I was fortunate enough to catch a pre-screening of "Match Point" a
couple of days ago, and I must say that the film blew me away. This is
a true return to brilliance for Allen, and strikingly poignant movie
regardless of if you are a fan of the director or not. While I don't
want to give much away, I must say that the key questions that the film
raises are those of love vs. lust and, perhaps more importantly, luck
vs. hard work. While the instability of the relationships in the film
leaves the former question more up in the air, the latter is perhaps
more easily debatable in the context of Rys Meyers' character. What do
you guys think? Is lust or love more realistic? And is it better to be
lucky or good?

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Welcome.

The group has become very inactive.

If you post some things, there might be replies, there might not.

All I can say is try.

--- In thewoodyallenadorers@yahoogroups.com, "pebbles285c"
<pebbles285c@y...> wrote:
>
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http://www.ardice.com/Arts/Performing_Arts/Acting/Actors_and_Actresses
/B/Biggs,_Jason/
> Hello, I found this group at this website.

http://www.ardice.com/Arts/Performing_Arts/Acting/Actors_and_Actresses/B/Biggs,_\
Jason/
Hello, I found this group at this website.

A novel based on the Columbine High Massacre will be released in May
2005.

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I can see "Deconstructing Harry" as a spinoff from Bergman's "Wild
Strawberries" and "Celebrity" as a spinoff from Fellini's "La Dolce
Vita" . . . it is not going to be that unusual for people to do
things that reflect things they have been exposed to . . .
jazzplayers used to often have quotes of other songs in their
solos . . . a lot of Shakespeare takes its plots from earlier
sources . . . there are also only so many plot variations you can
have, only so many ways you can shoot two people talking to each
other . . . I suppose the big thing is how you handle it all . . .
there are some things that distract me, though, like there is a
gunfight in a train station in De Palma's "The Untouchables" and
there is a baby-carriage going down the steps, it is almost certainly
lifted from Eisenstein's famous Odessa Steps sequence in "The
Battleship Potemkin", the babycarriage itself has appeared in Woody
Allen's "Bananas" and I believe one of the Naked Gun or Police
Academy movies, I think when you are trying to be serious, it
distract from a mood . . .

--- In thewoodyallenadorers@yahoogroups.com, markholmes_99
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> hi! this is a first post from a first-time member. first of all, i
> can't believe that i found this group -- this is so great. i've
been
> dying to talk about woody allen's films for a while and it's nice
to
> finally have an outlet for that. that said, i have to admit that
i'm
> really into woody's more dramatic oeuvre -- my favorite
> being 'interiors' -- i personally feel that this film is unfairly
> maligned, especially with stupid comments referring to it as a
> bergman rip-off. well then so what if it's a bergman rip-off? it's
> still freaking good -- it's so haunting, especially that shot of
the
> three sisters looking out the window, and geraldine page...anyway i
> just wanted to know what other people think of this film and
whether
> you guys also wish that woody would make these types of films in
the
> future...
>
> by the way another savage comedy along the lines of the very funny
> deconstructing harry would not be so bad either...

Of course Woody idolizes Bergman and took a couple of shots at
imitating his style. Nothing wrong with that and he did a good job of
it. Even two of his comedy/dramas were named after Bergman films
(Crimes and Misdemeanors, Husbands and Wives).

Not easy to find. This site has a few and lots of other stuff.

http://torp.priv.no/woody/#filmography

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hi! this is a first post from a first-time member. first of all, i
can't believe that i found this group -- this is so great. i've been
dying to talk about woody allen's films for a while and it's nice to
finally have an outlet for that. that said, i have to admit that i'm
really into woody's more dramatic oeuvre -- my favorite
being 'interiors' -- i personally feel that this film is unfairly
maligned, especially with stupid comments referring to it as a
bergman rip-off. well then so what if it's a bergman rip-off? it's
still freaking good -- it's so haunting, especially that shot of the
three sisters looking out the window, and geraldine page...anyway i
just wanted to know what other people think of this film and whether
you guys also wish that woody would make these types of films in the
future...

by the way another savage comedy along the lines of the very funny
deconstructing harry would not be so bad either...

Can someone please e-mail me the exact quote from "Sleeper" about the
orgasmatron, and the name of the character that asked Miles the
question. It was something like:

"Why are you looking so happy?"

"I've just been in the orgasmatron."

Many thanks,
David

Calling all you Woody Allen fans ...

M4F6 productions presents:

Play It Again, Sam
by Woody Allen

New York in 1972 and Allan Felix is a mess.  Neurotic at the best of
times, his wife has just left and he doesn't seem to be able to get
the hang of dating. Luckily help is at hand from some unlikely
sources....

Following the storming success of After Paradise, M4F6 brings more
relationship comedy to the London fringe, directed by David Boxer.

Performances:

Thursday 1st April - 8pm
Friday 2nd April - 8pm
Saturday 3rd April - 6pm
Sunday 4th April - 4pm

Venue - The Rosemary Branch, 2 Shepperton Road, N13 - between
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Tickets selling fast - max availability on Friday 2nd.

--- In thewoodyallenadorers@yahoogroups.com, luigi_marra
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Ever been in a place after a long time since you were gone....
> Come on... let's see some comebacks in here!

Well, I never posted much before, but hello! I enjoy Woody Allen's
comedy and movies quite a bit. Actually, I enjoy many of the
comedians from the 1960s. It's very difficult to write the sort of
cerebral humor that people like Woody Allen, Mort Sahl, Elaine May
and Mike Nichols, and so many others used to excell in. Perhaps
that's why so much modern comedy rarely hits the heights of someone
like Woody.
-CH

--- In thewoodyallenadorers@yahoogroups.com, luigi_marra
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Ever been in a place after a long time since you were gone....
> Come on... let's see some comebacks in here!

Ever been in a place after a long time since you were gone....
Come on... let's see some comebacks in here!

I think it's from "Macedonian lady" (1988)... but i am not sure
I'll try to find out.

--- In thewoodyallenadorers@yahoogroups.com, "arielagur"
<arielagur@y...> wrote:
> does somebody recognize the following words: what movie is it from?
>
> "you never call!, i sit here, alone in the dark, I could die and
> nobody will notice...your poor father, may he rest in peace, also
> didnt notice, and look where he is today...soon it will all be over
> for me, you break my heart, why dont you ever call me?"....
>
> help!! :)

Hello to everyone ,
I hope you will visit my web site for Woody Allen collectors :
http://www.parallels.demon.co.uk/woody.html
best wishes to you all , Andy

Welcome to the group. As you go along, his early
movies tend to be the most slapstick, the middle ones
have quite a bit of experimentation but can also be
funny, and his late ones can get sharp as a tack!

Hope you enjoy his work over the decades. It is truly
an achievement!


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> Hi, im donna and im new. I never knew who woody
> allen is untill
> about 5 weeks ago. My school is doing two one act
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> allen, God and Death. Im in god, so we have been
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Hi, im donna and im new. I never knew who woody allen is untill
about 5 weeks ago. My school is doing two one act plays by woody
allen, God and Death. Im in god, so we have been learning a lot
about him. My parents dont like him but yea.

does somebody recognize the following words: what movie is it from?

"you never call!, i sit here, alone in the dark, I could die and
nobody will notice...your poor father, may he rest in peace, also
didnt notice, and look where he is today...soon it will all be over
for me, you break my heart, why dont you ever call me?"....

help!! :)

Thanks.  I hope you won't be offended by what I say next, but
sometimes people zip in here with things, and then disappear.  I
scanned the file using a major commercially marketed virus program,
and it seems fine, thought I would mention this in case anyone else
is interested.  The recording is about a minute and a half and rather
interesting and I suppose a very good point. Certainly there is a lot
to be said for presence, for likeability, identification on some
level, and just being funny.  Jack Benny could make people laugh
saying "Well", but I noticed that when Larry Hagman would say the
same word on "Dallas", people did not laugh . . .

There is a very old joke about this guy being invited by a friend to
a joketellers convention.  Everybody at the convention that had been
there before new all the jokes, you didn't really need to retell the
joke, you could just say the number. One guy gets up and says "272"
and everybody is just rolling in the aisles.  A woman gets up and
says "932" and everybody is just laughing so hard tears are coming
out of their eyes.  Then a guy gets up and says "815" and the room is
silent and people are just kind of looking around.  The new guy says
to his friend, "How come everybody laughed when the guy said '272'
and when the woman said '932', but not when the third guy
said '815' . . ." and his friend says, "Well, but he didn't tell it
very well . . ."


I did notice Woody Allen said "floor" with two syllables.  I have
noticed that some New Yorkers also say "beer" with two syllables.
People are interesting.

--- In thewoodyallenadorers@yahoogroups.com, Tony Ferguson
<tonyferguson70@n...> wrote:
> Also see file uploaded.  Enjoy it!
>
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Also see file uploaded.  Enjoy it!


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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

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Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the commercials Allen directed for a
restuarant called The Coop? These are mentioned in Brian Hamill's "Woody Allen
At
Work."