woody allen

Manhattan or Annie Hall.

>>79493520
I'm not a Woody patrician but I really liked Midnight in Paris.

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>I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.[...] I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.
>He’s not arrogant; he’s shy.
> He is arrogant. Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. He acts shy, but he’s not. He’s scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest. To me, it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world—a man who presents himself at his worst to get laughs, in order to free himself from his hang-ups. Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic.

the one where he rapes little girls
oh wait, this isn't one of his films, it's what he does in real life

>>79493785
hehehe mule

>>79493520
There might be better ones, but I always enjoyed Love and Death. Loved the music too.

>>79493520
Play It Again, Sam

crimes and misdemeanors from a guy whos seen all of em. husbands and wives too and deconstructing harry

DUDE IM A NEUROTIC JEWISH NEW YORKER INTELLECTUAL LMAO

Manhattan is my favorite, not sure I could call it his best though.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

>>79493520
Match point for drama, scoop for comedy

Period.

>>79493520
Shadows And Fog

>>79493520
The one where he plays an ugly skinny unlikeable Jew who somehow slays all the pussy he wants in defiance of the real world

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Very funny movie.

>>79493520
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFrxBpg58s

Purple Rose of Cairo

A lot of people question Woody Allen's reputation of being a hack.
He is a hack, in the sense that he always does the same shit in all his flicks.
Annie Hall was the first Woody Allen movie I watched, and I loved it. It was creative, inovative in many ways, funny and different than the usual comedy.
Then I went on to watch Manhattan. It was the same thing, but in B&W: neurotic intelectual jewish struggling artist living in New York has romantic issues.
Not only the premisse was uninventive, the execution wasn't all that great, and the whole plot about a 42yo dating a 17yo like that was the most normal thing in the world was ridiculous, and made me want to puke (of course, pedos will try to defend this). But what made me cringe the most is the dialogue he tried to push, as natural conversation, but was nothing but a bunch of wannabe cult gibberish.
It made sense to me that the people who loved Woody Allen act like such uptight poseur cunts, because they wanted to be just like him, that pretentious faggot.
It baffled me to find out this was considered one of his masterpieces, as it seemed like a poor rehash. Then I went on to watch other of his stuff, just to find out it's the same shit over and over again.
Same romantic plots with his neurotic auteur alter ego, same self deprecating jokes, same ridiculously pretentious dialogue.
I'm with Orson Welles - who criticized Allen's "comical persona" - on this one. Welles was an intellectual, but for the sake of knowledge and reflexion, not to make himself look smart in silly flicks.
He didn't loosely refferenced Swedish directors or german philosophy, for no particular reason. Even more so, he made films with a good understanding of human nature, instead of just "wow, Freudian theories about upbringing are true and relationships are hard".
Plus, he was a complete artist, not only working as a writer, but also was a fantastic director and a competent actor.
Sorry about the rant, but I'm pretty pissed off.

>>79493753
>It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest
what do you mean ?

>>79493564
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>>79494693
>>79494737
good taste. Manhattan is his best. Hannah and Her Sisters deserves a mention though

>>79495108
>Sorry about the rant, but I'm pretty pissed off.
Why ?

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>>79493520
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>>79495293
wtf i hate woody allen now?

>>79493560
These or Midnight in Paris, which is pure kino

Match Point, Love and Death, Husbands and Wives are all great too

His sci-fi movie was pretty rad, forget what it's called

>>79495293
wait he's jewish? what!?

>>79495828
Sleepers

Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose. Deconstructing Harry. The editing of Annie Hall is good.

Celebrity

>and the whole plot about a 42yo dating a 17yo like that was the most normal thing in the world was ridiculous, and made me want to puke

I'm not sure that's the message of the movie senpai, the whole thing is shown as pretty fucking awkward. I doubt anyone hopes they stayed together at the end.

In fact, the whole tone of Manhattan (unlike Annie Hall) is "These people are shit". He repeats that theme again in Blue Jasmine where lots of the characters are irredeemable cunts.

But yeah, lots of Woody Allen movies go over the same ground. I don't think he's trying to make each movie 100% different from the last, he reuses the same actors all the time and even when he doesn't appear he often has someone basically playing him (Larry David, Kenneth Brannagh, Jason Biggs, etc).

>>79494693
Crimes and Misdemeanors is great, what did you think of Irrational Man?

>>79494737
If it's your favorite, why not call it his best? Unless you're waiting to have seen them all before making a statement.

>>79494693
Crimes and Misdemeanors is definitely his strongest, Stardust Memories is quite nice if a little cynical, Broadway Danny Rose is great.

I don't rate the film too highly but the scene in Mighty Aphrodite when Michael Rapaport describes his dream stands out as one of his funniest scenes.

Anything Else is perhaps literally the worst film i've ever seen.

I liked Midnight in Paris and Match Point. But I legit like Woody best as the borderline-slapstick comedian he was in his early movies. Bananas, Love and Death, The Sleeper; that kind of shit is my jam.

Curse of the jade scorpion is the funniest, then comes midsummer night dream. However, he's somewhat of a one trick pony in my opinion.

>>79493564
Same for me. It feels like peak comfy.

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>>79493520