Woody Allen's EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU Finally Gets DVD Release October 11

[CapnHook]

Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:08pm

I have never seen this film. I haven't seen a Woody Allen film that I actually liked. I'm told I need to see this. I'm told it's a musical. I'm told that it has never had a DVD release. Apparently it is getting one since Netflix now has a release date on my queue for it.

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:11pm

I. HATE. WOODY. ALLEN.

That man is morally reprehensible!

[romantico]

Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:12pm

I just watched my DVD of this film a month ago.DVD has been out for years. Is this a reissue or blu ray release? GREAT movie.

Oh, and I love Woody's films!

Opening number:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBVhglUiJWg&feature=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czlIIju317A&feature=

Updated On: 9/22/09 at 11:12 PM

[romantico]

Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:18pm

Another great scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=simVfmYhMo4&feature=

[BDrischBDemented]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 2:07am

Wow. I too have never seen a Woody Allen film I've liked ("Annie Hall" was the closest I've gotten), but I've always wanted to see this just because it's a musical. Glad I'll finally be able to.

[blaxx]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 2:10am

Not even Bullets Over Broadway? I can't believe you don't like that one, it's so funny.

[tazber]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 5:58am

Woody is a hit or miss propositon for me, and ESILY is a definite miss. But I'm excited for it for it to be available as it demonstrates him trying something new artistically.

[madbrian]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 7:32am

I actually like this movie, and I'm not a huge Woody Allen fan. My other favorite of his is Small Time Crooks.

[romantico]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 7:59am

I loved Manhattan Murder Mystery. Predictable but so much fun!

[TimesSquareRegular]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 9:11am

This was released on DVD shortly after its theatrical run .... perhaps it's being reissued, or perhaps Netflix simply never stocked it before.

It's very much a hit-or-miss series of musical numbers, with a few that are throughly enjoyable, and the rest being simply tolerable.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 9:11am

EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU is a piece of sh*t. Badly written, badly acted, a piece of utter garbage, not unlike a good deal of other Woody Allen films.

When Allen is good, he's very good. When he's bad, as in ESILY and the wretched ANOTHER WOMAN, he's among the worst there is, down there in the muck with Zack Snyder and that other guy.

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 9:15am

But tell us how you really feel Roscoe, and this time don't hold back.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 9:22am

Everyone Says I Love You --- not so very good. I saw it in the theatre when it first was released. Everyone was so uncomfortable with their "charming musical numbers."

But worse than that, the story was SO very dull.

However, "Bullets Over Broadway" is a masterpiece. I'm surprised that anyone (especially anyone who visits this site) wouldn't think so.

[tazber]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 9:27am

Of the more recent Woody films, Bullets, Mighty Aphrodite, Sweet and Lowdown, and Match Point are all excellent.

The rest (and there are probably 10 or so in this time frame) are just not very good. Scoop? The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion? Anything Else? BLECH.

It's amazing to me how wildly the quality varies from good to bad with no in-between.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 9:33am

I love, in no particular order:

Annie Hall
Manhattan
Hannah and Her Sisters
Bullets Over Broadway
Radio Days

Ok, maybe in that order, actually.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 9:37am

I'm a huge fan of Radio Days. Also Sweet & Lowdown, and Annie Hall.

I like Mighty Aphrodite and several others.

And I recently rediscovered some of those early goofy films like Bananas, etc. Nothing overly brilliant, but damn funny!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 9:44am

Oh, Besty, you reminded me: "Love and Death" is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

It's like a Bob Hope movie written by Tolstoy and directed by Ingmar Berman.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:05am

The Good (ones I like and I'm probably missing a few here):
ANNIE HALL
MANHATTAN
LOVE AND DEATH
ZELIG
HUSBANDS AND WIVES
DECONSTRUCTING HARRY
INTERIORS
RADIO DAYS

The OK (ones that are passable or forgettable or that I just don't like as much as everyone else):
ALICE
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY
STARDUST MEMORIES
BROADWAY DANNY ROSE
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY

The UGLY (films I will never forget or forgive, for which Mr. Allen owes me a full refund and a written apology for having wasted my time):
SEPTEMBER
ANOTHER WOMAN
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
SHADOWS AND FOG
EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU
MIGHTY APHRODITE

I don't think it is just a matter of not liking the serious films vs. the "earlier funnier ones" because I still like INTERIORS and HUSBANDS AND WIVES a lot, even though those films contain a lot of the elements that would make SEPTEMBER and ANOTHER WOMAN and CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS absolutely unbearable. These three films just feel so airless and lifeless and labored to me. I'm never moved to give a damn about anyone or anything in them, and find the stories and relationships tired and contrived, with nothing done to make them fresh or interesting. In CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS we get the Landau character's friendship with the rabbi who is going ever-so-
symbolically blind (get it boys and girls?), which gives the movie a chance to introduce a tiresome dialogue about the lack of a moral structure in the universe and how can you live if you don't believe in a moral structure in the universe and I'm yawning just thinking about it. Now I don't mind dialogue about moral structure in the universe, I just don't think that Mr. Allen does it very well. It always feels like the characters are pausing so that Allen can make his SERIOUS POINT rather than having an actual discussion that actual people might actually have.

I can never forget that Allen has made very good fun of this kind of thing in the past. Several of the funniest moments in LOVE AND DEATH make fun of the tendency to launch into advanced philosophical discussions at the drop of a hat. Alvy Singer in ANNIE HALL markedly sits out a party full of phony intellectuals in order to watch a basketball game and make a pass at his wife ("they'll all be out there discussing modes of alienation, and we'll be in here, quietly humping" he says). The single saddest thing about Allen's work (to me at least) is that he has become what he used to make such vicious and entertaining fun of.

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:35am

Hannah and her Sisters could well be the best movie ever made.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:43am

Then again, maybe not.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:45am

Joe, care to expound a bit on HANNAH AND HER SISTERS as best film ever made?

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:51am

What can I say- I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats. I want to see it again and again.

I had never been a fan till then- great cast, great story. I really love it a lot.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:52am

OK. Thanks.

[Jon]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:34am

Roscoe - you never saw Hollywood Ending? It's the worst Woody Allen film I've ever seen.

Woody plays a film director who has an anxiety attack that leaves him with a case of hysterical blindness, and he tries to direct his movie without anyone catching on to the fact that he's blind.

One joke strecthed over 90 minutes - like the worst SNL sketch ever.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:39am

I watch "Hannah" at least once a year--usually around Thanksgiving, of course.

It's like a Peanuts special for me.