I saw part of that on t.v. I was very distracted at the time you
posted and have been since around that time. I myself liked what I
saw. I don't know if it is commercially available, I think where I
saw it was on Turner Classic Movies or something.

Some of your favorites are some of my favorites.

This club is quiet, very quiet sometimes [there hasn't been much
comment on the newest Woody Allen film, I missed it myself]. I
myself, I don't get to get to the movies much, I often used to see
somewhere between three to five movies a week if there wasnt a
festival, and if there was a festival, it would jack up a bit, but
during the past few years there have been things that have limited my
being able to see movies, responsibilities and so on. I saw a movie
with Isabelle Huppert, something like "La vie promise" at a festival
recently and most of a longer version directors's cut of "Cinema
Paradiso" at an old restored cinema palace, but things with my
children have been pre-occupying, there have been some problems. I
am now [I mean nowadays, when I can] visiting with them in the NYC
area, they are more than 1200 miles away. It is hard. We do things
like go around Brooklyn and Manhattan, go to the zoos and we visited
the Coney Island boardwalk recently, I am sure some of these things
have been in Woody Allen films. It is expensive for me to go up
there to see my kids, and so I try to scrimp on my money. I was
astonished when I first saw an ultrasound of my daughter and later my
son, this is something that is so much more than a movie, at least to
me, mindblowing, and there are just things like watching my son look
at the Central Park Zoo penguins, it is better than a movie to me.
And after seeing people run towards the camera away from all that
collapsing dust and debris and so on on September 11, I don't know
what a James Bond film means any more, or whether it matters that
much to me to see Tom Cruise run towards me away from a fireball.

We may go to Playland sometime when it is warmer, these sort of
places are often closed when it is cold, Playland has been in a lot
of movies, including "Sweet and Lowdown", I think it is in "Fatal
Attraction", "Big", "Muppets Take Manhattan" and some other movies,
people who are from New York probably know this stuff better.

I watched William Holden and Kim Novak in "Picnic" again recently on
a video I have, a film from the 1950s that I thought I would hate.
Some of the acting is a bit stagy, and there are some fights where,
in old movies, they didn't always do real realistic punches, and
there is a subplot that slows it down a little bit for me, but this
is a movie that seems to always affect me and I find myself feeling
things just over things like Hal saying "Hi" to Madge and Madge
says "Hi" back, there is a moment where she shuts a car door, and I
feel stuff . . . there are other things, but I wouldn't want to give
it away.


--- In thewoodyallenadorers@yahoogroups.com, "jonniklas"
<jonniklas@y...> wrote:
> Hi fellow woody fans.
>
> I am a big woody fan from norway. I am so sad because yesterday i
> missed out on a woody documentary on swedish tv called "a life in
> film". Is this film released on dvd? If not, does anyone want to
> trade this documentary with some other woody stuff i might have. I
> would be thrilled! please e-mail me at: jonniklas@y...
>
> Some of my favorite woody films, btw:
> *Manhattan
> *Annie Hall
> *Crimes and misdemeanors
> *Alice
> *Hannah and her sisters
> *Sweet and lowdown
>
> Jon Niklas