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I am not sure I could have been less interested and more bored by Interiors. One of the few Woody Allen movies in which he does not star and this was his first drama, but Interiors just dragged…and dragged…and dragged.

A series of unrelated vignettes based on topics in the once controversial book. Most of them are not very funny, but because each one is short the movie does not drag. The last segment is the best, but I can’t recommend this movie. It’s just not that special.

My problem with this movie is the same one I have with much of Allen’s early comedies: too many jokes and it detracts from the storyline because everyone is cracking wise. That said, the “New Testament Cigarettes” ad cracked me up.

It just seems like Woody Allen is way to interested in trying to have his characters make a smart aleck remark than he is in moving the story around.

Ahh, this one didn’t do much for me. Samantha Morton was good as the mute, but Sean Penn needed a kick in his teeth. I know that was part of the point of his character, but unlikeable characters can also be watchable. Penn’s character wasn’t. I’ve never been crazy about Penn as an actor, though.

Woody Allen brings a documentary style to this abortive heist movie. Allen plays a rather inept career criminal who bumbles his way through crime, prison, escape, crime, and life. It’s one of his funnier movies and really shows some creativity.

I borrowed this one from the library today and…I don’t quite know what to think. It is the first collaboration of Woody Allen and Diane Keaton (I’d love to see them work together again), but it is so out there and slapsticky that I can’t really recommend it.

Allen is a health food store owner from the 1970’s who goes in for surgery and wakes up 200 years later and is thought an alien and goes on odd adventures while dropping sometimes clever one liners.

I just requested Sleeper, Manhattan, and Take the Money and Run from the library, so the next two weeks should be heavy on the early Woody Allen.

Then, when I rejoin Netflix in early October I already plan on requesting Bananas, Interiors, and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex.

Combined, that will give me a very nice run and will bring me up to 1980.

Woody Allen plays a private detective who is hypnotized and is given instructions to steal valuable jewels, but at the same time he is investigating the crimes. The movie serves to allow Allen and Helen Hunt to trade barbs and wise cracks and like an early Woody Allen movie the cracks come fast and furious, at times overwhelming the story Allen is trying to tell. Not really worth comsuming.

Meanwhile, I have a recording set for Sweet and Lowdown from IFC for later this week.

Good movie up until the final act where things just got surreal and out of place for what this movie was about.

I watched Love and Death yesterday. Funny movie. Woody plays a Russian pacifist who has to go to war and he loves his cousin (Diane Keaton) who loves everybody else. This is straight comedy as he drops jokes in on everything all the time.

It’s odd hearing Diane Keaton working the accent but Woody Allen plays Woody Allen…but then that’s what he does and it works.