Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guarantee the outcome," he says on the set. "I'm going to prove that comedians don't make great actors." The lovable shlemiel of Sleeper and other banana-peel epics is playing love scenes without his usual co-star and onetime roommate Diane Keaton. "We're just very very good friends," insists Allen. "We haven't been, uh, that way for years." Allen is even managing without his familiar props. "There is nothing big in the film," he says with a touch of regret. "No big bananas or big breasts...
...pictures in which the dynamic duo were ripped out of their natural Edwardian environment and improbably set to chasing Nazi spies during World War II-they never abandoned the expert standards they set in this, the first of their pairings, now re-released along with the great Buster Keaton silent Sherlock Jr. and an oddly touching interview with Conan Doyle...
...Napoleon's life, a tiresome case of mistaken identities is thrown in, and Boris finally trails off behind the Angel of Death in a flap-happy parody of The Seventh Seal. Where Allen shines is not in slapstick situations but in soliloquies and banter duets. He and Sonia (Diane Keaton), an intellectual Russian nymph, often find themselves grappling with...
...Keaton: If there is no God, life has no meaning...
...ALLEN'S comic accomplice, Diane Keaton is a lot closer to earning her cinematic stripes than Peter Bogdanovich's sidekick. Cybill Shepherd, but Keaton's performance also suffers because she's fashioned in her director's image. When she turns obsessively to the camera to suggest, "May be we could have a family. Maybe not our own; we could rent one," you'd swear she could be Allen with a wig and a nose job. But she lacks the timing of a really good comedian. When she's warned on her first husband's deathbed to remember that "Life goes...