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Over the past year, I've really started to get into the films of Woody Allen. As a bonus, his films are really quite cheap to buy on DVD, most of them being priced between £5 and £10. I don't know if I have a favourite, but the last DVD of his I bought (before today) was Hannah & Her Sisters, which I really enjoyed. Today I bought Alice and Shadows & Fog. Looking forward to bangin' em on tonight. |
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I generally like watching them when they're on tv, but I've never bought any (does this make me a bad person?). I love that one where the actor is "out of focus." |
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Yep, I am a fan. But I had my great Allen's marathon 4 years ago, so no fresh thoughts from me. |
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That would be Zelig? Or no? |
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'relationships are like sharks-if they stop moving they die. and what i think we're looking at here is a dead shark' which film of his was that in? |
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I have no idea.. titles generally don't stick that well to my head (blu-tac helps). |
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Oh, um, Zelig I think. Woody's great. I thoroughly enjoyed Match Point. Lots of people didn't like it and they're wrong and bad. I bet they didn't like Eyes Wide Shut either. No one understands how to approach 70s auteur filmmakers anymore. I blame reality TV for destroying the faculty of imagination. |
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oh... QRDL beat me to it. Duh! |
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yeah. |
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i like his older ones. His newer ones are a bit boring. After you've seen two or three, you realise they're all run on the same formula. The worst ones are the ones where a different actor plays the role that woody would have played ten years earlier. Painful to watch. |
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I quite fancies Anything Else |
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i liked the one where a man murdered his wife, to be able to go off with his much younger mistress. |
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Manhattan and Annie Hall are great, as well as a host of his older comedies. |
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Yeah I like him... Manhattan is a fave. |
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of his newer films i really, really enjoyed Sweet and Lowdown. |
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Love his films and I agree the ones playing other actors playing wood y is painful. Especially when they try to do his mannerisms. Ouch. No one films NYC and its ambience like Woody, too. |
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Deconstructing Harry NOT ZELIG Woody Allen is some kind of hero and I seem to have seen 23 of his films, with only one or two I didn't like. |
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Is he that old kike with glasses that makes movies? |
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he's good......... some of his movies are a bit hit and miss but overall they are excellent...... whats the one set in the future? where he's dressed as a sperm? |
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The one set in the future is Sleeper and the one where he's dressed as a sperm is a segment of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex etc. |
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ahhh, cool......... |
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Woody Allen's movies are great. I own Annie Hall on dvd but my local video rental has many older and newer movies from the man. Infact, they have a whole Allen section and I rent and rerent quite regularly. Of his more recent films I enjoyed 'Melinda and Melinda' the most. I love how Will Ferrel's character acted like Woody Allen. He played it real well and made it funny. I prefer his older movies, especially the ones with comical elements, like the Sleeper, Everything you wanted to know about sex, Annie Hall etc.. . Ones like 'Interiors' and 'Hannah and her Sisters' are bit a heavy, but still very good. He's one of the most prolific directors I know of and never ceases to make movies. It's what he does and he does it well. |
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Ever since he stole my collection of sasquatch toenail clippings, Woody Allen has been dead in my eyes. Anyone else use google like a dictionary? I purposly search for an obviously mispelled sasquitch and it says 'did you mean sasquatch' |
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Sweet and Lowdown is my favourite, satiric and a bit melancholic while remaining very funny throughout (ok, that may well describe a lot of Woody Allen films — let's just say it's my favourite). Manhattan Murder Mystery, Mighty Aphrodite, Small Time Crooks and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion were all either very good, or at least entertaining from what i remember; Shadows and Fog was very different and i liked it very much too... i think the only one i've seen i had mixed feelings about was Match Point. i quite liked the story (especially the ending), but i didn't like the way it was treated. even though i can understand why it has been treated this way (it definitely makes sense with the story, but in the end i didn't enjoy it much). |
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I love Woody Allen for his work in film. You know, he has a jazz band? Plays clarinet. I've never heard any of it, and I doubt it's top class. He's not acclaimed for it, but it's jazz for fuck sake. Try pleasing dem critics! |
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Ta - based on that, I went out and bought Melinda & Melinda today :) |
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I like his films, when they don't get too annoying that is. I liked the one he made were he didn't cast himself....it had that chick from lost in translation in it....match point? A clever and entertaining story imo....but not anything groundbreaking.... |
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OK, I just got through watching Melinda & Melinda. Pretty damn good film; Will Ferrell was very good in it: I liked the playful references between the two versions of Melinda's story. And boy, that Laurel is gorgeous! |
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Excellent. Glad you ejoyed the film :) |
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I saw Scoop last week and it was fuckin' lame. Stay away. |
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Just got through watching Alice. The scene at the end, after she's left her husband and returned from Calcutta, and is in the small kitchen with her children really touched a nerve: very moving. |
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they're fun and i like them. |
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Melinda & Melinda is not a good film. Not a good Woody film. |
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I suggest Sleeper as one of his best. Basically anything He is in from the 70's and 80's |
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Oh also check out Wild Man Blues . Its a doc on his band while he tours Europe. He's funny in that too. |
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