Comments on: Scoop

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:02:19 +0000

I’m still figuring out if I want to go see LMS — my brother says it’s good, but we don’t always have the same tastes.

By: ~chris

~chris — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:20:07 +0000

I like Woody Allen the writer/director okay, but I just don’t like Woody Allen the actor. He plays the same character over and over. (Note: His absence one of the reasons for The Purple Rose of Cairo’s excellence.) Still, it was more enjoyable than the usual August just-get-me-out-of-my-non-air-conditioned-house movie.

Little Miss Sunshine is much better. Much.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:09:05 +0000

Thanks for the pointer. I tried to watch Oklahoma when it was on PBS, and I wound up giving up, because good as Hugh was, I just wasn’t that interested in the rest of the show.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 05:08:35 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a WA film. This one sounded kind of interesting though, so too bad it didn’t work.

Apropos of nothing comment, I actually thought about you when I saw a DVD of Oklahoma starring Hugh the other day. It was at a Sam Goody’s that was going out of business, and was like 60% off.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:55:32 +0000

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen all of Annie Hall, although I’m familiar with bits and pieces of it, of course. That’s still on the “to watch” pile. The Purple Rose of Cairo is my favorite of his films, which means it’s the only one I was interested in seeing and would willingly watch again. :) I do love the conceit of the film coming to life.

By: Dave Mahlin

Dave Mahlin — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:28:07 +0000

I was a fan of sorts of a particular era of Woody Allen films- the roughly 15-year period from “Annie Hall” through “Crimes And Misdemeanors” – when I was in college. I think I liked them because they flattered the intellectual pretensions of my 20-year-old self and painted a picture of a sophisticated urban lifestyle that seemd very attractive to me at the time. 15-20 years later, none of it has much resonance for me, although there are aspects of some of the films from that period that I still enjoy if only for the nostalgic feelings they churn up.

Of all of Allen’s films from that era, I can think of only 2 that would really stand up on an objective basis today and, not coincidentally, Allen does not appear on-screen in either of them: “Radio Days” and “The Purple Rose Of Cairo” remain two favorites of mine. Both are period pieces set in the 1930′s and I’d recommend checking them out if you haven’t seen them.

I haven’t been motivated to see a new Allen film since the early 90′s, around the time we all learned way morea about his personal life than we ever wanted to know.