Posts tagged woody allen
the faux bohemian
Hey let's watch Annie Hall, friends
There’s an old joke: uh, two elderly women are at a Catskills mountain resort, and one of ‘em says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know, and such small portions.”
I think I’m going to need to watch some Woody Allen this weekend.
(Source: peregrinning)
Woody Allen's movies: What I learned from watching every single one. - By Juliet Lapidos - Slate Magazine
This article, man! This is extremely timely.
Like Ian Fleming and P.G. Wodehouse, Woody Allen returns compulsively to the same creative ground. In Allen’s case, it’s ground trod by anxious, well-to-do white people, who swap partners and drop cultural references in an empty, godless universe.
In the past year, I’ve watched:
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
- Play It Again, Sam
- Sleeper
- Annie Hall
- Manhattan
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Manhattan Murder Mystery
I thought I was doing well, but that’s 7/40. At this rate, I’ll never be a nebbish, adulterous intellectual with an overwhelming fear of mortality and love for Dixieland jazz!
I long for the days when ads featuring a nebbish intellectual Jewish man could sell liquor.
1966 Smirnoff ad, featuring Woody Allen.
Ah…the ads of yore.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
