One of your favorite songs is a movie?
EDIT I haven’t seen much Allen but I loved Hannah and Her Sisters.
Sorry messed that up. I meant Rhapsody in Blue, the George Gershwin piece used in the film. Jeesh!
Manhattan is my favorite of his. So you started with, what i think is, his best. But i would now recommend Stardust Memories. Another person might tell you Annie Hall.
I’ll be that person. Watch Annie Hall!
Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters are my two favorites, but seriously even if you never find a Woody Allen film you love as much as Manhattan I guarantee you’ll find many more that you love. Hell I’m one of the rare folk who think he’s made many more good movies than bad ones.
If you want to see him at his comic best I’d recommend Love and Death and Zelig.
Adding Stardust Memories and Annie Hall to my list…My netflix list that is, but the thing is…Well it’s pretty damn long.ha and organized. Occasionally I will put a movie at the top that I really wanna see…Should Annie Hall be that movie….?
I think Sleeper and Everything you wanted to know about sex are comically his best films. But lately ive been particularly prone to his dramas particularly Interiors, Another Woman, and Match Point. Although Annie Hall, Manhatten, and Sleeper are my personal favorites, those other films are the ones I’m interested in now
Hidden, Yes, yes it should.
And I second the love for Stardust Memories. I agree it’s in his top 10 best.
@Hidden Behind the Screen: Avoid his most recent movies. You can thank me later.
…but seriously, I’ve never really appreciated Woody Allen very much. It’s not that I dislike him or his movies, it’s just that I very much have a different world view. The general basis of his work seems to be “lonely people wandering haplessly in an unknown, incomprehensible and inhospitable universe looking for someone or something to collapse onto” if you get what I mean.
this film is the first indication of woodys conflicted relationship with young girls! at least isaac davis ,the character played by woody, has the resolve to finally leave the callow seventeen year old mariel hemingway
Broadway Danny Rose
Hannah and Her Sisters
Sweet and Lowdown
Stardust Memories
I prefer his early, funny movies: TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN and BANANAS.
Yes, Take the Money and Run is a great film, showcasing Allen’s own brand of absurdist humor. Stardust Memories is probably my favorite, but aside from his “masterpieces” (people keep saying Manhattan and Annie Hall sheesh) I enjoyed his musical, Everyone Says I Love you and his dark comedy Crimes and Misdemeanors) Some people I’ve talked to actually feel that that C&M is his best film.
I have yet to see Crimes and Misdemeanors mentioned, which I’d rank just behind Annie Hall and Manhattan.
haha, vic pardo.
I can’t stand Stardust Memories (stupid pretentious 8 1/2 wannabe…), but Love and Death, Bananas, Annie Hall, and Hannah and Her Sisters are amazing. Match Point and Scoop aren’t half bad either.
we all know, sam, that ‘stardust memories’ is a homage-remake of ‘8 and a half’ and that ‘radio days’ is another sincere homage-remake of ‘amarcord’. there’s no secret and there’s nothing bad in that.
I know that it’s meant as a homage, I just don’t think it succeeds. And I have nothing against Radio Days.
Hidden Behind the Screen
My first “experiance” I guess you could say, with Woody Allen, and I’m head over heals. Not only did I love the direction, editing, pasing, music (Rhapsody in Blue is one of my favorite songs ever)…But I loved Woody as an actor! He was so funny. The scene where they were in the art museum and everything he hated she liked and everything he liked she hated…The look of hopelessness on his face after he finds out she liked that steel cube was so great.
This, to me was a perfect movie. Perfect charectors, perfectly written, perfectly acted (well, I did think Tracy was a tad amateurish.) and pefeclty edited. A strange little sidenote…I’ve always imagined something very similar to the opening and closing montages whenever I heard Rhapsody in Blue…It upset me a little that he did it almost identical to how I imagined it (thus I could never do it now), but I soon got over it.
Another strange little side note. When I was a little kid I wished my name was Woody. It wasn’t cause of Woody Allen though, it was cause of Toy Story…hehe.
Anyway to make a long story short. Is there anything of Woody Allen’s that is similar to Manhatten/as perfect as Manhatten? I really thought it was a masterpiece, I’m afraid of being let down if I explore further… Where should I go from here???