The forty-two-year-old main character breaks up with his seventeen-year-old girlfriend to be with the ex-mistress of his best friend. He also decides to quit his job as a TV show screenwriter and start writing an actual book. However, his ex-wife, who leaves him for another woman, beats him to it in writing that book. The film's incredible success speaks; it's definitely worth watching!
The life of professional tennis player Chris Wilton is falling apart. He still hopes that someday everything will go back to normal, so he gets a job as an instructor at a London club. As usual, the ending is unpredictable and thoroughly amusing.
This is a mockumentary about Leonard Zelig - a human chameleon. Zelig can be whoever he wants, he has the ability to instantly transform into a Chinese person or an African American, a baseball player or a pilot.
He can easily change his political views or religion depending on the circumstances and the opinion of people around him at the drop of a hat. This is a profound story about the worrying symptoms of our time. The film centers on an ambitious young journalist Scarlett Johansson and an elderly magician Woody Allen who uncover the striking truth about the identity of a serial killer who turns out to be an English aristocrat.
Directed and acted in the lead role by Allen, this film is about a frustrated divorced TV writer, who falls in love with a teenage girl. In , the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Another Allen directorial, this romantic comedy was awarded the Oscars for Best Picture. Allen also received his only best director Oscar for this film. For his work, the Guardian called it "Allen's most closely focused and daring film to date.
Society, lust, greed and desperation are all intricately dramatized into a carefully crafted masterpiece set in London. Chris Wilton, played by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, is a retired and financially distraught man who takes on the job of a tennis coach, and falls in love with the sister of one of his students.
As their relationship flourishes, Chris becomes addicted to the finer realities of life. Later sparks fly between him and Nora, a struggling American actress; unable to contain his lust for her and unable to let go of the high life Chris finds himself making dark and terrible decisions.
Small Time Crooks Telling the tale of hapless criminal Ray — played by Woody Allen — and a bank job that goes awry, the film was a critical success, and was nominated for several awards. Slick, smooth and comical, this is a timeless film which will forever be a classic of the movie industry.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona Annie Hall Possibly the most widely loved and cherished of his films, Annie Hall tells us that our ideas of what a relationship should be are often very different to that of reality. A miss, but only just. Thankfully, such desperate measures were not required. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is smart, sassy and sexy. He has the unique ability to transform his demeanour and appearance in order to suit his current environment.
He is all things to all people. Completely nondescript, yet utterly unforgettable. This curio of a film follows Zelig as he unassumingly shuffles through the Twenties and Thirties, bumping into assorted luminaries, including politicians, celebrities and other figures of historical curiosity along the way.
The film itself wrestles with a split personality. The film succeeds on both counts. The director re-teams with Diane Keaton for this fizzy tale about a pair of amateur sleuths who suspect foul play when their next door neighbour shuffles off the mortal coil in the most mysterious of circumstances. Alan Alda impresses as curious best pal Ted. Hot trivia: the screenplay dates back to the seventies, starting life as an early draft of Annie Hall.
Woody sends a letter of love to Anton Chekhov. Mia Farrow leads another terrific cast as Lane, a woman slowly readjusting to the world after a botched suicide attempt. But the late, great Elaine Stritch takes it all, as is her right. Divorce, depression, suicide and rape. Has Woody Allen ever made a more serious and sombre film? Interiors is a leap of faith for Woody fans. Bolstered by the success of Annie Hall, this morose tribute to Ingmar Bergman marks the moment when Woody transforms into the complete film-maker.
Does he get away with it? Interiors is the kind of film that feels like it has a million things to say, but without the appropriate toolkit at its disposal. Still, powerful performances from the likes of Geraldine Page and Diane Keaton. Woody takes a glimpse into our pastel future and sees a techno nightmare of mechanical sex, emotionless interactions and genetically exaggerated bananas.
Like the very best science-fiction and Sleeper is, for all its apparent frivolity, great science-fiction the film says more about the period of its creation than anything else. The most visionary Woody Allen film of them all? Undoubtedly, and also one of his most nihilistic. Fire up the Orgasmatron. Middle-class magical realism for boozy bookworms.
Woody takes on Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Stein in a gin-fizzed fantasy that sees Owen Wilson drunkenly travelling back through time to clash heads with the ghosts of our intellectual past. The film nostalgically chronicles his life and loves, as well as the occasional run-in with the mob. Woody revels in the process of sheer storytelling, and it showcases one of his best ever soundtracks, too.
An absolute cappuccino of a movie: light, frothy, a hint of bitterness at its centre. The film tells the tall tale of a neurotic, romantically incompetent writer naturally! As usual, Alda gets a chunk of the best lines, particularly when sparring with his fiercely Republican younger son Lukas Haas. Norton and Barrymore make for a darling central combo. The parallels are clear: Woody plays Gabe, a fatigued academic who develops an infatuation with a student Juliette Lewis , the kind of doomed obsession that threatens to destroy his marriage with long-suffering wife Judy Farrow.
Husbands and Wives is unflinchingly honest, caustically witty, and probably about as close to a confessional as Woody gets. The premise of The Purple Rose of Cairo is an idea of such creative elegance that only an intensely complicated and neurotic film-maker like Woody Allen could have dreamt up the damn thing.
Evoking a beautifully grim, Depression-era New Jersey, the film follows Cecilia Mia Farrow as she watches her favourite movie, a rip-roaring romantic adventure called The Purple Rose of Cairo. This time around, however, something strange and intoxicating happens: the hero of the piece, an archaeologist called Tom Baxter Jeff Daniels , stops the movie to address Cecilia directly, stepping out of the screen and straight into the middle of the theatre.
Hannah and Her Sisters was the highest-grossing Woody Allen film at the US box-office until Midnight in Paris gaily galloped its way into view a couple of years ago. It was the kind of breakout success that rarely happens anymore: a serious comedy of substance, with a lot on its mind.
A mid-Eighties anomaly, then, albeit a transfixing one.
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