Will we see Hollyweird start cranking out unscripted documentary films as well?

profitsbeard on December 9, 2007 at 11:35 PM

And the Oscar goes to…

He’s also a genuinely nice man. He’ll take time out of his day to talk to a fan.

It was BRITISH audience, and they were laughing because he was not sticking out his pinky finger…

“Bad show, Ole chap”….

But Annie Hall? Pfffft. How many times does one have to hear the line “Well, la-de-da” in one movie?

flipflop on December 10, 2007 at 6:02 AM

Actually I thought that was the only good line in that movie. If you saw the movie you can still hear it with that silly grin: “La dee da, la dee da, la la.”

Well, that line and, “We never have sex – just three times a week” from him, and “He wants it ALL the time, he’s an animal – like, three times a week!” from her.

This was asinine but one of his early movies Sleeper is hilarious.

Speakup on December 10, 2007 at 1:53 AM

Agreed. “Love and Death” was a good movie too.

For god’s sake, this country is crawling with so-called “writers.” Hundreds of thousands of them. What it lacks is good readers. Nowadays, it’s a rarer skill, and a harder task.

And the same comment goes for the hundreds of thousands of “artists” — the sheer number of which so often prevents the good ones from being winnowed from the chaff of all the others, and properly discovered and encouraged, and appreciated, and collected, in time to make a difference. How many connoisseurs and intelligent collectors or encourages of painting and drawing do you know? And how many people have you heard of, real-estate tycoons, hedge-fund operators, the lot, have you heard of spending vast sums of money on celebrated crap that they have been told by some cunning art dealer playing to their ignorance and sharing, perhaps, the same execrable taste or no-taste-at-all, that this or that “artist” — preferably “cutting-edge” and preferably doing something involving video or photographs or performances or anything at all or perhaps they merely read it in Time, or ArtForum — produces work is “really significant” and besides, “it’s a great investment.”

But Annie Hall? Pfffft. How many times does one have to hear the line “Well, la-de-da” in one movie?

Excellent question! I’ve never seen any of his movies and have no desire to do so but he always has movie stars talking about what a great director/writer he is. Why?

He’s a really good director, some of his shots are the equal of the best directors in Hollywood (this is generally unappreciated outside the industry because he makes comedies). He does brilliant parodies of Berman’s cinematic techniques. His writing is funny and original. He mastered the telling of jokes from years as a stand-up comedian.

If you’re ever curious I’d recommend the following films: Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters and

Crimes and Misdemeanours

. The Purpose Rose of Cairo is supposed to be quite
good too but I haven’t seen it yet.

No script needed really, just sound effects.

I think you’ll really like it.

it’s ironic, really – they’re striking for a piece of the online pie, but they’re giving away content on YouTube.

whatever. long as there’s lolcats, who needs cable?

Excellent question! I’ve never seen any of his movies and have no desire to do so but he always has movie stars talking about what a great director/writer he is. Why?

terryannonline on December 9, 2007 at 11:10 PM

I haven’t seen a Woody Allen movie in years, even before the Sun Yi stuff. So I can’t comment now, but his early movies up to Manhattan we’re very good and very funny. When he started to get “serious,” that’s when he went downhill. Maybe you had to live through the 70s to appreciate his movies from then.

One other thing I’ll give him credit for: One year when he was up for a bunch of Oscars he stayed in New York because his band had a gig that night, and he decided he’d rather do that then fly to Hollywood to hang with the phonies/lib crowd.

FADE IN-

INT. MANHATTAN APARTMENT. DAY.

An INVISIBLE ALIEN moves the arm and hand of the waxy corpse of WOODY ALLEN, one-time funny man (“Bananas”) and wrecker of his relationship with “Rosemary’s Baby” star Mia Farrow by having an affair with her young adopted daughter Suun Yi.

The alien also activates a vintage laugh track machine, which Allen had planned to sell on ebay that evening, but, after having drunk a tea cup full of hemlock (in a mock-Socratic homage gesture) was now in no position to unload.

Fade Out

___________________________________________________________

This is all considered high tragedy in the Andromeda galaxy.

A suicidal child molester being used as a grotesque hand puppet by a transparent being could actually win a “Fglxxybie” (the extraterrestrial equivalent of the Oscar).

Rhymed dialog was transmitted subconsciously through semiotic memes implanted in the gray scale patterns.

In essence it boiled down to:

“Never screw with a lady
What has had Satan’s baby.”