Word: farrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hannah and Her Sisters is old-fashioned in another sense: its plot has the elegant geometry of a Philip Barry play. Two triangles converge at a common point: Hannah (Mia Farrow), who has two sisters, Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey), and has been married twice, first to Mickey (Woody Allen) and now to Elliot (Michael Caine). Eventually, each sister has an affair with one of Hannah's men. Elliot begins the roundelay by lurching into a mad pash for the beautiful, cheerful, lost Lee. Perhaps he is weary of Hannah's competence; she is a kind of live...
...this desperation suggests a certain pathos, but little can match the pathetic, yet typically wry, desperation of Woody Allen's THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (Harvard Square, Sunday). Superficially, Mia Farrow sees her movie idol step off the screen, but the Safari suit-clad hero enters not reality, but the world of movie-madness, the realm of the film addict who knows reality too well to want to face it. "You're a wonderful person," Farrow tells her dream man when he arrives in the flesh. "You're fictional, but nobody's perfect...
...Allen, 49, drop hints about his forthcoming movies, perhaps having learned that skillfully shunning publicity actually produces more of it. But the writer-director last week was willing to talk, a little, about his next film, Hannah and Her Sisters, in which he stars with his longtime love, Mia Farrow, 40, as Hannah and Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest as the sisters. The plot is still Allen's deep secret, but he admits to having a continuing fascination with Farrows. "For years, Mia's family has been lucky for me," he said. "One of her sisters (Tisa) was in Manhattan...
...film that should be an assignment for VES 194. "Romantic Cinema," is Woody Allen's newest effort, The Purple Rose of Cairo (Harvard Square). It's your type of movie. Mother, with Mia Farrow laboring in squalor to keep herself and her brutish husband (Danny Aiello) alive, and Jeff Daniels swooping down off the screen to save her. Fred Astaire even makes a brief appearance...
Allen is already at work on his next movie, a "serious comedy" called Hannah and Her Sisters, starring himself and Farrow, his companion of four years. Having made 13 films in the past 15 years, he likes being busy. His directorial model is not the legendary raging egomaniac but the quiet craftsman who prides himself on his productivity. "I don't want to get into that commercial film cycle that says that every time a film comes out it has to be hailed as an event," he says. "All the foreign filmmakers I loved, including Bergman, just turned out their...