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post #1 of 5
5/22/10 at 6:50am
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You know the best thing about needing to catch up with classic movies? Catching up with classic movies.

I absolutely loved this beautiful, funny and eventually touching film. An ode to the city at the same time as being an examination of sexual politics and the confusing morality of relationships. Allen and Keaton in the planetarium, the cut to the bridge, the sumptuous score, 'You have to have a little faith in people'- it's got magic liberally sprinkled throughout.

It's a really emotionally honest and mature movie (even though it is dealing with a number of immature characters) and really is the sort of film that they don't make anymore. A masterpiece.
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post #2 of 5
5/22/10 at 9:20am
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Older thread (I swear this thread didn't show up on a Google search):

http://www.chud.com/forum/showthread...ht=woody+allen
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post #3 of 5
5/24/10 at 4:12am
All this talk of maturity and beauty this movie attracts really tends to overpower the fact that it's really fucking funny. Not just with one-liners and clever turns of phrase, but with really great and cutting jokes that say something really honest about the characters. I just want to point this out for anyone who hasn't seen the movie and is afraid it's going to be boring cinematography porn. It's really fucking funny.

I know it took me a lot longer than I wanted to admit to warm up to it, though, because I was used to Woody Allen being the unlikely hero, not the whiny self-absorbed ass. I it can be hard to distinguish between the two at first glance, but just examine the character arcs of Alvy Singer and Isaac and tell me they're the same.
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post #4 of 5
5/24/10 at 12:22pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
I know it took me a lot longer than I wanted to admit to warm up to it, though, because I was used to Woody Allen being the unlikely hero, not the whiny self-absorbed ass. I it can be hard to distinguish between the two at first glance, but just examine the character arcs of Alvy Singer and Isaac and tell me they're the same.
I'm just getting into Woody (Annie Hall and Crimes and Misdemeanours next up), but from the little I have seen, he seems to be a tremendously nuanced and super-versatile writer- there is just so much character packed into his, well, characters. Also: Yeah, this fucker is hilarious,
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post #5 of 5
5/24/10 at 1:20pm
You're in for a treat. Be sure also to see: Husbands and Wives (faux-documentary look at waning relationships), Love and Death (I think his funniest movie), and Hannah and Her Sisters (similar to Husbands and Wives, but funnier).
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