Just ten days ago, it was reported that Amazon, under pressure from the Metoo campaign, would suspend plans for the release of a new film that Woody Allen had made last October.
Is that the end of a new Woody Allen film of the year?
In fact, I know that this day will eventually come, after all, the old man is already 78 years old. Unexpectedly, he did not lose to time, but to himself.
From the age of 15, he began to work as a stand-up comedian, his life was full of controversy, love was not smooth, marriage was turbulent, three knots and three separations, and finally he entered the marriage with his third wife, Mia Faro, and her ex-husband's adopted daughter Song Yi.
In 1992, he was accused of sexually assaulting him and Mia Faro's adopted daughter. At that time, he strenuously denied his actions, coupled with insufficient evidence, and did not succeed.
In 2014, the adopted daughter of the year grew up and took the matter again. But later many people thought that this time it was her adoptive mother Mia Faro who manipulated her behind her back.
With the rise of the meta-movement in 2017, Woody Allen's past was once again brought to the forefront. Last year's "Ferris Wheel" was affected by this, and word-of-mouth box office failures were doubled.
None of this, however, has affected him from becoming a good and great director, and his work is always full of whimsy and critical irony.
He used his astonishing amount of knowledge and even more amazing brain circuits to tease literary and artistic circles in the United States and even the world in the most literary way, attack the upper class, and ridicule the middle class.
Hollywood gave him Best Picture, and he refused to accept the award. But he has a good heart, and his works also allow us to see more truth.
1. Xili Chuan
Release date: 1983-07-15
Main Cast: / /
Douban score: 8.9 points
Imdb score: 7.9
Using a pseudo-documentary to tell the story of a human chameleon, he wants to integrate into this society, he wants to be loved by everyone, so he has developed the skills of chameleons, mixed in a variety of far-flung social circles, different classes, even different races.
Then he became the focus of all Americans.
In order to increase the sense of realism, the film is black and white, very grainy, creating 200s and 30s image technology, and at the same time, it also brings live-action guest interviews with various celebrities who appear in the film, such as Owen Howe, Susan Sontag, and Saul Bellow. He also mentions it several times in the film
This film blackened all Americans, in addition to the literary and artistic circles, but also the political, medical, sports and other general public, including several presidents of the United States.
2. Manhattan
Release date: 1979-04-25
Main Cast: / / /
Douban score: 8.3 points
Imdb score: 7.7
A failed writer, his lover, his ex-wife, his daughter, his friends and friends beautiful lovers, 3 men, 3 women, in New York's most densely populated Manhattan district, this bustling and lonely city, in what way should this group of adults solve their emotional problems morally and fairly?
The opening, like his other works of the era, lasted ninety minutes, woody's black-and-white love letter to New York, a perfect movie, but Woody himself was very dissatisfied. Yes, write love letters to the woman you love, always dissatisfied.
3. Cairo Purple Rose
Release date: 1985-03-01
Douban score: 8.6 points
Imdb score: 8.0
The film tells the story of the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s, a housewife who works a boring waiter job every day in front of her boring husband, and indulges in the movie "Cairo Violet", which tells the story of high life. Suddenly, one day, the male protagonist in the play, Tom, came off the screen! Walk straight up to her and elope with her. The two people exchange heartfelt feelings, although at first very romantic, but later found that this can not fill the stomach, the male protagonist Tom in the real life of the actor also appeared, also in order to win her heart and Tom to compete in the duel. How will this ridiculous farce end?
The sad song of movie lovers, as a movie fan, is quite touching to watch. Sometimes, the love of a movie is because it can lead you out of the misery of this real life. But when you are really like the heroine in the film, the fantasy comes true, you come together with the movie world, you will find that the movie is nothing more than a packaging of suffering, or selectively eliminating suffering, you can't see it, it still exists.
4. Anne Hall
Release date: 1977-04-20
Comedian Ive Singer (Woody Allen) is a man who cares deeply about his Jewish origins; thinks he has childhood shadows, has been paying for sixteen years of watching a psychiatrist without getting better; has a bit of a Q spirit but is full of negativity about life; and likes to tell boring jokes all the time. Because of her own neurotic qualities, Ive has experienced two failed marriages.
The beginning of Woody Allen's peak period was also the most cruel time for Hollywood to throw a wink at Woody, giving him an Oscar for best picture. Of course Woody refused. In addition to "The Biography of Xi Li", my favorite of his works, words, all kinds of nagging, merciless punches in the face of intellectuals. One of the characteristics of this movie is that the characters in the play often break the existence of the film space, enjoy the story of the people in the play as bystanders, or break the fourth wall and talk directly to you outside the screen.
