The Delux WOODY ALLEN appreciation thread

[Slick Nick]

I can't get enough of the little chap at the moment - he rarely makes outright bad films and has a fine body of work (the last two words very important in that sentence).

So what are your favourite films of his, and what sort era? 70s, 80s or 90s? With Diane Keaton or Mia Farrow? The latter ones set in London with randoms?

Mine are:

Annie Hall - funniest film I've seen
Manhattan - love the whole aura of it
Crimes and Misdemeanours - one of the darkest films of his
Bullets Over Broadway - even though the characters are quite annoying even for him

[Blu Titan]

Sleeper and Bananas are my favorites .

[Yankees0222]

He is definitely one of my favorite directors. I prefer his Diane Keaton period for sure.

- Annie Hall is among my top 5 favorite movies of all time. It has to be one of the smartest romantic comedies ever made.

- Sleeper..... I don't usually go for slapstick but this movie always cracks me up. And I think everyone should own an orgasmatron

- Vickie Cristina Barcelona is my favorite of the most recent Allen movies.

I also really enjoy Crimes and Misdemeanors

[octagon]

What's Up Tiger Lily? is absolutely hilarious.

Manhattan Murder Mystery is just as funny but in a much drier way. (This one also kind of turned me around on Alan Alda - I still don't really care for him but at the very least I hate him a lot less because of this).

Crimes and Misdemeanors might be his best though. Excellent all the way through.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by octagon

What's Up Tiger Lily? is absolutely hilarious

Take the Money and Run, though much maligned, is probably even closer to his original looney non-sequitir New Yorker written pieces than Bananas , Zelig, New York Stories or Purple Rose of Cairo.
So is Love and Death, although Woody confessed that one was intentionally trying to homage 40's Road-era Bob Hope.

Then we got that whole 80's phase where he thought we didn't notice he was baldface-plagiarizing specific Bergman and Fellini films (remember when we thought "Smiles of A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" was supposed to be a version of Shakespeare?...Yeah, him and "Lion King". )
Case in point, used to think Radio Days was his one good "sane", sentimental, funny personal movie out of the entire 80's...And then it dawned on me that he was just relocating "Amarcord" to Long Island.

[J. J. Hunsecker]

Here are my favorites, in order:

1. Take the Money and Run
2. Bananas
3. Sleeper
4. Love and Death
5. Annie Hall
6. Zelig
7. Match Point
8. Crimes and Misdemeanors
9. The Purple Rose of Cairo
10. Bullets Over Broadway
11. Husbands and Wives

[Slick Nick]

There is something about his slapstick that is just comedy gold, especially in Play it Again Sam.

I watched Alice recently and that is one of the very very few that I didn't enjoy, and got bored with pretty early on. Not that funny or interesting, and no Woody either.

[blufellas]

I like all most every Woody Allen movie, especially Manhattan Murder Mystery, Annie Hall, and Zelig. But my personal favorite is one he didn't direct, Play It Again Sam, also my favorite comedy of all time.

[Ruemorgue10]

I like the "early, funny ones." My favorites are Sleeper, Love and Death, and Annie Hall.

[Cremildo]

Wonder Wheel, his next pic, opens limited on 12/1 - an unusual date for a film of his.

[jacobsever]

Annie Hall is the only thing I've seen and actually really enjoyed. Most of his stuff is "meh" for me.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

Annie Hall is the only thing I've seen and actually really enjoyed. Most of his stuff is "meh" for me.

Try a double feature of The Purple Rose of Cairo & Broadway Danny Rose. Wonderful films.

Don't judge him on his post-nineties output, which is often more atrocious than not.

[qb2333]

Add me to the I like most of his movies crowd. What a prolific director over so many decades.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (1972)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Annie Hall (1977)
Manhattan (1979)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Radio Days (1987)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

[Rodney-2187]

Midnight in Paris
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Radio Days

[Cremildo]

I absolutely love The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters and Alice. Pretty big fan of Another Woman, Zelig, Radio Days, Cassandra's Dream, Vicky Christina Barcelona, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Match Point and Annie Hall as well.

[UltraMario9]

I've only seen Take The Money And Run and Blue Jasmine, both of which I loved. I've also seen Casino Royale and Fading Gigolo but he didn't direct either of those.

I really want to watch Deconstructing Harry and Midnight in Paris.

[Arch Stanton]

Woody Allen is one of my all time favourites. His films have made huge impressions on me: comically, dramatically, tragically - often all in the space of the same movie.

My favourites would be Annie Hall, Radio Days, Hannah and Her Sisters and The Purple Rose of Cairo.

Looking forward to his new one because I always love his straight dramas (he described Wonder Wheel as "very serious" recently) and Kate Winslet is great. Pretty mad that he's managed to literally make a movie every year for over forty years now.

[imsounoriginal]

Woody's movies rock. I'll be more expressive later.

[Rodney-2187]

Shadows and Fog is another one I like. I pretty much like all of his movies, it's some more than others. His dialogue is always so great.

[LucaNinja7]

I haven't seen his whole catalog so I'm much more familiar with Allen's more recent films (21st century). However, I'm a big fan of his writing style and I think his characters and the situations they find themselves in are often quite clever.

I'd have to say my favorites at the moment are:

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Midnight in Paris
Match Point
To Rome with Love

I'm really looking forward to Wonder Wheel - there's something romantic and idyllic about Coney Island and I hope Allen is able to capture some of that magic on-screen.