woody allen

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?

o_O sometimes i think maybe diane keaton is her character in manhattan who describes wallace shawn as a sex god or whatever.

xxp lol

Diane Keaton's new memoir, Then Again, digs into the origin of her romance with Woody Allen lo those many years ago. "He had a great body," she writes. "I was in love with him before I knew him. He was Woody Allen ... He was so hip, with his thick glasses and cool suits." The two became friends during the 1968 production of Play It Again, Sam, when "Woody got used to me," Keaton says. "He couldn't help himself; he loved neurotic girls." Put that on a shirt, Urban Outfitters. She also non-admits admits that Annie Hall is about their romance.

that last sentence is not news

He was so hip, with his thick glasses

proto-ilxor looking dude

I'm sure this would have been posted on one of the many other Woody Allen threads, but just in case:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/woody-allen/about-the-documentary-film/1865/

Will definitely watch.

well the vid up there is from the show.

I saw Tony Roberts about 5 years ago in midtown, fittingly, on his phone.

so he's turning Bullets over Broadway into a stage musical.

i want to disapprove but who am i kidding i will save my pennies for that

Rosenbaum in 1990:

“Why are the French so crazy about Jerry Lewis?” is a recurring question posed by film buffs in the United States, but, sad to say, it is almost invariably asked rhetorically. When Dick Cavett tried it out several years ago on Jean-Luc Godard, one of Lewis’s biggest defenders, it quickly became apparent that Cavett had no interest in heating an answer, and he immediately changed the subject as soon as Godard began to provide one. Nevertheless it’s a question worth posing seriously, along with a few related ones — even at the risk of courting disbelief and giving offense.

Why are American intellectuals so contemptuous of Jerry Lewis and so crazy about Woody Allen? Apart from such obvious differences as the fact that Allen cites Kierkegaard and Lewis doesn’t, what is it that gives Allen such an exalted cultural status in this country, and Lewis virtually no cultural status at all? (Charlie Chaplin cited Schopenhauer in MONSIEUR VERDOUX, but surely that isn’t the reason why we continue to honor him.) If we agree that there’s more to intellectual legitimacy than name-dropping, what is it in Allen’s work as a comic Jewish writer-director-performer that earns him that legitimacy — a legitimacy that is denied to, among others, Elaine May and both Mel and Albert Brooks?

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=21337%EF%BB%BF

For me it might have something to do with the fact that I find Jerry Lewis movies unwatchable.

CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS offers another case in point. A film that professes to address the rampant amorality and self-interest of the 1980s gives us an ophthalmologist (Martin Landau) who arranges to murder his mistress and gets away with it and a socially concerned documentary filmmaker (Allen) who isn’t rewarded for his good intentions. But both characters seem equally motivated by self-interest, and we are asked to care much more about Allen’s character as a fall guy than about the murdered mistress (Anjelica Huston). Landau’s masochism about his initial feelings of guilt are matched by Allen’s masochism about being a loser. There is a lack of ironic distance on this aspect of both characters, and if the film is genuinely attacking self-interest, it is seriously handicapped by being unable to see beyond it.

I don't agree with this at all - I thought the point of the parallel stories was partly to question the goodness of the "loveable loser" -- Allen's character is shown to be petty and mean, and what separates him from his double seems come more from his lack of power than any supposed good intentions.

"of the 1980s"

piece was written at the conclusion of the '80s dawg

and that is the decade when the national "narrative" endorsed such a philosophy very shamelessly.

Yet Allen is often treated in the press as if he were even more important than (Bergman and Fellini).

haha was this really the case or is this just another vaguely dumb thing in this article? also is this guy like a respected critic and stuff, i'm very confused

At peak Woody respectability, say '86-92, it's not much of an overstatement.

A film that professes to address the rampant amorality and self-interest of the 1980s gives us an ophthalmologist (Martin Landau) who arranges to murder his mistress and gets away with it and a socially concerned documentary filmmaker (Allen) who isn’t rewarded for his good intentions. But both characters seem equally motivated by self-interest, and we are asked to care much more about Allen’s character as a fall guy than about the murdered mistress (Anjelica Huston).

i think this really misreads the movie tbh. Always thought Allen's self-interest is pretty clear.

exactly

I mean that's the whole point of the screening room scene where he's made a doc comparing Alda's character to Mussolini, isn't it?

BTW the mistress is also quite selfish - she's ready to destroy a family out of possessiveness and jealousy.

mia farrow clearly makes the right decision in that movie

Yet Allen is often treated in the press as if he were even more important than (Bergman and Fellini).

haha was this really the case or is this just another vaguely dumb thing in this article? also is this guy like a respected critic and stuff, i'm very confused

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tbh throwing out bergman & fellini just as ~serious filmmakers & stylists~ is p weak & makes me want to rep for allen, who's very varied, inventive, structurally interesting, thoughtful, &c. i guess some of his stuff being comedy pigeonholes him outside of a certain canon but he's important.

A little something about a familiar house.

I wouldn't have thought they'd used some interiors for scenes.

Great that they did, though. Still have a fondness for that film.

saw a double feature of manhattan and the purple rose of cairo on 35mm last night; prob gonna die sometime this week. this is i think the first time i've seen the former (and i've seen it many many many times, thanks to a high school crush on mariel hemingway) with the brightness properly calibrated.

in purple rose i like when someone insisting on the necessity of getting jeff daniels back into the movie before they turn off the projector says "ya want an extra guy running around?!"

i heard louie ck got a part in his new movie? will probably go see it if so. how many times have i been shocked that woody allen's new movie is great? (ummm, first time was purple rose of cairo, then again on manhattan murder mystery, then a third time on deconstructing harry) all had long stretches of bombs between so i'm always hoping i'll hear the new one is surprisingly awesome.

don't hold your breath

I will see it cuz it was shot in my neighborhood tho

almost headed up to see that same double feature, dlh! just a few blocks from my apartment. now I really wish I had :( should probably check the runtimes for the rest of the week.

The problem is that Woody's weaknesses have gotten worse, and he's so impervious to change in his dotage that he seems incapable of pleasant surprises.

(There's a reason Chaplin made one reviled film in his 70s.)

Saw the Manhattan showing on Friday. Won't get a chance to see any of the others, I don't think, since I'm out of town til Friday.