woody allen

in owen wilson's defense no woody allen character written since he ran out of autobiography in 1991 is ever going to be buyable as a writer. still completely looking forward to seeing this though and almost went today.

i may have made up that year. whenever husbands & wives came out, after which he stopped putting details in his characters.

there are details in Deconstructing Harry! "First I want ya to tie me up, then beat me..."

(H&W was '92, DH '97)

Also: the Rachel McAdams half of the movie was spectacularly lame. I just have no patience anymore for Woody's hamhanded exposition (e.g. "Remember we have that private exhibit at the museum tonight. Paul is a Monet expert, you know").

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hah, yeah. i was cringing through most of that robotic characters-explaining-their-relationships-with-each-other dialogue (which begins the second the movie opens). hes just a spectacularly lazy writer now. and director.

anyway this was cute and not completely unwatchable so that makes it a cut above for the woodster these days

The Sidney Bechet was nice. I didn't know what the film was about going in but I figured it would have something like that.

xp to morbs: oh that's right! and it has the scene with mariel hemingway as the furious anti-woody-allen mom.

I think my favorite part of Midnight in Paris was the wife of douchebag professor who very hesitatingly...didn't really mispronounce french things, but was afraid she would. that woman was very very good at doing that, the two times she did it. so good I can't mimic it.

yeah the versailles gag was good

Midnight in Paris will be his biggest hit since 1986.

David Thomson on its badness:

Midnight in Paris is very far from the worst film Woody Allen has made in the last 300. He has a conventional prettifying tourist’s eye for the great city. He pursues his old wintry habit of collecting attractive girls and then abandoning them—cast cute but then never give them real scenes, let alone emotions. He has a promising misunderstanding over a pair of earrings, but then tidies it away as if it’s going to require too much work. And the 75-year-old continues to survey his own pictures like a 22-year-old who is superior, lazy, and chronically immature. So the game is played, but no one cares—least of all Allen.

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

Even though IT IS WRITTEN that Eisenberg will play ^^^ in the next one, here's to hoping it's really Ellen Page.

oh boy -- the next one is titled The Bop Decameron.

(bop as in bebop, I'm guessing)

this movie is great but how hard would you have laughed if the credits had kicked open with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs3xXlXSOKk
huge missed opportunity

Ah, goldmine! This is what I was looking for when I started the other thread. Thanks, guys.

we should keep midnight in paris discussion to the new thread, that way if someone wants to talk about midnight in paris it he future they dont have to find this

Woody's Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris thread

with the emperor out of the way, all that remains is to kill don francisco. that will destroy his highness' stupid dreams of a treaty with spain! then i'll sail to austria, and form an alliance with the crown. not the king. just the crown.

Standup Comic: http://www.ibras.dk/comedy/allen.htm

so, he wrote another one-act comedy, as did Elaine May and Ethan Coen, and the reviews are mixed:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/ethan-coen-elaine-may-and-woody-allens-relatively-speaking

Tempted to scrounge up the dough, as an actor acquaintance is in two of them. Also: Richard Libertini! Julie Kavner! Marlo Thomas! GUTTENBERG!

I saw some interview he gave about this in the NYT and as usual his answers contained more funny jokes than his last 2 dozen movies

which just made me sad

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/theater/elaine-may-interviews-ethan-coen-and-woody-allen.html

Well, the play is sposed to be pure farce (w/ echoes of SoonYiGate) so perhaps it's worthy.

That's not really an interview so much as straight-up shticklach.

that interview is terrible, so desperate and unfunny :(

idk I thought it was p good

s1ocki, phaps you just don't like Jewish humor!

elaine may is almost 80!

She would know: Going out with Woody Allen was like being in a Woody Allen movie, Diane Keaton writes in an upcoming memoir. The Academy Award-winning actress starred with Allen in such favorites as Sleeper and Love and Death and got an Oscar for Annie Hall, in which her baggy-panted WASP meshed unforgettably with Allen’s patented schlemiel. Allen and Keaton dated for a few years and remain close.

“I was his endearing oaf. I had him pegged as a cross between a ‘White Thing’ and the cockroach you couldn’t kill,” Keaton, 65, writes in Then Again, which comes out next month and is excerpted in the November issue of Vogue, arriving at newsstands Oct 25. “We shared a love of torturing each other with our failures. His insights into my character were dead-on and hilarious. This bond remains the core of our friendship and, for me, love.”

Keaton writes that she met Allen in 1968 when they worked together in Allen’s stage comedy Play It Again, Sam, roles they re-enacted for the 1972 film version. Allen is the divorced neurotic who channels the spirit of Humphrey Bogart to help with his love life. The actress falls for him in the script and soon did the same in real life.

“How could I not? I was in love with him before I knew him. He was Woody Allen. Our entire family used to gather around the TV set and watch him on Johnny Carson. He was so hip, with his thick glasses and cool suits,” she writes. “But it was his manner that got me, his way of gesturing, his hands, his coughing and looking down in a self-deprecating way while he told jokes like ‘I couldn’t get a date for New Year’s Eve so I went home and I jumped naked into a vat of Roosevelt dimes.’

“He was even better-looking in real life. He had a great body, and he was physically very graceful.”

What do you think she means by "White Thing"?

I was hoping someone would know...

yep, Elaine May is old; she became famous over 50 years ago.

Rob: Imagine my surprise when I got your call, Max.
Alvy Singer: Yeah. I had the feeling that I got you at a bad moment. You know, I heard high-pitched squealing.
Rob: Twins, Max! 16 years-old. Can you imagine the mathematical possibilities?

Isaac Davis: She's 17. I'm 42 and she's 17. I'm older than her father, can you believe that? I'm dating a girl, wherein, I can beat up her father.

Woody Allen has officially changed the name of his latest film from The Bop Decameron to Nero Fiddled. A rep for Allen confirmed to EW that he changed the title after realizing that the previous one was garnering befuddlement instead of excitment.

“I couldn’t believe how few people had heard of The Decameron even in Rome,” Allen said in a statement after shooting in Rome all summer. ”And the few that did assumed the movie was based on Boccaccio’s tales which it’s not.”

Allen will lead an impressive cast that also includes Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. But despite the impressive all-star roster, Allen noted that the title-change was necessary to create some buzz for the film. “Anyhow, I changed the title to Nero Fiddled, which is the first time I’ve changed a title since my last minute switch of Anhedonia to Annie Hall,” he said

Eisenberg is such an Allen clone surprised it took him this long to cast him

I won't be seeing this

more like delameron

brett ratner produced a 4 hr doc on woody to air in 2 parts on pbs 11/20 & 21

http://collider.com/brett-ratner-tower-heist-oscars-interview/123682/

maybe he just had a cold but he doesn't look/sound too good in this clip

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

ya his voice is pretty rough

aw

man diane keaton was the prettiest

She was very! Hey, Tony Roberts. :) He used to work in my parents's old restaurant when he was a kid and was a customer for years as was his Dad Ken who was a famous radio announcer from back in the day. They were both awesome. I think Ken died a couple years ago iirc. /Suzy. Sorry.

"parents's"

oops

He was also in this gem: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102690/

i always think of him as "max" because he and allen call each other "max" in annie hall.

I C U AS AN ATTRACTIVE WOMAN DIANE

i was going to say something unkind about how female insecurity must be how woody allen got all his chicks but tbh i think he is cute in annie hall.

It's been too long since I've seen AH. I think I'll watch it this weekend.

have you heard the quote from DK in her new memoir where she says he has "an incredible body" or something

huh

. . . of work?