HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986) one of the greatest films yet made, is framed by three Thanksgiving Day dinners. The film is about being thankful, and regretful. There's no love for WOODY ALLEN on this website, but he's made many funny movies, and even a few masterpieces. This one is the apex of his art.
hehe... Woody Allen and Funny Movies sounds like an oxymoron... :)
Depends on what you might mean.
Sorry, I think Woody Allen is overrated and this is before he married his daughter (or adopted daughter)
Like I said, no love. We could also talk about
ROMAN POLANSKI's fascinatingly lurid personal life.
Doesn't mean he didn't make good movies.
WOODY ALLEN's
INTERIORS disproves the idea that all his films are amusing, as in, "funny." If you suggest "funny" in some other way, I could see that also, and
INTERIORS is certainly "funny" but not very amusing, if watchable.
The point?
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS is a masterpiece, probably the best American film of the 1980s, and it's sad closed doors offer no view.
hehe... as I said I never like Woody Allen movies even before his "Strange/Personal Love Story" I'm pointing it out because I know people are turned off of Woody Allen because of his "Strange/Personal Love Story" and has effective their judgment on his films. I'd tried to like Woody Allen movies but each one usually fails... Although I did like some parts of "The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)" then the movie drags and becomes a chore to watch... Which is Woody's problem with filmmaking (he has the Joke but he keeps playing the punchline until the joke becomes old and unfunny)
ROMAN POLANSKI on the other hand is an intresting subject. He has established himself as a great filmmaker before the "child rape" and it plays with the movie viewers emotions because his crime was bad but his movies are so good. Also playing on the emotions is the death of his Wife and unborn child by the hands of the Manson Family. So we do feel sorry for him... but it doesnt justify the crime...
Maybe if Roman Polanski had Victor Salva's Laywer he wouldnt be hiding in Europe for 30+ years. Although, the Woody Allen thing is weard its not Illegal since the woman he married is not his actual daughter.
Are you kidding me?
You suggest
POLANSKI is more palatable despite his crime because he had established "himself as a great filmmaker before..."?
WOODY ALLEN had most of his greatest successes long before he got involved with
MIA FARROW and later
SOON-YI PREVIN in the 1980s (
ANNIE HALL was a smash hit and did win the Academy Award for best picture of 1977, for what that's worth...) The film I recommended,
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, stars
MIA FARROW and is touching, even heartbreaking, though also often funny.
Your point is made, your mind is closed to
WOODY ALLEN.
