Comments on: Dead Means Very http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/dead-means-very/ David Cairns' wilfully eccentric film blog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:49:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/dead-means-very/#comment-1934 dcairns Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:07:36 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=395#comment-1934 Yes, he was underrated, I feel. Still, a substantial run. Yes, he was underrated, I feel. Still, a substantial run.

]]> By: djp http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/dead-means-very/#comment-1933 djp Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:55:11 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=395#comment-1933 Poor old Brian Wilde... Regards, djp Poor old Brian Wilde…

Regards,

djp

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/dead-means-very/#comment-1924 dcairns Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:13:47 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=395#comment-1924 It does feel habitual rather than anything else. His European jaunts look to have been motivated by funding opportunities rather than anything else -- he once swore never to film outside NYC. It does feel habitual rather than anything else. His European jaunts look to have been motivated by funding opportunities rather than anything else — he once swore never to film outside NYC.

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/dead-means-very/#comment-1923 David Ehrenstein Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:59:11 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=395#comment-1923 Now there's no form to return to. There's nothing. Allen has turned mise en scene into Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. He makes films because he makes films. Not that he has anything at all to say (he doesn't), it's just an activty that gets him through the year. His only audience is casting agents who want a "Woody" on their client's list. Now there’s no form to return to. There’s nothing. Allen has turned mise en scene into Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. He makes films because he makes films. Not that he has anything at all to say (he doesn’t), it’s just an activty that gets him through the year. His only audience is casting agents who want a “Woody” on their client’s list.

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/dead-means-very/#comment-1916 dcairns Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:32:57 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=395#comment-1916 Stockpile the GOOD ones! I'd like to remember him at his best. Allen will probably be appreciated more after he's gone, and actually somebody might find more positive things to say about his recent work. But I'm a little reluctant to dive into it, myself. Just looked at his filmography again -- for some reason I stopped going to his movies after Bullets Over Broadway, which is a GOOD one. I did see Deconstructing Harry and liked that up to a point. But Sweet and Lowdown didn't tempt me, for some reason (Penn? the La Strada borrowings?) And I haven't seen a whole one since, but the bits I saw of Celebrity, Small Time Crooks, Jade Scorpion, did not appeal... it doesn't help that someone, somewhere, wil always call the newest one a "return to form". Stockpile the GOOD ones! I’d like to remember him at his best. Allen will probably be appreciated more after he’s gone, and actually somebody might find more positive things to say about his recent work. But I’m a little reluctant to dive into it, myself.

Just looked at his filmography again — for some reason I stopped going to his movies after Bullets Over Broadway, which is a GOOD one. I did see Deconstructing Harry and liked that up to a point. But Sweet and Lowdown didn’t tempt me, for some reason (Penn? the La Strada borrowings?) And I haven’t seen a whole one since, but the bits I saw of Celebrity, Small Time Crooks, Jade Scorpion, did not appeal… it doesn’t help that someone, somewhere, wil always call the newest one a “return to form”.

]]> By: David K http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/dead-means-very/#comment-1909 David K Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:05:29 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=395#comment-1909 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is on BBC One Sunday night at 9p.m. GMT for those who can get it. I guess we have to watch it now. In a sad/comic display of efficiency, if you hit the i button on your Sky remote this morning, the BBC had already changed the blurb from a film by Anthony Minghella to a film by the late Anthony M. A Sky Movies channel was showing Ripley tonight, and they had remarkably done the same, as though it mattered. Still 54 years old. In the words of Eric Cartman: 'Lame'. I'm stockpiling Woody Allen DVDs for the day I get the shitty news of his passing. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is on BBC One Sunday night at 9p.m. GMT for those who can get it.
I guess we have to watch it now. In a sad/comic display of efficiency, if you hit the i button on your Sky remote this morning, the BBC had already changed the blurb from a film by Anthony Minghella to a film by the late Anthony M.
A Sky Movies channel was showing Ripley tonight, and they had remarkably done the same, as though it mattered.
Still 54 years old. In the words of Eric Cartman: ‘Lame’.
I’m stockpiling Woody Allen DVDs for the day I get the shitty news of his passing.

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