Which is your favorite Woody Allen film?

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This thread is designed especially for Woody Allen film fans. Which of his many films do you like the best?

For myself, I would narrow it down to “Crimes and Misdemeanors” and “Radio Days.” Both are wonderful and powerful! I have not seen all of his movies, however, particularly some of the more recent ones.

And you?
 
meltzerboy said:
This thread is designed especially for Woody Allen film fans. Which of his many films do you like the best?

For myself, I would narrow it down to “Crimes and Misdemeanors” and “Radio Days.” Both are wonderful and powerful! I have not seen all of his movies, however, particularly some of the more recent ones.

And you?
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Radio Days.
 
Might be easier to come up with movies that I Don’t like by Woody Allen ,
There are no movies by Woody Allen that I don’t like,
He is a Master of his Art ,
 
phil_at_dayboro said:
Might be easier to come up with movies that I Don’t like by Woody Allen ,
There are no movies by Woody Allen that I don’t like,
He is a Master of his Art ,
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Manhattan is a horrible movie. So is Shadows and Fog. Yeah, he’s had some movies that I like but many of them are so pretentious and “artsy” to completely turn me off. Crimes and Misdemeanors is probably my favorite, though the “misdemeanor” part with Alan Alda tends to derail the seriousness of Martin Landau’s story. Interiors is also a good one though it is incredibly painful. And have you ever noticed how in many of his movies everyone is either a writer, a professor or someone who is “teaching a class at Columbia?” :rolleyes:
 
Never could get more than 10 minutes into Annie Hall, which should tell you what I think of Woody Allen. He’s a disturbed man who will commit suicide some day.
 
unstoppable_II said:
Never could get more than 10 minutes into Annie Hall, which should tell you what I think of Woody Allen. He’s a disturbed man who will commit suicide some day.
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The human condition is a theme that cuts across virtually all of Woody Allen’s films, even the zanier early ones. As his movies (and personal life) reflect, he may very well be disturbed, as so many geniuses of their craft appear to be, and I believe he is a lifelong patient of psychoanalytic therapy according to what I read. I prefer to think of Woody Allen, however, as suffering from what I would call neurotic Jewish angst, consisting primarily of the existential fear of the abyss, which is somewhat different from Catholic angst, which I view as more a fear of damnation and hell.
 
Tim_D said:
Manhattan is a horrible movie. So is Shadows and Fog. Yeah, he’s had some movies that I like but many of them are so pretentious and “artsy” to completely turn me off. Crimes and Misdemeanors is probably my favorite, though the “misdemeanor” part with Alan Alda tends to derail the seriousness of Martin Landau’s story. Interiors is also a good one though it is incredibly painful. And have you ever noticed how in many of his movies everyone is either a writer, a professor or someone who is “teaching a class at Columbia?” :rolleyes:
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I agree there is a certain pretentiousness to many of Woody Allen’s films, as well as often a single theme and variations relative to the randomness and meaninglessness of life and humankind’s generally ill-fated search to confront and overcome the abyss. IOW, he is a Jewish New Yorker through and through.
 
meltzerboy said:
The human condition is a theme that cuts across virtually all of Woody Allen’s films, even the zanier early ones. …
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I worked in a walk-in theater while in college and saw many movies. To me, paying to watch a movie and analyze its “theme” is worse than analyzing a Thomas Hardy novel for a college course in rhetoric. I’m just not into such things as the search for the latent lesbianism in Moby Dick.
 
unstoppable_II said:
I worked in a walk-in theater while in college and saw many movies. To me, paying to watch a movie and analyze its “theme” is worse than analyzing a Thomas Hardy novel for a college course in rhetoric. I’m just not into such things as the search for the latent lesbianism in Moby Dick.
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No pressure here on forcing you to like Woody Allen movies. Apparently, you are not blase or neutral about his films, however. I’m also not much for searching for latent lesbianism, even in Moby Dick.
 
I am not a Woody Allen fan. I have seen a few of his films, but not all of them. he is a strange dude. I am not a fan of diane keaton either.
 
I never really got into Woody Allen films, although I remember watching “Take the Money and Run” on tv when I was about 7 with my 6 year old cousin.

I assume that most of it went over our heads, but we did get a kick out of the soap gun scene.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
I never really got into Woody Allen films, although I remember watching “Take the Money and Run” on tv when I was about 7 with my 6 year old cousin.

I assume that most of it went over our heads, but we did get a kick out of the soap gun scene.
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Yeah, my Irish father in law thought that was hysterical.
 
“Love and Death” is one I’ve watched dozens of times, and never get tired of. I’ve memorized large chunks of the dialogue by force of watching.
 
Not really a Woody Allen fan, but my favorite is Radio Days. It was nothing groundbreaking or provocative, just a really funny, funny movie.
 
DeniseNY said:
Not really a Woody Allen fan, but my favorite is Radio Days. It was nothing groundbreaking or provocative, just a really funny, funny movie.
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With the usual Woody Allen touches of melancholy and nostalgia interspersed throughout, and particularly in the closing scene. There is a depressing aspect to most of Woody Allen’s movies in their confrontation with life, death, true love, loss, grief, sex, morality, and the human condition.
 
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