Films Seen: Woody Allen
Submitted by dayfornight on Sat, 01/08/2005 - 13:22
Tags:
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Husbands and Wives
- Sleeper
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Manhattan
- Annie Hall
- Take the Money and Run
- Zelig
- The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Love and Death
- Everyone Says I Love You
- Bullets Over Broadway
- Interiors
- Broadway Danny Rose
- Radio Days
- Stardust Memories
- Bananas
- A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
- September
- Alice
- Another Woman
- Manhattan Murder Mystery
- Sweet and Lowdown
- Shadows and Fog
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
- The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
- Mighty Aphrodite
- Hollywood Ending
- Deconstructing Harry
- Small Time Crooks
- Celebrity
- Anything Else
Author Comments:
Missing: What's Up, Tiger Lily (because it's not a proper Allen film) and Melinda and Melinda (because it's yet to be released).
So, like, pretty much of all them, then. :-)
Which is the one with Gena Rowlands? How is it? I've been meaning to see that one.
That would be "Another Woman", which is another one of Allen's forays into Bergman territory. It's not bad, but it's wholly unoriginal, much like "Interiors." I'd give it a 68 as the kids say.
Hey, that counts as a recommendation to me. I liked Interiors, believe it or not.
Not a "Harry" fan, eh?
Not really. If I remember correctly, I thought it was unnecessarily vulgar, with a typically showboaty lead performance by Robin Williams. It was better than the crap with Jason Biggs that he foisted on America last year, though.
See, you DO need to see it again. The vulgarity, I feel, was completely necessary for Harry's character. Amd Williams only has a small uncredited role in a depiction of one of Harry's stories. I think it's a brilliant self-examination/evisceration by an artist in turmoil.
Guess my memory of Harry is more than a bit hazy. Perhaps if shows up on cable soon I will take another look. Husbands and Wives is currently on and it's still freakin' brilliant.
Count me in as a fan of Deconstructing Harry as well. Loved the Robin Williams story, too; and good SFX, which is not something one usually says of an Allen movie.