One of Woody’s better efforts from his mid-career period. It’s pretty much a love letter to his childhood (or childhood era), but a realistic one. It doesn’t hide the warts, but it lovingly looks back.
It’s a good flick.
One of Woody’s better efforts from his mid-career period. It’s pretty much a love letter to his childhood (or childhood era), but a realistic one. It doesn’t hide the warts, but it lovingly looks back.
It’s a good flick.
This is when Woody Allen was really hitting his stride. Allen himself barely appears and the movie is stronger for it. This was when he knew what to do with his drama and let the story tell itself.
Another middling Woody Allen movie starring Scarlet Johannson as a young American reporter vacationing in England where a ghost of a great reporter gives her a scoop about a serial killer. It had touches of vintage Woody Allen, but overall Scoop was fairly dull.
One of Allen’s most inventive movies. After Tom Baxter stepped off screen the movie was nearly perfect and creative and fun. A very good entry in Allen’s filmography.
A group of comedians are sitting around discussing this legend they used to know and telling stories about him: Danny Rose (Woody Allen).
While Woody always plays Woody, this was a stronger performance by Allen as a theatrical talent manager of eccentric acts.
The movie itself, though, kind of dull.
A fake documentary about a man who can become anyone without really meaning to or know what he is doing.
First twenty minutes were enthralling and fascinating. After that, the joke ran dry. Very clever, very original, but not enough meat to fill up an entire movie, even a 75 minute movie.
Surprisingly decent and funny. A combination of bumbling crooks and the movement of low class people into money and trying to get culture and class. I had expected these later Woody Allen flicks to be all disappointing, but this one exceeded my low expectations.
It could not have ended soon enough…ugh. I never really appreciated the source material (the Shakespeare play) and this one didn’t work for me either.
Now Woody Allen is really using dialogue to its fullest. Intelligent and witty conversation and though Woody is playing Woody, here the whole thing is better than ever! One of Woody’s best.