Woody Allen's EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU Finally Gets DVD Release October 11- Page 2

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:52am

Jon, I didn't see HOLLYWOOD ENDING because Allen stopped being essential viewing for me around the time of CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS which a lot of people regard as a masterpiece and which I hated very bloody second of. I now usually catch his new stuff on cable, if at all.

[tazber]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:53am

What did you think of Match Point Roscoe?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:54am

I didn't really think much of MATCH POINT. It was okay, but nothing special. I'd forgotten about it until you mentioned it.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:55am

I enjoyed "Match Point" quite a bit, but I don't think of it as a Woody Allen movie somehow.

[tazber]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:57am

It was tonally very different form the majority of his work. I suppose that will be considered his "England phase".

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 12:01pm

MATCH POINT did rather remind me of Highsmith's TALENTED MR. RIPLEY. I liked that Allen's ending is closer to a Highsmith Ending, as opposed to the ending Minghella tacked on to that unfortunate film he made of RIPLEY.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 3:05pm

I am a Woody Allen junkie and I own them all, though it would/will be nice to have ANAMORPHIC transfers of the entire miramax period: MIGHTY APHRODITE, EVERYONE SAYS..., SWEET AND LOWDOWN and DECONSTRUCTING HARRY.

So, out of Woody's 41 films (and counting)....

It's REALLY difficult for me to even make a Top 5 list, so I gotta make it a Top 10. The thing about Woody is, seeing one of his films at 15 and now at 25 gives me so much more perspective. I really look forward to growing old with these films and revisiting them throughout my life.

My Top 10 Woody Allen Films (in order):
STARDUST MEMORIES
HUSBANDS & WIVES
DECONSTRUCTING HARRY
HANNAH & HER SISTERS
VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA
MANHATTAN
BROADWAY DANNY ROSE
ANYTHING ELSE
MATCH POINT
ANNIE HALL

SPECIAL MENTION: ALICE, SCOOP and MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY

And if I HAD to choose the 5 that I like least they would most undoubtedly be:

SHADOWS & FOG
ANOTHER WOMAN
BANANAS
SLEEPER
CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPIAN
SPECIAL MENTION: His segment of NEW YORK STORIES, while not ANYWHERE near as bad as Coppola's segment, in Woody-ese, "It's just... eh."

This list is subject to change at a moment's whim.

I think ANOTHER WOMAN, SEPTEMBER and INTERIORS are the only Woody films I WOULD NOT recommend to the uninitiated (unless they are Bergman fans) if only because they are VERY dour, drab and depressing with little to no levity and unlikeable "intellectual" characters. They have their merits, but are really of a completely different piece than the other films in his canon.

I love to watch MATCH POINT, SCOOP and CASSANDRA'S DREAM (John Waters favorite film of 2007 and CRIMINALLY underrated in mho), the British Trilogy, in that order on drizzly Sundays in the spring.

Nothin' like a good Woody Allen movie on a rainy weekend afternoon.

P

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 9/24/09 at 1:14am

I absolutely hate EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU. I think it's an awful film. I think I have such strong feelings about it is because I wanted it to be so good, I love the cast, I love a good Woody Allen film, and I love movie musicals, but as others pointed out, everyone seems so awkward and uncomfortable with the genre. And those songs! And that story! And... ugh, I really dislike this movie.
I think Woody Allen is definitely hit or miss. When he is good, I think he is brilliant, but when he is bad, he is simply terrible and I think very inconsistent as a director in that sense.
Has anyone mentioned CELEBRITY yet? What a strange film. I can't decide if I like it or not, but I thought that Bebe Neuwirth teaching Judy Davis how to give fellatio is one of the funniest things I've seen in ANY movie.
I will say the movies of his that I like, are movies that I truly adore. I think ANNIE HALL, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, and MIGHTY APHRODITE are some of my favorite movies, especially the first two. I also love ALICE. I've yet to see MANHATTAN and HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, but I intent to watch them.
Of his new movies I gotta say I really enjoyed MATCH POINT, but I loved VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA which reminded me of a Pedro Almodovar movie.
I love that he can get so many great female performances in his movies. Diane Keaton, Diane Wiest, Mia Farrow, Mira Sorvino, and Penelope Cruz have all been fascinating to watch in his films.

[blaxx]

Posted: 9/24/09 at 1:26am

Did anyone catch Whatever Works? How was it?

[Jon]

Posted: 9/24/09 at 11:10am

The plot of "Match Point" was somewhat ripped off from Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy" - later made into the movie "A Place in the Sun" (Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters).