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...Radcliffe women (9-2) also took advantage of the favorable conditions Saturday morning and won the Allen-DeWolfe Cup for the sixth straight year, closing out its most successful dual season in a decade...
Another benefit of such fast pacing is that Allen can also use more characters than the average comedy and develop them equally - even though it's frothy, this is still situational comedy, far more sophisticated than virtually any other comedy that hits the big screens nowadays. Allen always manages to avoid carboard characters - even when they actually are one note jokes. Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite, Jennifer Tilly in Bullets Over Broadway, and now Elaine May as Frenchy's cousin in Small Time Crooks - the bumbling, doltish female in these films does little more than spout inane observations, but they...
...Because Allen can basically secure any actor he wants for a part, he virtually writes characters with those actors in mind. That's why his ensemble casts consistently produce the best performances every year. In _Small Time Crooks_, Allen actually gives up most of the screen time to Tracy Ullman who easily might score an Oscar nomination (in the slot usually held for one of Woody's actors) next March; Ullman's Frenchy has the unenviable task of eliciting the audience's empathy even though we know exactly where the character is headed. But Ullman never lets her characer degenerate...
...this Tuesday and if you can score a ticket, it'll be the place to be. He'll be screening Small Time Crooks and you can ask him questions afterwards. If you're a Woody fan, you'll probably adore Small Time Crooks - it's 100%, unabashedly indulgent Woody Allen. If you're new to the Allen canon, Small Time Crooks is actually a good place to start. From the first frame you'll realize how much you've been missing - and how banal every other type of comedy seems in comparison...
Every actor salivates at the thought of working with Woody Allen. For the past thirty five years, Allen has been the one force of consistency in a medium that is starting to lend itself to more and more adulterated studio projects each year. But every twelve months, we get a movie that's 100% Woody-his writing, his directing, his singular vision. There's no question that Woody Allen is a comic genius, the type of artist that we take for granted because he is so prolific. Woody, of course, disagrees. His modesty isn't an act. He genuinely believes...