Anyone Here Like Any Woody Allen Films?

[Norris For Prez!]

Okay, I know Bombastico will probably be the only one to respond to this, but might as well give it a shot...

Earlier this year, I decided to watch some films from Woody Allen. I didn't watch all of them, and, in fact, I skipped nearly all of his newer releases. Still, his work is brilliant, often amazing.

I'd like to recommend BANANAS and ANNIE HALL. ANNIE HALL is one of my top all time favorite movies, a film that is so funny and yet so true. I doubt that any modern Hollywood romance (maybe with the exception of PUNCH DRUNK LOVE) has had the balls to look at relationships so honestly and yet with so much humor. And the way Allen wrote and edited the film is priceless. "Those who can't do teach...and those who can't teach, teach gym."

As for BANANAS, I rented it recently and I haven't laughed at a film so hard in years. It's consistently funny all the way through, as Allen introduces new, hysterical situations and carries them to their fullest. I don't know if it was made before or after BLAZING SADDLES (I think it was made before), but Allen also utilized the great "non-diogenic" sound joke with a violinist in his closet. Good Stewff.

I liked many of his other movies, particularly MANHATTAN and EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK. He emphasized more heart and character over humor in his later films, but they were still very nicely done. I always liked how he was able to truly react to life in cinematic form. Personal matters aside (the Soon-Yi incident), he's a true artist.

[El Bombastico]

It is a bit late/early here for me to make any reasonable points here, but I am a Woody Allen fan.

Annie Hall is an obvious favourite of mine. I find it amazing that it was written as a murder mystery with a romantic subplot but was changed to be a romantic comedy in the editing room. I would love to see it how it was originally filmed, just out of curiosity. Only a master of film could totally change something in the editing room and make it one of the greatest films ever.

Bananas is hilarious. Just hilarious.

Manhattan is a love story about a city and I haven't seen it nearly enough.

Zelig is something very original and experimental, but it works.

He made many other great films over the years, but my favourite of his recent efforts is Everyone Says I Love You, which I find wonderful in many ways. It was also the first film Edward Norton ever featured in (although it was his third to actually be released) and he is by far my favourite actor of this current generation.

[Norris For Prez!]

For a couple of reasons...

1. An artist deserves to have credit where credit is due via putting special emphasis on their work. Some underline, some italicize, I capitalize.

2. I'm too lazy to italicize or underline.

3. So people skimming might pick them up and draw their attention to the titles.

[Diet Choke: Soda of Failures]

Citizen said:

For a couple of reasons...

1. An artist deserves to have credit where credit is due via putting special emphasis on their work. Some underline, some italicize, I capitalize.

2. I'm too lazy to italicize or underline.

3. So people skimming might pick them up and draw their attention to the titles.

That's a few reasons, not a couple.

[Fake Diamond Stewdd]

Curse of the Jade Scorpion and 2 others I didn't catch the name for (one has Michael Cain and Debra Winger and the other he is a director who is temporarily blind).

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Norris said:

[...]but Allen also utilized the great "non-diogenic" sound joke with a violinist in his closet.

That's "non-diegetic". And, if the violinist was in his closet, then it'd be diegetic.

I'm not a huge fan of Allen, but I've enjoyed some of his work. I think he's often self-indulgent and not half as funny as he's made out to be, particularly his later work (and it's about time he started dating people his own age in his films), but I've found some of his Stewff funny. I don't think I've ever laughed out loud at his Stewff; he's more of a "smile inwardly" kind of humourist, but I've certainly cracked a smile a couple of times.

As for italicising the titles of things, it's how I was taught to do it for my degree course. Articles are put in quotations, and the titles of books, films, TV programmes, etc. are either italicised or underlined. As hyperlinks are often underlined, (as are the titles at the top of essays), italicising seemed the way to go.