Plus the executives who bought the pitches, the agents who made the deals, and the audience members who paid to see them and enjoyed them and wrote to their Congressmen about how these types of movies should keep getting made. .... I don't want to seem like I am against creepy narcissistic comedy writers who sleep with then marry their step-daughters, but Woody Allen just isn't very funny anymore. Larry David does a decent job in a movie without a story, but Larry is more ...

See Doctor Zhivago. Allen instead transfers his usual comic persona and scattershot approach to humour to the Napoleonic Wars, spoofing everything from Tolstoy to Eisenstein and expecting his audience to be in on the joke, ...

Up at the crack of 2pm! I had travelled through time so it was actually 11. Brad and Garth took me out to breakfast and talked about making an appearance at their work but decided to go to the lake instead. .... on the side" quoting a Woody Allen movie and handing me some fine buds for the road. Ah what a woman! She made me an omelet that was bigger than my head and a giant plate of fresh fruit. Went for a bike ride and headed back to the crash pad ...

Instead of breaking new ground in romantic films, it relies on building from and extending out of Allen's time-tested innovations. But if you want to see Woody Allen at his finest, and take a ride in that crazy Volkswagen bug with ...

Instead of Bergman or Fellini, this time Allen is invoking the François Truffaut of Jules and Jim and Eric Rohmer in his many meditations on the game of love. The entire cast is terrific (both Hall and Johansson get to play "the Woody part" at .... The dialogue is quintessentially Woody Allen. As such it is a film of words rather than action. However, the film is set against the backdrop of beautiful Barcelona in summer. Indeed, as with so many of Woody Allen's films, ...

Now I'm not saying all foreign movies and Woody Allen moviess are rubbish, just that the majority of them are. Most people only tend to watch them to show how 'cultural' and 'intellectual' they are. Either that or they watch them in the hope of ... We all have to pretend to be amazed when we see the latest piece of modern art, a BLANK canvas, which symbolizes the 'artists purity'. Yeah I'll show you purity, purity in your face. Or a fire extinguisher that encapsulates the ...

"Hast see the white whale" and all that. But I know you can make great PoMo art too (Paul's Boutique anyone?). In the case of V, I simply think that whatever references exists further instead of undermining the story's basic thrust, and, ... Of course the two can crossover (all that great magical realism from Machado DeAssiss to Woody Allen's Alice, Chabon et al's script for Spidey 2--that's my favorite stuff, I'm not really a fan of pure fantasy a la Lord of the Rings); ...

Well Alan, I once sat on a Southwest flight from Vegas to LA next to Woody Harleson. He was high. Didn't remember ordering a coke while counting $10000 and tried to get me to go gamble at Larry Flint's casino in LA. Yeah. He was fucking cool. ... Ok, folks, it's commericial time – who would you have liked to see nominated instead? 500 Days of Summer, perhaps, or Julia. March 7, 2010 at 8:52 pm. Bradley Says: Sugababes in a JC Penney commercial? March 7, 2010 at 8:52 pm ...

In 1977, when “Star Wars” was the breakthrough movie, it lost best picture to Woody Allen's low-budget comedy “Annie Hall.” And in 1982, when “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” was rewriting box office records, it was beaten for best picture by “Gandhi. ... It eventually opened “Hurt Locker” last summer as counter programing instead of in the fall, when most serious dramas get a showcase launch. Summit turned the Oscar strategy over to PR firm 42 West, where veteran campaigner ...