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Top 15 Performances in a Woody Allen Film

10 July 2009 1:53 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Originally Posted in Creative Loafing [1] Tampa. Very few filmmakers are known for their casting power. Woody Allen [2] may be one of the best. He is always great at getting Hollywood's biggest movie stars and the latest indie up and comers into his films (and with perfect timing). He worked with Sally Hawkins [3] and Samantha Morton [4] right when they were about to hit it big. His latest, Whatever Works [5], has some of the most coveted actors around (Evan Rachel Wood [6], Larry David [7], and Patricia Clarkson [8]). Here are my 15 favorite performances in a Woody Allen film: 15) Rebecca Hall [9] - Vicky Cristina Barcelona [10] (2008) Hall is reminiscent of Kate Winslet [11] in that she can convey multiple emotions with astounding subtlety. Many consider Vicky to be the first female Woody Allen character. On paper maybe, but Hall turns the role into so much more, perfectly relating the character's fears and her longing to make life exciting and meaningful. »

- Anthony Nicholas

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Knowing It All

17 June 2009 7:22 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Woody Allen has returned to New York, but does New York want him back? For the excruciating "Whatever Works," his first Gotham-set movie since 2004's "Melinda and Melinda," Allen dusted off a script written around the time of "Annie Hall," intended as a vehicle for Zero Mostel, who died a few months after that film was released in 1977. The replacement mouthpiece for Allen's borscht-y misanthropy is Larry David, who, playing Boris Yellnikoff, frequently breaks the fourth wall, to hector, lecture and obsess. "This is not a feel-good movie," Boris, addressing the camera, pontificates at the outset. Rather, it is a numbing movie, filled with creaky, wheezy shtick about sex, politics, religion and the city that even the Catskill comics in "Broadway Danny Rose" would have a hard time cracking a smile at.

Boris, who once tried to kill himself during an argument with his psychotherapist wife by throwing himself out of their Beekman Place apartment, »

- Melissa Anderson

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The Best Films You’Ve Never Seen – James Napoli’s rental of the week -- This week: Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

16 May 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Written by James Napoli This Week: Broadway Danny Rose (1984) – Woody Allen’s marvelous tribute to everything he has ever liked reminds us of what we like about him. You might think a Woody Allen film is an unlikely pick for a movie you’re supposed to never have seen. Surely, one of the most prolific filmmakers of his generation doesn’t belong in a column about forgotten masterpieces. Maybe so. But it’s well-known that the Wood-man’s movies do not traditionally set the box office on fire, and, in fact, a lot of his post-Manhattan 1980’s work could fall under the heading of underappreciated gems, like Another Woman, Alice, Zelig and The Purple Rose of Cairo. It’s hard to argue against Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors being Allen’s most accomplished works of that decade, but many of the “smaller” titles ... »

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May Flowers, Kathleen Turner

12 May 2009 8:24 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

May Flowers, weeknights @ 11:00

Kathleen Turner as Joan Wilder. She's a hopeless... no, a hopeful romantic. What a slam dunk star turn that was. And how galling that Romancing the Stone didn't net her an Oscar nomination. It was deglam and glam in one package. Plus it was super fun and Oscar should remember to have fun more often. Fun movies sometimes have more staying power than dutiful prestige pics. Not all the time but why eliminate them because they aren't serious? Screwball comedies were as far from serious as it gets and Oscar didn't hate those.

The Oscar Nominees that year were four previous winners and one breakthrough performer (Judy Davis)

Judy Davis, A Passage to IndiaSally Field, Places in the Heart (winner)

Jessica Lange, CountryVanessa Redgrave, The Bostonians

Sissy Spacek, The River

If I had been giving out my awards back then, the Best Actress list would not have been 60% farm wives. »

- NATHANIEL R

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Whatever Works: One Loves It, One Hates It!

22 April 2009 9:59 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Vanity Fair’s Frank Digiacomo and Bruce Handy are both Manhattan-dwelling movie buffs with long histories of writing about Hollywood. What could they have to disagree about when it comes to the latest Woody Allen movie? As it turns out, plenty. From: Frank Digiacomo To: Bruce Handy Subject: Whatever Works Hey, Bruce. I know you’re a big Woody Allen fan and was wondering if you saw his new picture Whatever Works? It’s the first Allen picture that has really resonated with me in a long time. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy Vicky Cristina Barcelona or Match Point, it’s that the hallmarks of Allen’s work that first appealed to me in Take The Money and Run, Annie Hall, and Broadway Danny Rose have not been as prevalent in his more recent films. For one thing, I go to see his movies hoping to laugh my ass off, »

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