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Steve Larkin's avatar

The thing is that "stuck-up philistine who parades himself as unbearable know-it-all" isn't not a description of Allen (whose work, to be clear, I like) and in "Annie Hall" he shows some awareness of that fact.

Have you seen "Broadway Danny Rose"? (Nobody ever talks about it but me.) It's my favorite Allen movie besides "Annie Hall," and the character he plays in it has little to do with the usual Allen persona. It feels like a conscious attempt to leave "Woody Allen" behind and be somebody else, somebody better

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Henry Oliver's avatar

Not for many years, will rewatch. I don't mean that Allen is the know-it-all, but that he is just too "Woody Allen" to make Annie Hall work for me.

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Steve Larkin's avatar

My one-sentence read of "Annie Hall" is that it's a kind of self-critique, since it's a story of Annie outgrowing Alvy

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Henry Oliver's avatar

Yeah I can see that. I just think making the irritating guy in the movie line the hero of a movie was a stronger move overall. I'm never going to persuade anyone lol.

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Ephie's avatar

I am loving that you have continued to write on your observations of Woody Allen films.

Steve is correct that Broadway Danny Rose seems to fly under the radar despite being a very good film.

There is a well done podcast called The Woody Allen Pages Podcast, this is the episode covering Broadway Danny Rose.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-6-broadway-danny-rose-1984/id1566970365?i=1000552142145

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Daniel Gascón's avatar

Great film, and post. But I think When Harry Met Sally is an earlier film than Bullets

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Henry Oliver's avatar

Tremendously good point

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Rainey Knudson's avatar

Hannah and her Sisters all the way.

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Henry Oliver's avatar

Love it

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Wegway's avatar

“Woody Allen” will become a thing you can do, a noun which eventually might give birth to an adjective or adverb applicable to other things as well. If this is true, that’s really something.

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Ken Kovar's avatar

Zellig is an amazing film just like Forest Gump 😎

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Steve Bunk's avatar

I loved Bullets Over Broadway, too, and I think Woody Allen's attempts to juggle the comic and the serious are fascinating in his work. He went overboard in Interiors although the early scene of character without dialogue was masterful. But Crimes and Misdemeanors was the perfect, unnerving blend. My favorite.

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Monica's avatar

Woody Allen interviewing Twiggy is certainly worth a watch …….

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