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Summary: One of his best
Review: Hannah and Her Sisters, Annie Hall, and Mighty Aphrodite are the Woody Allen films most likely to appeal to any adults, although the lack of car chases turns some folks off. If you're shopping for someone who likes Woody Allen films, this is one to get, along with Crimes & Misdemeanors, Annie Hall, Love & Death (although that's not one of my favorites, it's big with other Woody fans), Interiors, and Manhattan.
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Summary: A film to enjoy again and again.
Review: Near perfect comedy/drama from Woody Allen doing what he does best - displaying the angst of the upper middle class against a Manhattan backdrop. Allen accurately described this as a 'novel on film' and so it is with chapter headings such as 'The anxiety of the man in the booth' and 'God she's beautiful!' frequenting the screen. Michael Caine is wonderful in a serious role but Woody takes the cake playing his typical nerd who tries to find new meaning in his life after being diagnosed with a brain tumour - converting to Catholicism to boot. Film has the usual classic lines. For example, after a trip to the doctor when it is revealed Woody(Mickey) has a low sperm count a conversation between him and Mia Farrow (Hannah) includes the following - Hannah: Could you have ruined yourself somehow? Mickey: How? Hannah: Excessive masturbation?. Mickey: You knocking my hobby? Those who liked "Annie Hall" and "Mighty Aphrodite" should like this.
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Summary: Richly Human
Review: This is a great story about how confusing human relationships can be and how people try to deal with the cards they are dealt in life. It's creative and witty, and don't forget smart!One of WA's best films ever! Also recommended: "Take the Money and Run"
Rating:
Summary: Richly Human
Review: This is a great story about how confusing human relationships can be and how people try to deal with the cards they are dealt in life. It's creative and witty, and don't forget smart! One of WA's best films ever! Also recommended: "Take the Money and Run"
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Summary: Vintage Allen
Review: Woody Allen has never made a movie appreciably better than 'Hannah.' It may not be his single best (an honor I reserve for 'Manhattan'), but it's on the shortest of short lists.
My favorite moment in the movie, and maybe Allen's most insightful ever, is when neurotic Mickey (played by Allen) bursts out of the hospital, having just learned that he is cancer-free. He leaps and bounds down the street, joy overflowing, until, suddenly, he stops, paralyzed with a newly imagined anxiety. Yes, Mickey was delivered from cancer, but he wasn't delivered from himself. You could look long and hard and never discover another ten seconds of filmmaking that better capture what it means to be human. Life's vicissitudes alternately beat us down and lift us up, but in the end, we always revert to ourselves.
When Woody Allen is at his best, you can't help but feel he's writing about *your* life, or something very close to it. Who hasn't experienced Holly's rejection in romance, Frederick's anguish and regret over squandering a relationship, Elliot's clumsy giddiness as he falls in love, Mickey's obsessive anxiety about death? There's a recognizable moment from my experience in almost every scene.
'Hannah and Her Sisters' also boasts Allen's single-best-ever soundtrack. I dare you to watch this movie and not tap your foot. The soundtrack is not available on CD, so that's one more reason to crack open the DVD for the dozenth time.
If you haven't seen 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' now's the time. If you have, it can't hurt to revisit a bona-fide classic.
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Summary: Amusing but not his best
Review: This movie, "Annie Hall", and "Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" are very fun to watch, cute and fluffy, but ultimately shallow. As for this movie, I honestly feel that its funniest aspect is its Harry James soundtrack, which cracked me up. But it just doesn't hold a candle to some of his deeper, more ironic, and better realized movies, such as "Crimes and Misdemeanors" and "Bullets Over Broadway".
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