Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loved ones, he makes the film look like a series of set pieces. There is no structure and no pacing. More awkward still. Reynolds has miscast himself. Sonny seems to be a Jewish neurotic, but Reynolds' many talents do not include an ability to impersonate Woody Allen...
...narrative movies; indeed, at any given moment, it is impossible to decipher what is going on in FM or to identify the characters onscreen. It is also quite difficult to make out what anyone is saying. In what must be the most innovative use of sound since Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Alonzo has decreed that much of the movie's crucial dialogue be drowned out by either rock music or random background noise. Perhaps lip readers will be able to judge the merits of FM's actors, who include Martin Mull...
...Upstart). His new book is difficult to accept as either fact or fiction. First, there are the project's origins, described in Read's introduction: "Toward the end of April, 1976, a tall, well-dressed South African walked into the offices of the London publishers W.H. Allen and Co. and offered to sell them the confessions of the celebrated Great Train Robbers ... Reluctant to sign up the thieves without an author to write their story, the publishers invited me to come to London and discuss the project with all concerned." Out of the meeting, attended by seven...
...film's principal characters are a typical assortment of high school types. In their effort to meet the Beatles, the kids hijack cars and Plaza elevators; they defy parents, cops and gravity. The best scenes belong to the cast's two most talented actors, Nancy Allen (as the most demure of the girls) and Eddie Deezen (as a manic Ringo fetishist). In one delicious bit, Allen actually sneaks into the Beatles' suite, where she proceeds to have riotously raunchy encounters with her heroes' musical instruments and toilet articles...
Annie Hall. This won this year's Oscar for Best Picture, but don't hold that against it. It's Woody Allen's warmest, deepest, and funniest motion-picture, and better than that, it's a tantalizing promise of more to come from a brilliant writer/director. The story of Woody and Diane. Alvy and Annie, two absurd, lonely people who cling to each other because they're afraid no one else will really see how special they are. Some classic sequences: Keaton stuttering, giggling, gesticulating outside an indoor tennis stadium, slapping herself in frustration, dithering enchantingly; Allen grimacing...