Day #19 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #19 of the 30 Day Film Challenge - a film made by a favorite director or a director you happen to like.

Thank you for all the comments - sorry, I've not been responding. I'm struggling with focusing at the moment and things..well...

Mine is Peter Weir - in case you don't know who directed the film provided below. Weir, an Australian director, is among my favorites. I've seen pretty much all of his films.

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Comments

[cjlasky7]

Exactly: what makes C&M so effective is that Woody's story is off to the side, commenting on the main plot with Landau. Allen gets a lot of solid laughs from Alan Alda, playing what could be considered a nasty parody of himself. That Alda's character "gets the girl" at the end was the perfect sour cherry on top.

There have been a few good Woody Allen movies since the 1990s, but for the most part, his movies have devolved into lazy nostalgia. Personal scandals aside, he's just not very interesting these days.

[shadowkat]

I agree, he kind of lost his mojo or burned out sometime after the 1990s. I haven't fond his films all that memorable since then. And kind of gave up after a certain point. I'd have to say I can't even remember the names of the Allen films I've seen since the 1990s. While I do remember the ones he made in the 20th Century.

Actors love him though - apparently because he's a very good "actor" director. Let's them improve, is flexible, and challenges them. Also he can write great dialogue when he wants to. I actually preferred the dialogue in his plays to Neil Simon's - which got repetitive. Both tended to write mainly about themselves though, except I felt that Allen branched out more. (I read all of Simon's plays in high school too.)