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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Mia Farrow,
Dianne Wiest,
Mike Starr,
Paul Herman,
Don Pardo
Director:
Woody Allen
Woody Allen's gentlest and most unassuming movie, Radio Days isn't so much a story as a series of anecdotes loosely linked together by a voice-over spoken by the director. The film is strongly autobiographical in tone, presenting the memories of a young lad Joe (clearly a stand-in for Allen himself) growing up in a working-class Jewish family in the seafront Brooklyn suburb of Rockaway during the late 1930s and early 40s. In this pre-TV era the radio is ubiquitous, a constant accompaniment churning out quiz shows, soap operas, dance music, news flashes and Joe's favourite, the exploits of the Masked Avenger. Given Allen's well-publicised gallery of neuroses, you mi...
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Martin Landau,
Woody Allen,
Bill Bernstein,
Claire Bloom,
Stephanie Roth Haberle
Director:
Woody Allen
Along with Deconstructing Harry which would follow seven years later, this is Woody Allen's most sombre comedy-drama, as well as his most ambitious film of the 1980s. Allen weaves together two central stories about very different groups of Manhattanites, linking them through a mutual friend, a rabbi (Sam Waterston) who's going blind. This image is key to the sometimes ponderous, often clever musings on faith, morals, and vision (or lack thereof) that obsess his deeply troubled and unhappy characters. At its centre, the film explores people who, through lack of religious conviction or arrogance, rationalise their awful, selfish acts by presuming that God couldn't po...
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Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Owen Wilson,
Rachel McAdams,
Marion Cotillard,
Kathy Bates,
Carla Bruni
Director:
Woody Allen
Paris is a city that lends itself to daydreaming, to walking the streets and imagining all sorts of magic, a quality that Woody Allen understands perfectly. Midnight in Paris is Allen's charming reverie about just that quality, with a screenwriter hero named Gil (Owen Wilson) who strolls the lanes of Paris with his head in the clouds and walks right into his own best fantasy. Gil is there with his materialistic fiancée (Rachel McAdams) and her unpleasant parents, taking a break from his financially rewarding but spiritually unfulfilling Hollywood career--and he can't stop thinking that all he wants to do is quit the movies, move to Paris, and write that...
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Woody Allen,
Diane Keaton,
Tony Roberts,
Carol Kane,
Paul Simon
Director:
Woody Allen
Annie Hall is one of the truest, most bittersweet romances on film. In it, Allen plays a thinly disguised version of himself: Alvy Singer, a successful--if neurotic--television comedian living in Manhattan. Annie (the wholesomely luminous Dianne Keaton) is a Midwestern transplant who dabbles in photography and sings in small clubs. When the two meet, the sparks are immediate--if repressed. Alone in her apartment for the first time, Alvy and Annie navigate a minefield of self-conscious "is-this-person-someone-I'd-want-to-get-involved-with?" conversation. As they speak, subtitles flash their unspoken thoughts: the likes of "I'm not smart enough for him" and "I sound ...
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Mia Farrow,
Dianne Wiest,
Michael Caine,
Barbara Hershey,
Woody Allen
Director:
Woody Allen
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Woody Allen,
Mia Farrow,
Sydney Pollack,
Judy Davis,
Juliette Lewis
Director:
Woody Allen
In Husbands and Wives, another typical Woody Allen exploration of relationships between screwed-up New Yorkers, the drama centres on two married couples who have been close friends for years. When Jack and Sally (Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis) announce they're breaking up, it exposes the cracks in the relationship between Gabe and Judy (Allen and Mia Farrow). The shenanigans that result are touching, funny and horribly true to life. Jack finds himself a cliché trophy blonde, Sam--an aerobics instructor--and thinks he's got it made until she expounds the eternal truths of astrology to his friends, humiliating him in the process; Gabe, meanwhile, finds himself incre...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Mia Farrow,
Jeff Daniels,
Danny Aiello,
Irving Metzman,
Stephanie Farrow
Director:
Woody Allen
"I've just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything." So says Cecilia (Mia Farrow), the central figure in Woody Allen's lyrically humorous Purple Rose of Cairo. The era is the Great Depression, and she is the bullied wife who finds escape in romantic movies, falling in love with the explorer hero, Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels), of the eponymous film. So far, nothing remarkable. But Allen has Baxter spot her in the audience, fall in love with her, and desert the picture, much to the irritation of the other characters. The surreal quality of the situation develops further when Gil Shepherd--the actor who played Baxter (Daniels again)--seeks o...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Woody Allen,
Diane Keaton,
Mariel Hemingway,
Michael Murphy,
Meryl Streep
Director:
Woody Allen
Manhattan, Woody Allen's follow-up to Oscar-winning Annie Hall, is a film of many distinctions: its glorious all-Gershwin score, its breathtakingly elegant black-and-white, widescreen cinematography by Gordon Willis (best-known for shooting the Godfather movies); its deeply shaded performances; its witty screenplay that marked a new level in Allen's artistic maturity; and its catalogue of Things that Make Life Worth Living. Allen's "Rhapsody in Gray" concerns, as his own character puts it, "people in Manhattan who are constantly creating these real, unnecessary, neurotic problems for themselves, because it keeps them from dealing with more insoluble, ...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Woody Allen,
Mia Farrow,
Patrick Horgan,
John Buckwalter,
Marvin Chatinover
Director:
Woody Allen
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Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Larry David,
Adam Brooks,
Evan Rachel Wood,
Patricia Clarkson
Director:
Woody Allen
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