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...little sailboat he and his brother Ian (Ewan McGregor) buy with his winnings. It is also believable that these working-class lads would not know much about the lady after whom the speedy canine was named - mythology's great purveyor of doomy portents. It is, finally, appropriate for Woody Allen to find the title for his movie in this classical allusion. For the brothers are about to embark on a sea of troubles that even the Ancient Greek's grim prognosticator might have hesitated to conjure...
...ideas Allen likes to keep circling back upon is the heavily ironic notion that it is perfectly possible - literally - to get away with murder, totally unpunished, in the godless and amoral modern world. It is the theme of two of his best films, Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point, and it is a central element in this movie. Like the protagonists of those earlier films, the brothers are not inherently evil people. They're just rather careless ones. Or perhaps one should say ungrounded. Terry is hard-working mechanic, rather decent at heart, but afflicted with addictions to gambling...
...brilliant at portraying neurotics of all kinds. But the multitalented director, whose new movie is Cassandra's Dream, swears he's actually quite normal. Woody Allen will now take your questions
When did you notice that your films had become a pop-culture phenomenon-like "That's such Woody Allen dialogue."? -Brian O'Keeffe, SeattleI've been making films since 1967, and I've never felt I've influenced anybody in any way. People make films like Scorsese makes them, like Spielberg makes them, like Stanley Kubrick made them. I never see young people that I've influenced either as a personality or as a filmmaker...
...that Woody Allen just gets better and better looking the older he gets? -Sheila Levine, Seemy Valley, CaliforniaWell it's nice of her to say that. I probably started off very bad when I was younger. Anything that happens is registered as an improvement. That's the only thing I can think of. It's great. I've just been lucky that I haven't yet fallen apart. But it will happen...