5. Sister Hannah
Release date: 1986-02-07
Main Cast: / / / /
Douban score: 8.1 points
In a family of actors, Elliott, the husband of the eldest sister Hannah, is fascinated by the younger sister-in-law Li. The second sister Holly quit drugs and is now considering a profitable business because of financial constraints, while Hannah's ex-husband, TV director Miki, hallucinates his brain tumor all day long, and it is painful to seek medical treatment everywhere. Little Sister Li gets along with the lonely painter lover and is the only object of the latter's talk. ...... All the people around this actor's family are going through a reshuffle of emotions and careers.
Everyone has their own story, and even if at some point they intersect, they all have their own destiny. Everyone has their own heart, and in each chapter, there is the inner monologue of the protagonist of this chapter, telling their betrayal, cowardice, and hatred, in stark contrast to the loyalty, bravery, and kindness they show.
6. Love and death
Release date: 1975-06-10
Main Cast: /
Imdb score: 7.8
Although still a comedy, the subject matter is a war that Woody Allen rarely touches.
A small person, a fish belly who is despised by his brothers and sisters all day long, became a hero in the war, and after returning home, he actually won the heart of Mu si, who is now married to someone else's wife. War strikes again, Napoleon captures Moscow, and Boris must return to the battlefield. Unable to bear the pain of parting, Soga decided to assassinate Napoleon once and for all
Love is a thing that teaches people to live and die, so in order to live with their lovers, assassinating Hitler is not a fantasy. There is no lower limit to the war, on the one hand, there is suffering, and on the other hand, it is still a high pleasure that makes you happy. At that time, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton were enviable couples on and off the screen, but unfortunately the good times were not long.
7, structural love mania
Release date: 1997-12-12
Douban score: 8.5 points
Imdb score: 7.4
A writer who confuses a real and fictional life triggers a series of incredible changes in life. The deconstruction movement vigorously promotes the dissipation of the subject and the extension of meaning. This is a theme that many of Woody Allen's works address. This, of course, is a blatant structure, deconstructing an ethnic group by deconstructing a Harry—the writer, of course, the most of his own. Every literary and artistic creator is stealing other people's stories and lives, and narcissism, self, will only think wildly.
8. Bullets fly across Broadway
Release date: 1995-02-24
Imdb score: 7.5
A depressed screenwriter is appreciated by the gang boss, and he has to bow to the evil forces. In the chaotic and desperate crew career, he discovers that the gangsters who monitor him are instead a screenwriter wizard... He insisted on justice for half a lifetime, and was shaken, and he began to enjoy the applause and flowers after success, but the gangster brother insisted on the charm of art.
Still deconstructed and ironic, everyone is caught up in an extremely awkward situation and ends up in their place; "An artist creates his own moral universe," a line that is simply Allen's ultimate self-deprecation/defense.
9. Midnight in Paris
Release date: 2011-06-10
Gill and his fiancée Inez accompanied her father-in-law and mother-in-law on a holiday in Paris. He wanted to stay in Paris to finish his first novel, but Inez and his parents were adamantly opposed. At midnight, he was walking alone on the streets of Paris, but was attracted by a passing carriage. He came to a celebrity party with the carriage, and by mistake he met Hemingway, Picasso, Fitzgerald, Dalí...
One of the European love letter trilogies, and one of woody Allen's later works, my favorite, Beauty, makes Paris so beautiful. He also brought out my favorite Hemingway and many people liked Fitzgeraldra, and together they staged a crossover drama in Paris. Literary and artistic young people love this part, but personally, like his later works, the beauty is beautiful, and it has maintained a consistent literary and artistic nature, but the sharpness is greatly reduced. After all, he was old, and he no longer had the defiant mentality of his youth.
10. Sex book
Release date: 1972-08-06
Douban score: 8.0 points
Imdb score: 6.8
Woody Allen's first book, one of my favorites, seven chapters, explores seven sensitive and sharp sexual topics, including "Does an Aphrodisiac Work?" "What is bestiality?" "Why Are Women Cold", "Are Transvestites Gay?" "What is a sexual abnormality?" "Is the Doctor of Sexology Credible?" and What's going on with ejaculation? "" is actually a serious and imaginative sex education film, quite funny and funny. Especially in the last paragraph, Woody and his companions enter the human body, and the overall process of ejaculation is parsed by the image.