The latest in Rekha's goal to watch every WA film. I actually don't remember this from seeing it the first time around. There's a lot of cleaver stuff but the female characters aren't really fleshed out and it made me not really care about the protagonist's relationships nor his vague search of love and meaning. Maybe it's that this is supposed ( Read more... )

Last night Captain Foxy played a show for OPIRG which was fun. They gave us a two-four, which, I thought was excessive, but I went with it. It was cool to play with the Suicide Pilots who have a pretty cool sound. Al, the singer, is the one who originally got me into punk rock when I was 15 or whatever and at one point he said, "This next song ( Read more... )

Rekha has recently discovered that she loves Mia Farrow. What a great excuse to watch all these great old films. Farrow is like Woody Allen's Anna Karina (Diane Keaton is his Anne Wiazemsky). You can just see that his camera loves her. I noticed two things that I didn’t pick up the first time I watched it: that this film is simultaneously a ( Read more... )

It's a little-known fact that in eleventh-grade drama class I performed as the doctor in a production of Woody Allen's play, Death. which starred Graeme Beamish as Kleinman.

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Sorry for all the postings. I have a cold and have spent the weekend doing little else than watching videos.

I've seen this movie three times now. This was one of those, rather than me renting Orson Welles' The Trial, let's get something we'll both enjoy kind of selections ( Read more... )

I bet this film was really easy for him to make. The film has a really relaxed and comical attitude toward death which is funny because Woody is usually neurotic about death and dying. “I’m not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens ( Read more... )

Got some free passes to the Robert Altman movie. I had some high hopes because I really dug Gosford Park, I dig public radio AND country music. But it was a piece of shit.

No matter, because before the feature started there was the trailer for THE NEW WOODY ALLEN MOVIE!!!

It’s a comedy, it stars him and Scar-Jo and it’s called Scoop. So

Of all the films starring Woody Allen I find this is the one in which I relate to him the most.

In the beginning he's watching Casablanca by himself in a movie theatre. They le the scene play out. It's the scene with Bogey, Sgt Reneau, Victor Lazlow and Ilsa when there's the plane and Bogey finally gives them the letters of transit before ( Read more... )

Did I ever tell you how Natalie Portman bothers me? I don't know what is. She just seems so over-indulged. But maybe it's just that the films she acts in are indulgences - usually of the monetary kind. Garden State was a vanity project, the Star Wars prequels are total cash cows, even when our beloved Woody Allen casted her in Everyone Says I ( Read more... )

A tightly structured, morality-drama in the best possible way. Very dark as well. Crimes and Misdemeanors at least had a comic-relief element to it, Match Point is purely sober, calculated, and serious.

It got me thinking about another high-society drama, Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares (2003) which laments the end of intelligence. But ( Read more... )