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re: Woody Allen reportedly taking a break from filmmaking

Posted on 9/1/18 at 3:11 pm to
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
37962 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 3:11 pm to
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yet Allen can assault and molest people and flee the country


What the frick are you talking about?
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
119977 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 3:15 pm to
Thank god that daughter raper now has a moment to relax.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
37962 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 3:20 pm to
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I don't put a ton of stock in the Oscars but I was glad to see he has only won 4 Oscars. 3 of them being for annie hall. 4 Oscars in your 7,000 films, that tells you something.


It's 50 films and 16 nominations as best writer. More nominations in the category than anyone else.

53 total nominations for his films.
12 wins.
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
83294 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 4:27 pm to
I liked Annie Hall, mostly as period piece of 1970s NY. I couldn’t get into Manhattan. Haven’t seen anything else. his movies look like they’d all be kind of similar.
Posted by Loungefly85
Lafayette
Member since Jul 2016
7930 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 4:44 pm to
It’s a funny bit of irony that his son is the one who brought the whole legitimate #metoo’s shite to light.

I’m sure he’s seen it all growing up in that household.
Posted by DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Member since May 2011
19467 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 6:29 pm to
Is he taking a break from being a child molesting scumbag
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
119977 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 6:32 pm to
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16 nominations as best writer. More nominations in the category than anyone else.



Which is fricking ludicrous and proves Hollywood is a fricking joke. Nominated 10 more times than the next closest. There’s no way that daughter raper deserves that.
Posted by Amadeo
Member since Jan 2004
4883 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 7:13 pm to
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Will probably be taking a long break from life soon too.

Doubt it. His father lived to 100 and his mother to 96.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
154601 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 7:27 pm to
Woody Allen was once a great comedy writer. He wrote for Sid Caesar in his early 20s:



A few years later Allen became a brilliant standup comedian:

Woody Allen - "The Moose"

Eventually Allen moved into movies and made some hilarious features: Take The Money & Run, Bananas, Sleeper, Love and Death. If you haven't seen these, you're missing out on a treat.

Then he won the Oscars for Annie Hall, and his next film, the deadly earnest Interiors, got near-unanimous raves from film critics. And it was over.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
37962 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 8:48 pm to

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And it was over.

Zelig
Hannah and Her Sisters
Radio Days
Midnight in Paris
Blue Jasmine

...all great movies.
Posted by jg8623
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2010
13533 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 8:59 pm to
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but yet Allen can assault and molest people and flee the country and people just pretend it never happened.


I think you’re thinking of Polanski
This post was edited on 9/1/18 at 9:00 pm
Posted by Amadeo
Member since Jan 2004
4883 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 9:03 pm to
quote:

Zelig
quote:

Radio Days

His best work imo.
Posted by jg8623
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2010
13533 posts
Posted on 9/1/18 at 9:03 pm to
quote:

I don't put a ton of stock in the Oscars but I was glad to see he has only won 4 Oscars. 3 of them being for annie hall. 4 Oscars in your 7,000 films, that tells you something.


Only 4? I’m not a Woody Allen fan, but 4 Oscars is a good amount regardless of how many movies you’ve made
Posted by lsuwontonwrap
Member since Aug 2012
34147 posts
Posted on 9/2/18 at 12:35 am to
Not being a dick, but I thought he retired a while back.
Posted by CaptainBrannigan
Good Ole Rocky Top Tennessee
Member since Jan 2010
21644 posts
Posted on 9/2/18 at 4:43 am to
I don't think I've ever seen a Woody Allen film.
Posted by The Godfather
Surrounded by Assholes
Member since Mar 2005
42457 posts
Posted on 9/2/18 at 6:34 am to
He was good in Antz
Posted by West Texas 33
Dillon, TX
Member since Apr 2011
693 posts
Posted on 9/2/18 at 8:32 am to
Most overrated figure in Hollywood.
Posted by CelticDog
Member since Apr 2015
42867 posts
Posted on 9/2/18 at 9:12 am to
Why post if you have no idea about the persons work?


A couple of his films are on critics top 100 all time.

Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
37962 posts
Posted on 9/2/18 at 1:15 pm to
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Why post if you have no idea about the persons work?



He has eight upvotes. He’s the norm on this board. This is the only movie forum that I’ve seen where Woody Allen is almost universally dismissed as a film maker.
Posted by VOR
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2009
67670 posts
Posted on 9/2/18 at 1:40 pm to
Start with
Sleepers and move on to

Annie Hall
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