casting Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in your next movie, “Midnight in Paris”?

A. I was very surprised at the level of journalism that occurred in relation to her.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/movies/15woody.html?src=me&ref=general

Love that first answer. The whole interview is pretty entertaining.

Ime, Woody has two well-developed schticks: Funny Woody with his gulping delivery of every line and Artsy Woody who stays behind the camera and creates little drawing room dramas. I can't say I'm much taken with either schtick. I can take them or leave them. Mostly leave them.

funny Woody was frequently great and still has (hot) flashes of brilliance

I can't remember the last movie he did that was genuinely funny tbh. nothing this decade.

Curse of the Jade Scorpion maybe

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/6595/050708095500.jpg

whaaaaaaaaat

funny Woody was frequently great and still has (hot) flashes of brilliance

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is true. In the occasional interview and whatnot, he has proven that he still is very funny, somehow he lost the ability to translate this to film?

whatever works is pretty funny. criticisms of it sorta lay in its lack of depth iirc. i know it's a seventies script etc etc etc but it's all his.

my criticism of it was that I didn't laugh. in fact, I fell asleep about halfway through iirc

it was one of those things that looked great on paper and then in execution was just argggh why

I have skipped a whole bunch of '00s Woody, incl Larry David and some of the ScarJos

the new one is not bad, pretty black-hearted as usual

are there joeks

not a lot.

his "cynicism" is so facile though

Last one I love is Sweet & Lowdown

Alfred, I believe he calls it "realism"

which in his rendering is really just sentimentality.

meh, sometimes.

his "cynicism" is so facile though

otmfm. His cynicism used to resonate, or at least raise more questions than it squelched. He was facile (this is another great word with opposite meanings) with romantic futility. Now at best it's Bergman without the courage of its own premise, and at worst it tries to be funny and painfully fails.

Poor bastard. At some point everyone's best work is behind them, and you never know when that's going to be.

at this point life is behind him.

that's not fair -- life as he saw it was always behind him. He used to better at it, though.

"If I was speaking to the people who are protesting legitimately, I would try to convince them, if I could, that building the mosque takes a step toward eliminating this kind of thing from happening again. Preventing the mosque from being built is not a step in the right direction."

DiGiacomo asked Allen asked Allen if he has a bucket list of things he'd like to do before he dies. "Yes, and one of them is [to] live longer," the director responded. "That's at the head of the list."

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/09/earned_opinion.php

75th today for the altecocker

still only 75 wow, that means another 50 films before going out Manoel de Oliveira style.

really weird to me that he's "only" 75, he seems like he's in his 90s... I mean wasnt he writing for tv in the 50s? jesus...

i thought vicky christina barcelona was great - mainly because of penelope cruz (who i definitely didn't expect to like that much)

I mean wasnt he writing for tv in the 50s?

When he was about 19.

i thought vicky christina barcelona was great - mainly because of penelope cruz (who i definitely didn't expect to like that much)

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, December 1, 2010 8:20 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

]and rebecca hall yall

here's two woody allen bday links:

great 1985-circa interview with michiko kakutani:

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1550/the-art-of-humor-no-1-woody-allen

amazing overview of his pre-movie career (tv writing, standup etc):

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/02/the-early-woody-allen-.html

<3 HB

I say this with no false modesty—that I feel I have done no really significant work, whatsoever, in any medium. I feel that unequivocally. I feel that what I have done so far in my life is sort of the ballast that is waiting to be uplifted by two or three really fine works that may hopefully come. We’ve been sitting and talking about Faulkner, say, and Updike and Bergman—I mean, I obviously can’t talk about myself in the same way at all. I feel that what I’ve done so far is the . . . the bed of lettuce the hamburger must rest on. I feel that if I could do, in the rest of my life, two or three really fine works—perhaps make a terrific film or write a fine play or something—then everything prior to that point would be interesting as developmental works. I feel that’s the status of my works—they’re a setting waiting for a jewel. But there’s no jewel there at the moment.

I dunno if I buy that as "sincere" but I love the desire to keep going.

Sorry for the huge embed, but that Mozambique stamp is too good

the eyes on the Togolese one...

i almost want to torrent his new film because i suspect it would be enjoyable in a "so bad its good" manner but i probably won't bother.

A Rainy Day in New York? It's on Prime. There's actually another one, filmed afterwards, called Rifkin's Festival. It has only been released in Spain.

Not even released in Togo, that's how bad it is.

yes, rifkin's festival was the one. i wouldn't even want to watch on prime as i wouldn't like to boost the analytics.

The film-after-next will be his 50th! Not including What's Up Tiger Lily?, which barely counts. Wonder what delights he has in store for us?

i watched a few minutes of Rainy Day. It's bad. Rifkin's is supposed to be okay.

I sadly know enough movie bros who believe in some shade of Woody Allen Innocent and even they couldn't find a way to defend Rainy Dar or Rifkin's.

https://www.thewrap.com/woody-allen-rifkins-festival-box-office/

Woody Allen has posted the lowest box office opening weekend of his career with his 49th film, “Rifkin’s Festival,” grossing just $24,000 on Friday and Saturday from 26 theaters, according to box office sources.

Most of the theaters screening the film are owned by Landmark Theaters, whose flagship Los Angeles location posted the highest single theater total for the film with $2,300. Other theaters outside of Landmark’s circuit screening the film include the Quad Theatre in New York City, where the film grossed $1,600 over two days.

wondered if this was an RIP. almost is.

Also, in a thankless move but as someone who has often spoken his view of truth to power, Wallace Shawn writes about why he took the role in Rifkin's Festival.

woody allen and twiggy. i feel vindicated in never liking this fraud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2VCbxVVDQk

The Twigster destroyed him.

The film-after-next will be his 50th! Not including What's Up Tiger Lily?, which barely counts. Wonder what delights he has in store for us?

A French-language 'Sinister Thriller'...and then retirement from film to write books and short pieces.

https://variety.com/2022/film/global/woody-allen-retirement-1235375939/

I thought this was going to be about Rosie O-Donnell on Howard Stern:

In the case of Allen, the film was 1999's Sweet and Lowdown, with Sean Penn and Uma Thurman. "I had done an HBO special where I said everything about him," O'Donnell told Stern. (Spoiler: She did not have good things to say about Allen.) "And then I got on my show. So it's the first year of my show and I get a call and they said, 'He wants you to be in (Sweet and Lowdown). I said, 'Please send him my HBO special.' And the woman said, 'Oh he's already seen it.' And I said, 'Send it anyway with two words: F--- and no.' And I sent it to him."

According to O'Donnell, Allen's team persisted in asking after her to play a role despite her comments. "They called back and said, 'He really wants you to do it. He'd like to talk to you about it,'" she recalled. "I said, 'I'm not doing it. I'm not working for him or with him and being associated with him.'"

Allen also was reportedly surprised when Mia Farrow didn't want to star in Manhattan Murder Mystery after the allegations emerged.

Cosmic levels of self-absorption, zero self-awareness.

Guess we'll never get to see some of these.

Woody's next 50: pic.twitter.com/ZGI6ZW2fgY

— Tim Heidecker (@timheidecker) June 21, 2016

He’s retiring to spend more time marrying his family. https://t.co/CLW0SOsYRe

— Ariel Dumas (@ArielDumas) September 18, 2022

Allen's people now saying the original source misquoted him, and that he has no plans to retire from filmmaking.