>>>I resent that you don't have even one Woody Allen's movie in your top list. In mine there would be at least 5 of them :).
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>>>This might be a shocker, but I've never watched one all the way through. OK, I'll ask....which is the best to watch?
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>>Maybe Manhattan because it has a lot of Gershwin and Mariel Hemingway. The cinematography (B&w) is amazing. My understanding is Allen didn't want the movie to be released - perhaps because his character - instead of the loveable neurotic genius he'd like to see himself as - is pretty clearly a guy with a lot of insecurity issues and a taste for jailbait.
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>>I thought the movie worked.
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>>I like some of his movies, but he wears on me quickly. This one, though, holds up for me on re-watching.
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>>>I like some of his movies, but he wears on me quickly.
>Ditto.
>Woody started out as a stand-up comic/writer and he's at his best as a writer when he's writing those lines for himself.
>Some of his most hilarious bits are in Take The Money and Run which doesn't have a serious line in it.
>His "serious" movies don't work for me.
Isn't "I have a gub" from that one?
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