A24 4,338 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Thank you for Manhattan. https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/09/17/woody-allen-announces-his-retirement-from-filmmaking-after-72-years/ Once and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindylover1969 32 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,534 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Farewell, to a film-making genius. Whatever one says about his private life, he has left an indelible mark upon cinema, and has been influential in shaping 20th century popular culture. He has given the film-going public a veritable plethora of genuinely brilliant, and classic, films. I wish him well, in his retirement. A24 and Disco Stu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 605 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 He can do whatever he likes, but I'll be sad if he actually retires. However the WoodyAllenPages makes a good point that he has talked about this often in interviews. Disco Stu and Yavar Moradi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 He’s one of my 5 favorite filmmakers, but he also has mostly been making really bad movies for 20 years, so really I don’t care either way. His amazing run from the 70s to the mid-90s with some of my favorite movies ever made will always be there for me to luxuriate in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,368 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Woody Allen Says He Has ‘No Intention of Retiring’ (Variety) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Typical press mis-quoting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Isn't he more or less canceled, anyway? Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Only by the ignorant or malicious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 There's no shortage of them, and their arm has a long reach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 He’s been releasing a movie every year or two since 1966 - people have had plenty of time over the last few decades to ditch Woody if they wanted to, and some have and some haven’t. I’m in the former group, but it’s not exactly a sacrifice for me because I’ve only really liked one of his movies that I’ve seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted September 19, 2022 Author Share Posted September 19, 2022 12 hours ago, mstrox said: I’ve only really liked one of his movies that I’ve seen. Probably the one I dislike. Something to do with Paris, am I right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 That would be the one, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Every single movie he made between 1973 and 1994 I could watch compulsively, they're all just so good. From '95 on it gets more spotty: a few very good movies sprinkled among a mix of mediocrities and outright stinkers. It was actually a bit shocking to watch a movie like Cafe Society, with its embarrassingly amateurish script and catatonic performances, and think it was the same writer/director that created masterpieces like Radio Days, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Purple Rose of Cairo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,368 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Serious question I don't know the answer to: How many people have actually directed 50 or more feature length films? It's gotta be extremely rare company? And no jokes about porn films, serious answers only! Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, Jay said: Serious question I don't know the answer to: How many people have actually directed 50 or more feature length films? It's gotta be extremely rare company? And no jokes about porn films, serious answers only! There should probably be a post 1950 stipulation. In the Hollywood studio system days, it's not super uncommon to find a director like John Ford, who directed more than 100 movies from the 1910s to the 1960s. Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,368 Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Woah, that's a lot of feature-length films! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 7 hours ago, Disco Stu said: Every single movie he made between 1973 and 1994 I could watch compulsively, they're all just so good. From '95 on it gets more spotty: a few very good movies sprinkled among a mix of mediocrities and outright stinkers. It was actually a bit shocking to watch a movie like Cafe Society, with its embarrassingly amateurish script and catatonic performances, and think it was the same writer/director that created masterpieces like Radio Days, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Purple Rose of Cairo. I have a fondness for his late 90s early 00s fare. I discovered his films during that era. Lot of them are underrated to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 4 minutes ago, Koray Savas said: I have a fondness for his late 90s early 00s fare. I discovered his films during that era. Lot of them are underrated to me! Sweet and Lowdown and Small Time Crooks are definitely among the good ones! I do have a soft spot for Jade Scorpion, not great by any means but solid jokes and fun tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,483 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 I hate all this guy is and what he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 16 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: Sweet and Lowdown and Small Time Crooks are definitely among the good ones! I do have a soft spot for Jade Scorpion, not great by any means but solid jokes and fun tone. I love Jade Scorpion. Melinda And Melinda as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted September 20, 2022 Author Share Posted September 20, 2022 Not retiring? Why did Woody have to kill my wonderful salute thread?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-8 3,478 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Farewell to cinema. Welcome to internet-based pay-TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 I mostly found his movies overrated. Movies that were considered "brillant" by critics were more or less "nice" or ok in my eyes. But "Bullets over Broadway" is one of my favourite comedies. And "Love and Death" is hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted September 20, 2022 Author Share Posted September 20, 2022 Critcs tend to say Manhattan and Annie Hall are his masterpieces (or at least his best movies) and, yeah, I agree. Still, Manhattan all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 54 minutes ago, AC1 said: Critcs tend to say Manhattan and Annie Hall are his masterpieces (or at least his best movies) and, yeah, I agree. Still, Manhattan all the way. Interesting. I think, both I haven't seen. But I have seen so many of his movies. I always thought, more than it is worth. The one I couldn't finish was "Zelig". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Honestly, Annie Hall is not among my favorites, but it is great. For me, the run of Purple Rose of Cairo-Hannah and Her Sisters-Radio Days-Another Woman-Crimes and Misdemeanors is just an all-time run of classic films (with September being the "ok but not great" fly in the ointment). Woody in the 80s was just on fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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