Friday, December 16, 2005
THE WOODMAN
Todays NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Woody Allen's
Ebert thinks that it is his best film and I think that I agree with him.
The whole enterprise is serious fun. Allen has tamed himself down for this one and all the principals are in their finest fettle.
I am a lifer on Woody. We used to go and see him at the Paris Cinema as soon as his annual film was out. There would be long lines. We would be among the first to see the film and then discuss it at length.
A lot of people are disappointed at his later work but he ages and so does his work. It is not always fun to see his personal shit displayed so obviously. On the other hand, we all have something like it going.
It was great to see this one again. It has been twenty years and it still seems so fresh and new.
There are neat tricks in the film. Maureen O'Sullivan plays Mia Farrow's mother. There is a panoply of cameos.
Diane Weist. Just look at the cast.
There are whole segments I want to see again. The walk through the television studio backstage where Allen is a producer of 'a show' is organized mayhem. A hundred people all along the walk? All famous B players.
It is a sure 5 out of Netflix5.
