I’m not a fan of the Woody Allen persona, but I’d endorse Sweet and Lowdown, Blue Jasmine, Bullets Over Broadway, and Vicky Christina Barcelona as good movies.
Yes, you should (preferably after Paddington!)
Although Paddington 2 is incredibly highly rated:
I am curious to know if anyone Wants to see Cocaine Bear.
Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker on Netflix. A fascinating story told badly. All of the interviewees save the two family members and the victim’s neighbors come off as extremely performative. Most of them work in the Reality TV business and others are cops and prosecutors with a practiced camera personae. It was like watching one of those VH1 shows where random celebrities comment on some decades old pop star scandal. Very tacky and not really enlightening about what kind of person the subject of the doc is.
I thought it was one of the most morally repugnant, exploitative documentaries I’ve seen. It was a last-gasp effort by everyone involved to squeeze one final dollar off this poor man’s soul.
Woody Allen movies are kind of like having a friend who is interesting to be with for a while but only a little while. I’d recommend:
“The Front”
“Midnight in Paris”
“Radio Days”
“Vicky Christina Barcelona”
“Purple Rose of Cairo”
Yeah, I fell for the trailer, gotta see what it’s about.
It is completely fictional. The only thing true is that the body of a bear was found and it was discovered the bear had an amazing amount of cocaine in his system.
Ransom Stoddard: You’re not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?
Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
This. I’ve often loved his work but when you’ve had enough of Allen, you’ve had enough of Allen.
Yep, RRR. Nice descriptions. It’s boldly, boastfully, cheesy and over-the-top. It’s a fairy-tale really. Like something out of folklore. That’s pretty much what it is. It’s like a live-action Disney movie, but one that’s absolutely faithful to the animated version.
I liked “Match Point” quite a bit.
Of his recent films, I really liked Midnight in Paris.
I was always a Zelig man, myself.
Let me speak up on behalf of Sweet and Lowdown.
Love and Death is the one I can watch over and over again.
I remember liking Crimes and Misdemeanors, but I can’t recall much of anything about the movie anymore.
How could I forget that one! For those who have never seen it, “Zelig” is a black & white newsreel-style mockumentary about a man who gained celebrity in the 1920s by having the uncanny ability to take on the appearance and characteristics of anyone around him. Anyone. It’s very convincingly done and quite funny if you buy into the joke.
One of my favorite “interview” answers (and I approximate): “Cole Porter was especially fascinated by him. He even wrote a song, ‘You’re the top, you’re Leonard Zelig.’ But then he couldn’t think of anything that rhymed with Zelig.”
We saw it at the theater just the other week. I love hearing about the entertainment industry (as opposed to salacious tell-alls; yuck!), so seeing what made a young Steven Spielberg - oops, I mean Sammy Fableman - fall in love with making movies was great. I was surprised at how well Seth Rogen did playing a straight character (as opposed to his usual comedy characters), but the absolute outstanding role was Judd Hirsch as Uncle Boris. I don’t know if it was because it was an incredibly written role, great direction, or an outstanding job of acting, but I’m sitting in the theater just absolutely gobsmacked. I want to re-watch the movie just to see the few scenes he’s in!