"Repetitious and aimless as to seem to beg for oblivion", said John Simon of this 1977 Woody Allen film
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Cosmopolis Teaser Seismically Shifts Critics Perceptions About ...  Mar 26, 2012 ... Critics, film outlets, and a multitude of industry commentators previously ... John Simon's astonishing rant in 1977  With Annie Hall, Woody Allen has truly ... sprawling, repetitious, and aimless as to seem to beg for oblivion. ... Stuart Barr from Screenjabber said, Oh wow, Cosmopolis looks like its going to...
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Annie Hall - Ramblin' with Roger  Sep 24, 2008 ... *Alvy Singer, Woody Allen's character in the movie, HATES to go to a ... *Film critic John Simon said about it: Repetitious and aimless as to...
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Detail view of Movies Page - American Film Institute  Premiere Information: Filmex screening: 27 Mar 1977; Los Angeles opening: 20 Apr ... Annie reminds him of how he used to be hot for Allison, but says that his ardor ..... As common for Woody Allen films, the production was somewhat secretive, ... repetitious, and aimless as to seem to beg for oblivion," wrote John Simon in...
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Annie Hall: 1977 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 30, 2014 ... FILM CRITICISM $400: Repetitious and aimless as to seem to beg for oblivion, said John Simon of this 1977 Woody Allen film
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Annie Hall - Wikipedia  Annie Hall is a 1977 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a ..... According to Allen, "I didn't sit down with Marshall Brickman and say, 'We're ..... the hard-to-please critic John Simon called the film "unfunny comedy, poor ... so shapeless, sprawling, repetitious, and aimless as to seem to beg for oblivion.
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People You Forgot Were in Woody Allen Films The Jimbo List  Nov 18, 2011 ... When you stop and examine the films of Woody Allen, you realize that at ... Berle played himself in 1984's Broadway Danny Rose, which is one of ... Woody is a low-rent talent agent who handles a club singer with a shot at...
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Henry Jenkins - MIT  Woody Allen stammers the opening lines: "Chapter One. ... yet "Rhapsody in Blue" also uses jarring bursts of percussion, unanticipated fanfares, and .... construct stories to explain and justify their occupation of geographic spaces, to describe .... Lane builds his contemporary silent comedy, in the tradition of Chaplin, around...
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Annie Hall - Wikipedia  Annie Hall is a 1977 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a .... The last meeting for them is a wistful coda on New York's Upper West Side, when ... The draft that Allen presented to the film's editor, Ralph Rosenblum, ..... the film was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its...
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Ranked: All 50 Woody Allen Films From Worst to Best - MTV  Jul 23, 2013 ... Woody Allen has directed fewer than 50 films, but he's been involved with many more. ... are times when a little conventional coverage may, yes, help tighten the scene. .... Andrei Tarkovsky had to reshoot "Stalker" because of a film lab ... Despite the Shakespearean title, there's more in common here with...
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Paul Simon - Wikipedia  Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and actor. .... We're making a movie here! .... In 1980 he released One-Trick Pony, his debut album with Warner Bros. ..... Tony Lacey, a supporting character, in the 1977 Woody Allen feature film .... Annie Hall, 1977, Actor, Tony Lacey.
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Annie Hall (1977) - Rotten Tomatoes  Critic Consensus: Filled with poignant performances and devastating humor, Annie Hall represents a quantum leap for Woody Allen and remains an American...
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jeopardy/1084_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SELLERS' BEST | Woody Allen wrote this '60s film featuring Sellers as a lecherous psychoanalyst | What's New Pussycat? right: Wrong: Triple Stumper.
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FILM VIEW - NEW YORK CITY'S PROBLEMS ARE IN THE PICTURE ...  Jul 2, 1989 ... Everyone in ''Ghostbusters II'' feels overworked, underpaid, put upon, ready ... recognized that it is the stuff of comedy as well as of melodrama. ... In the initial sequence of ''Manhattan,'' Woody Allen, the poet ... us the opening bars of ''Rhapsody in Blue'' accompanied by a couple of aerial shots of the city.
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Woody Allen: Best to worst list  Jul 3, 2012 ... Woody Allen once said that his films are like novels, which have a form of a film. ... Alvy Singer: I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. .... Manhattan is a film about choices between people, choices that .... Bananas. People who added this item 492 Average listal rating (340 ratings)...
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Play It Again, Sam - TCM.com  A recent divorce gets romantic advice from the ghost of Humphrey Bogart. ... Allan Felix, Allen's character in this movie, is a film writer whose wife has left him ... relationships with women, he turns to a fantasy Bogart for advice and support. ... Saturday Review found the actor "never so droll or so touching under his own...
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How Sammy still runs - Page 3 - latimes  Jun 5, 2005 ... took aim at Hollywood ambition run amok. ... If you accept this benign interpretation that most Sammy Glicks are overachievers, not necessarily...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors - Wikipedia  Crimes and Misdemeanors is a 1989 American existential comedy-drama film written, directed by and co-starring Woody Allen, alongside Martin Landau, Mia...
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Shadows and Fog - Wikipedia  Shadows and Fog is a 1991 American black-and-white comedy thriller film directed by Woody Allen and based on his one-act play Death. It stars Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Madonna, and ... Kleinman (Allen) is awakened from a deep sleep by a vigilante mob. They claim .... What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)...
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Diane Keaton's Woody Allen affair was blighted by bulimia: Doomed ...  Nov 16, 2011 ... According to Diane Keaton, Woody Allen always said she wouldn't know a ... Did he notice back then how often she seemed distracted? .... the classics Sleeper, Love And Death, Annie Hall and Manhattan ... of his mouth gave me the rush of a first-time love, over and over again. It wasn't down to the script.
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Antagony & Ecstasy: TEN FOR MONDAY: WOODY ALLEN  Jun 22, 2009 ... Woody Allen's 38th feature film as a director, Whatever Works, ... But it works terrifically anyway, showcasing Allen at his most experimental and drawing a crisp line in the sand ... By the time that Allen and Diane Keaton (making her first ... sentence: "Chapter 1: He adored New York City. He idolized it all out...
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25 great movie comedies that run for 90 minutes or less | Den of Geek  Mar 4, 2016 ... Fun fact, the film was partly inspired by a discussion Chaplin had with Gandhi. ... Is Woody Allen the master of the comedy under 90 minutes? .... Woody Allen, 1975) ... wonderful creative partnership with Diane Keaton), Allen's mid 70s ... on a satire of Russian literature, with a War And Peace like tale of a...