Woody and Me:Keep Us from Evil
Everyone is great in this movie. Even Jennifer Tilly is great. Why put one of the most annoying actresses of all time in your movie and have her do nothing but play up all of her inherently annoying qualities?
Allen has a very good reason. This script for this movie is so great. It takes one idea, the notion of what it means to be an artist, and asks a question: In the end, the movie supplies an interesting answer. Not the two best crowds to alienate, perhaps. But the movie is fantastic. More beautiful black and white cinematography.
By this time Allen had become not just a funny guy making funny movies, but a smart, creative filmmaker. The whole thing is gorgeously put together, and is full of shots inspired by the European directors Allen loves so much. Even more unnerving are the scenes with his teenage niece. This movie also includes space aliens who arrive to tell Bates that they like his earlier, funny movies better, and numerous odd little fantastical moments.
A completely devastating look at marriages falling apart, with Allen and Mia Farrow playing one couple, and Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis playing the other. The latter couple happily announces their impending split, sending the former into a spiral of questions about their own faltering marriage.
Things work out unexpectedly for everyone. One of my favorite performances by anyone in anything. Also featured is Liam Neeson, who spends a surprising amount of time not kicking ass or fighting wolves.
The Woody Allen - Dylan Farrow case: media spin for the Farrow family?
But I know you will persevere, despite the vomiting. Love And Death is set in early 19 th century Russia, and the main targets of its jokes are the novels of Dostoevsky, the films of Ingmar Bergman, and existentialism. He plays a hapless Russian caught up in the war against Napoleon. Diane Keaton is great as his love interest, who regularly out-philosophizes him. Allen has said that this is his favorite among his films.
Set during the Depression, it tells the story of Mia Farrow, married to a son of a bitch, Danny Aiello, who escapes life by watching movies. During one screening, the archaeologist adventurer, played by Jeff Daniels , notices her in the audience, and walks off the screen to talk to her. Not to mention a certain amount of existential grief for the actors left on screen mid-movie. A very funny and very sad romance.
The perfect example of how to make a sweet romantic comedy without resorting to the cheap tugging of your heartstrings. After all, the romance at its core is between Mia and movies themselves. There is simply no way it should. And so he considers having her killed. The other story features Allen as a documentary director roped into doing a piece on a wealthy, schlocky filmmaker played brilliantly by Alan Alda, of all people. Then I saw this movie. Somehow these two halves fit together into one coherent whole.
- Stupid Ancient History (Stupid History)?
- Navigation menu.
- it's evil. don't touch it.;
- Bisschen Liebe zum Mittagstisch (German Edition);
- Das Puzzle des Lebens - Band 1: Auf der Suche nach meinem Ich (German Edition)?
- The Story of the Olympic Torch!
This movie manages to be real and evil and life-affirming all at the same time. How is this possible? Go watch it and tell me. Allen also went crazy in here with filmmaking tricks. Normally in a movie if you have, say, one flashback, you have to have at least one more, preferably three, because, as you may be aware, three is a magic number.
Having one feels wrong. In Annie Hall , Allen uses every trick he can come up with, and uses each only once. Why should you watch this immediately? Because trust me, you need the eggs. Keep watching it until you understand, you damn punks! After Annie Hall came Interiors , where Allen tried with all his might to make a movie on the model of his hero, Ingmar Bergman, that is, a movie about a number of couples having big problems in an isolated location where nobody tells a single joke.
Somehow Bergman can pull this off. What follows is a movie about relationships, like Annie Hall but without all the gimmicks. Diane Keaton once again kills. Meryl Streep shows up. Watch these ten movies and if you still hate Woody Allen, fine. I think you will 1 fall in love with these movies, and 2 want to beat him over the head with a live badger if he keeps turning out crap. And if you still need something to watch, take a gander at the finest Clint Eastwood movies in existence.
Because what two actors go better together than Clint and Woody? Speaking of which, holy god, Woody needs to write his next movie for Clint! They could play estranged brothers. I just saved both of their careers! Thank you and goodnight. I thought Midnight in Paris was light, easy entertainment. Not bad, but not great. Match Point was very good. Blue Jasmine is better.
I always thought that was his funniest. I could quibble about smaller details. Too many classic, brilliant moments.
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The earliest version of a joke with "masturbation" and "better class of people" I find on google books is in a book about Roy Cohn , see the successive snippets here and here. It's possible Cohn was just repeating an old joke though, since it also appears in the book A Treasury of Humor search google books for "you don't get anybody pregnant you don't catch any diseases and you meet a better class of people", it's the only result that comes up.
Perhaps someone got this confused with Woody Allen's quote from Annie Hall, "Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love. Earliest version I found was in the Reader's Digest, Volume 91 , according to the snippets here and here the version they give is "I took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and I was able to go through War and Peace in 20 minutes. I want my food dead — not sick, not wounded — dead.
From his play Don't Drink the Water , p. The full version is "I will not eat oysters. They're alive when you eat them. I want my food dead—not sick, not wounded—dead. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. The director responds to rumors of turmoil" by Jack Kroll. The accessible snippet says 'Miramax Films is already working on a new marketing strategy, but for his part, Allen has never seen a need to pander for box office.
If my film makes one more person feel miserable, I'll feel I've done my job. The good ones slept better From his book Side Effects , p.
Woody and Me:Keep Us from Evil
The full quote is "It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, Cloquet thought, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. A bunch of sources say it's from his movie Husbands and Wives. Can't find any evidence that he said "you can't leave without dying" but on p. Interviews in "An Interview With Woody" by Frank Rich, Time , 30 April he does say "There's a speech I had to get out of Manhattan and plan to get into the next film, where my character says that the metaphor for life is a concentration camp. I do believe that. The real question in life is how one copes in that crisis.
I just hope I'm never tested, because I'm very pessimistic about how I would respond.
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I worry that I tend to moralize, as opposed to being moral. You're stuck here and there's no way out, and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors. You're stuck here and there's no way out. You can only rage impotently against your persecutors" appears in Planks of Reason , p.
The snippet there gives the quote as "Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. Allen commented on some favorite subjects, including love and death. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. Appears in Woody Allen: Clown Prince of American Humor , p. Not clear if the author heard it directly from Allen or not.
Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a Quaker. Only 4 hits on google books for "mugged by a quaker" and "woody allen" neither of which give an original source, but several sources say the movie Sleeper featured the line "I'm not the heroic type, really. I was beaten up by quakers. More Humor Writing from the New Yorker , p. The actual quote is "It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year.
This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. Only if it's done right. According to Blind Men and Elephants , p. The Government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under five-seven, it is impossible to get your Congressman on the phone. The two biggest myths about me are that I'm an intellectual, because I wear these glasses, and that I'm an artist because my films lose money.
Those two myths have been prevalent for many years. Seems to be a misquote of a comment that appeared in some issue of Newsweek: Volume from , the snippet shows the actual quote is: They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money.
No quote like this can be found on google books searching for "woody allen", "more to life" and "clarinet".