Favorite Woody Allen

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 9:34am

So many but right now I would say:
"Purple Rose of Cairo"
"Hannah and Her Sisters"
"Bullets Over Broadway"

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 9:46am

Hannah and her Sisters. I think it's the perfect film. When Michael Caine reads the e.e. cummings poem! Diane Wiest snorting coke at the Carlyle! So many wonderful moments I have to stop or this will be like 15 pages long...

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:01am

Everyone Says I Love You is one of the most original and fun movies I've seen lately. I love how it's a complete throwback to the old musicals of yore while still being a distinctive Woody Allen film. Woody rules!

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:10am

Oh! I forgot "Radio Days"!
One of my big faves.

[kjklo]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:20am

Broadway Danny Rose--heartbreaking
Zelig--the "talking heads" pontificating are worth it alone

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:36am

Zelig = good. :)

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:40am

OMG, I've found others that Like Hannah and her Sisters and Bullet's Over Broadway!!!!!!
In Hannah and her Sisters, I love everything about Dianne Wiest's Character, like her internal Monologue during the ride home with Carrie Fisher and some guy that they both liked.

In Bullets, I love when they have the cold reading and Jennifer Tilly reads her part, it's so funny!

I also love Dianne Wiest's monologue when she first enters the theater.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:54am

My top 5:

1.) Manhattan
2.) Annie Hall
3.) Hannah and Her Sisters
4.) Bananas
5.) Zelig

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 12:06pm

The in scene in Hannah and Her Sisters when he converts from Judaism to Catholicism is a riot. Out of a bag comes a crucifix, a bible, rosary beads, white bread.............

[jam_man]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 1:49pm

"Don't knock masterbation - it's sex with someone I love."


'Nuff said.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 3:34pm

Bullets Over Broadway
Hannah
Annie Hall

After the whole Soon-Yi thing, I can't watch Manhattan anymore without being creeped out.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 3:47pm

Margo, I had to go pick up something from him once and just prayed he wouldn't want to shake hands or something. Fortunately, he didn't.

[pattifan2]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 4:49pm

Definitely 'Bullets Over Broadway'..."Horses douvres!!! I don't know what they are and neither do you."

[Adoannie925]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 5:09pm

My favorite movies are "Sleeper" and "Annie Hall." "Love and Death," and "Bananas" are good, too. But then who's read "God" from "Without Feathers"? I love that play!!

[Jon]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 8:06pm

If you've never heard recordings of his stand-up comedy from the 1960's, you owe it to yourself to do so. His routine about shooting a moose is hysterical.

Go to Amazon.com and search for "Woody Allen Standup Live"
Updated On: 7/30/05 at 08:06 PM

[focusingonmoviesmatt]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 9:26pm

Bullets over broadway is my favorite. I love jennifer tilly. What ever happened to plans to turn this movie into a play?

[seymour krelborn]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 9:50pm

Bullets over Broadway and more recently Melinda and Melinda

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 9:53pm

I've only seen it once but remember liking "Alice".

[kjklo]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:08pm

"Alice" was highly underrated. With Bernadette Peters, Gwen Verdon, and Blythe Danner in the supporting cast, how can you go wrong?

"A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" was also underappreciatied. Nothing major, but very, very funny. Julie Haggerty was comic perfection as the dimwitted nurse Dulcie.

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:15pm

Is it a Woody Allen film where Bebe Neuwirth plays a Madam who gags on a banana?

I really love Radio Days - "Pearl Harbor, who's she?" and Diane Wiest as Aunt Bea.

[DoogieB]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:18pm

Ah, my hero. IMO...
1. Annie Hall- includes some of the greatest scenes in any movie
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors- thought provoking, landau is wonderful
3. Stardust Memories- underrated, strange but amazing
4. Take the Money and Run- "gub?"
Tied @ 5- Sweet and Lowdown, Broadway Danny Rose, Play It Again Sam, Don't Drink The Water
Ya..couldn't break em down.

[kjklo]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:02pm

DB, "Stardust Memories" was very misunderstood. It opened with a classic dream sequence on a train, and included Charlotte Rampling at her most stunning. As Dorie, I've always felt, she was possibly the most gorgeous actress at the highest peak of her beauty, ever.

It was an hommage to Fellini, but I think the paranoia and the grotesquerie turned a lot of people off.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 8:49am

I'm surprised no one has mentioned MIGHTY APHRODITE, featuring Broadway Baby Danielle Ferland (who was also in RADIO DAYS) and Mira Sorvino in her Oscar winning portrayal of "Judy Cum".

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 8:51am

"I loved you in The Enchanted Pussy."

Is Ferland (Casandra) Red Riding Hood and maybe the little girl in Sunday?
I'm pretty sure she's Fredrika in NYCO A Little Night Music.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 8:58am

Yes, that is Ferland - last seen in A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD.