What can you say at this point about Woody Allen? There are plenty of samples that is an artist, a noted actor-comedian-albeit limited, a prolific film director and an excellent writer, especially comedies with topics back and forth between the stories of couples, infidelity, family relationships, narcissism, culture, intellectuals and snobs, decay and happiness in fleeting, magical moments .- Recently, I was watching each and every one of the films written and directed by Woody Allen, who until today are Thirty-eight! And soon will add one more, Whatever works, this time with actor Woody. In scan mode varied, here are some comments on his films. Filmography
and gender
Woody Allen has filmed 38 films, of which 30 are comedies and / or dramatic comedy, and even a musical ( Everyone says I love you! ), and mockumentary ( Zelig ). The remaining eight are dramas, namely Manhattan, Match Point, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Husbands and Wives, Home, The Other Woman, Cassandra's Dream and September . Differentiating the humorous plays of dramatic overtones, we can place in the first column to Bullets Over Broadway, Bananas, middling Thieves, The Sleeper, Stole, fled and was caught, the last night of Boris Gruschenko, Vicky Cristina Barcelona , Broadway Danny Rose, Shadows and Fog, Manhattan Murder Mystery, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The eyes of others, Scoop, Everything you always wanted to know about sex ... and not afraid to ask!, and What happened to Tiger Lily? While the second column belong Annie Hall, two unlikely lovers, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Secrets of Harry, Celebrity, Memories, Mighty Aphrodite, sexual comedy of a summer night, Melinda & Melinda, Life and everything else, Alice and sweet and melancholy.
Allen and Oscar
As an actor, Woody Allen was part of 27 film credits, and got 1 Oscar nomination for best actor for Annie Hall . As director, Allen has 6 Oscar nominations: Annie Hall, Interiors, Broadway Danny Rose, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors and Bullets Over Broadway . As a writer got 6 nominations for the respective films, garnering three Oscars, a pair of Annie Hall (one statuette for best director) and the third for writing "Hannah and Her Sisters . The award for best screenplay for Annie Hall was shared with co-writer Marshall Brickman, who also co-wrote Manhattan and Manhattan Murder Mystery . But those 6 original screenplay nominations are added 9 most throughout his career, the stories of Manhattan, Match Point, Husbands and Wives, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Mighty Aphrodite, The Secrets of Harry Days of Radio Alice and . This means that as a writer, Allen has a record of 14 Oscar nominations! More other 6 as director, and 1 as an actor, a total of 21 nominations from the Academy.
vs Mia Farrow. Diane Keaton
His two more starring actresses and / or secondary. Farrow leads to Keaton, with 12 work on 7 , excluding participation in the medium-length Mia Allen made especially for the trio met in New York Stories , made by him, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola . Analyzing
magnifier, Farrow began with a lukewarm performance sex comedy ... but then came his brash and nuance Zelig comedian and Broadway Danny Rose , but lackluster in major works of filmmaker as Hannah and Her Sisters (ironically she was Hannah, but the film it Wiest stole the side, Caine, Allen, and even Barbara Hershey) or Crimes and Misdemeanors. But I really convinced that it was a remarkable actress in The Purple Rose of Cairo in a very beautiful that knew endow their emotions better. And that girl deserves special mention for ligerita Radio Days, a role that the writer Woody develop much later with a similar profile to the prostitute of Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite .
And Diane ... Diane! Undoubtedly one of the great Hollywood comedians of all time. Woody thought about it from the script of Annie Hall , and is known by the fact that the real name is Diane Hall, and called her Annie. In this masterpiece, melancholy, romantic, and raw and honest, she and he wonders up to these "two strange lovers" of the subtitle. Diane has excelled in every film of him, except perhaps his hybrid role Interior, overshadowed by the huge Geraldine Page. But alongside Allen was always the companion more chemical and grace. As proof, his first films together: The last night ... and Sleeper. And after Annie Hall, that other wonder of Manhattan .
