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Klausi
Dec-05-2010, 12:48 GMT
Germany
 | Don`t know how Paul and Woody came together for "Annie Hall".
But I like this movie and also "Play it again Sam" very much.
Those guys have a lot in common, both like movies and music, although Woody probably is the better filmmaker and Paul Simon the better musician.
The movie was made after Paul`s first highpoint in his solo-career and also in a time, when he wasn`t satisfied with Columbia(Walter Yetnikoff). He then stated that he would like to write music "for something" instead of just putting out another album.
He also met Shelley Duval during the making and they became a couple for a while.
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mog
Dec-05-2010, 18:03 GMT
Unknown
 | I know that Simon was one of WA´s fan. I think he mentioned that in the Playboy interview (?).
Unfortunately, WA has turned into a mediocre filmmaker for the last 15 years or so (with a few exceptions).
It is good that Paul made it for what has become an enduring 7th art masterpiece re; Annie Hall.
I have a Old poster of AA with both names of Allen & Simon on it. Quite cool.
At the end of movie, S&G are even mentioned, a rare allusion of WA to the world of pop. |
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Bodo
Dec-05-2010, 21:19 GMT
Austria
 | Interesting, I have exactly the other opinion, the movies he made in the last years are much better, while I have no idea what movies he made in the 80s and 90s.
Since Matchball I watch all of his movies and find them very good. |
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Matthew
Dec-06-2010, 00:36 GMT
United Kingdom
 | I´m quite a big Woody Allen fan. In the 1980s and 90s he made some of his best films.
Hannah and Her Sisters was even more successful than Annie Hall and took over $40 million and won 2 Oscars despite only costing $6 million to make. Interestingly it was released in the same year as Paul Simon´s most successful album Graceland and the cast included his ex-wife, Carrie Fisher.
Another of my favourites from the 1980s is Crimes and Misdemeanors. Less well-known but well worth watching.
Despite the controversy over his breakup with Mia Farrow, the 1990s is one of his most prolific and strongest decades. He made at least one film a year in the 1990s and picked up a string of Oscar nominations. Mighty Aphrodite ranks amongst his best films but all the films made in the 1990s are worth a watch.
I thought the films he made in the first five years of the 2000s were a bit patchy although Match Point (rather than Matchball) and Vicky Christina Barcelona are definitely a return to form. |
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mog
Dec-06-2010, 03:46 GMT
Unknown
| Allen´s best is in the ´70s & ´80s. It is there that he really incarnated something unique that lot of men (people) could recognize in.
His decline began in the ´90s and it took long before we realized it. Now, he makes movies just to keep him busy. The inspiration has run-dry. He keeps recycling stuff, again and again, and has become a parody of himself.
He makes movie abroad because in US, Nobody wants to lend him money without reading the script.
If Bodo find the recent stuff funny, it is probably because he cannot realize that this is déjà -vu.
Still, WA is a giant, and as you know, he has his statute (being alive) in Italy and now in Russia. In 200 years, people will still talk about WA. |
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Bodo
Dec-06-2010, 18:16 GMT
Austria
| You might be right mog, I do not know any older movies by WA...they are never on TV, nor can I find them in my local video shop.
But I find the acutal WA movies most of the time much better than anything else which is played in our cinemas... all those Hollywood blockbusters are so forgetable since a few years. |
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Lara
Dec-06-2010, 18:38 GMT
Italy
 | I Love WA in all his decades. Probably I´m most in touch with the 70´ and 80´ because they are the movies of when I was a child and a teenager, and I saw them a lot of times. But I love the others as well. Some of them are more interesting than others but for me WA is one of the biggest director and writer.
And seeing PS meeting WA in Annie Hall always makes my day a good day.
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mog
Dec-07-2010, 01:43 GMT
Unknown
| If there is one you must see Bodo is ´Zelig´ from 1983.
Talk to me about masterpiece.
You will see and hear the difference between great Woody and little Woody ! |
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