The Side, the great merit of "actor's director Woody"
could forget Dianne Wiest (sister-limited fall in love Hannah ... or theater diva Shooting ... ), Judy Davis (Husbands unsatisfied wife ... and Celebrity ), Mira Sorvino (the nice "woman of the street" Powerful ... ) Penelope Cruz (Maria Elena de la loca Vicky Cristina ... ), Chazz Palmintieri and Jennifer Tilly (the gangster "playwright" and newcomer actress Shooting unbearable ... ), Sydney Pollack (his best role as an actor, Husbands ... ), Jeff Daniels (the heartthrob off the screen in La Rosa ... ), Mariel Hemingway (Manhattan lolita in ), Maureen Stapleton (the new wife Interior), Louise Lasser (great comedian Bananas and Everything You ... )
The alter ego has starred Allen
24 of his films, and shares short in a couple ( sweet and melancholy and Tiger Lily What happened? , his debut).
Any fan knows that always plays himself, or the character that was built from Stole, fled and was caught . Although it has revealed some dramatic nuances Husbands and Wives , Manhattan or Memories. But never fully embodied a dramatic role. Sometimes this character so often "lived", was held by the shells of other actors, as with Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters , John Cusack in Bullets Over Broadway , Kenneth Branagh in Celebrity , Tobey Maguire in The Secrets of Harry , Jason Biggs in life and everything else , Will Ferrell in Melinda & Melinda and the last Case, Larry David, in the upcoming Whatever works. Depth
couch radiographs couples, and fall into a common (but can not find another word) to define the immense work that built from its birth, in the odd story Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Sex ... , or the crazy relationship with Louise Lasser in Bananas .
Woody was saying in that area so intimate and indoors, starting with the confusing sexual infidelities Comedy ... , and then focusing on the couple, with expert mastery Annie Hall, Manhattan, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and sisters, husbands and wives, The other woman, until his last works, and more "washed", less intense, or too repetitive speech. Memories
But melancholy at the Allen family was a teacher and artist. Family stories rich in anecdotes and adventures Radio Days , fairy tales mixed with platonic romances in The Purple Rose of Cairo , or appeal the theater moved by the underworld in Bullets Over Broadway , or achieve "a hymn to life and love" with Everyone says I love you!
Similar but very different
Cassandra's Dream has a lot of the climate of Matcha Point and it is a relative faithful Crimes and Misdemeanors. Celebrity
O in many ways is twinned with Husbands and Wives and middling Thieves shares many genes with Stole, fled and was caught .
Also, Woody has made great tributes to Ingmar Bergman, in dramas Interiors, September and The other woman, or one very obvious to ½ Fellini's Eight and in Memories. And though she
shame, that is a pose of false modesty, many critics have related to the Marx Brothers or Buster Keaton. These artists, along with Vittorio De Sica and John Huston, among few others, have been constant references and teachers always in the way of Woody.
lights on them
Yes, Scarlett is a visual delight, but no one has returned to portrayed as Allen in Match Point . Or Charlize Theron, before Oscar and serious roles, has never been so loved by the camera as he recorded in Celebrity , which shone in every frame in the style Marilyn. Also difficult to take off from a paper so incredibly beautiful, expressive and natural as that of Diane Keaton in Annie Hall . Keaton could, although it took. But does
Mariel Hemingway could after that child / adult so tender of Manhattan ? Does Judy Davis have seen as strong and convincing as Husbands and Wives ? What was interesting role after Mira Sorvino Mighty Aphrodite ? And the great Jennifer Tilly, after Bullets Over Broadway ?
Big surprises were Elaine May and Tracey Ullman in Thieves middling, or Colin Farrell and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in Cassandra and Match Point, respectively. Not to mention
Mia Farrow! His career would not be anywhere near what it was without interbreeding with the teacher. Or the beloved Alan Alda, always warm and effective under vanes has allowed Allen show. Or the performance guarantee has been Diane Wiest in each share he got.
What there is to tell Mr. Allen? What accounts receivable may take the dream? Who is it measured? What other barriers can be crossed, after much walking? Woody is raw material, analysis, object of admiration, style, pattern, gender, learning, fun, grace, art. You can branch out too. This is a small cluster of certain things that has shaped, with the best weapons, legitimate, life itself, and your own powerful wit, talent, cunning and truth.
Woody Allen, ladies and gentlemen.
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