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Any good recent Woody Allen movies?

posted 9 years ago by catmydogs
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I think Woody Allen films are an acquired taste. For the most part, they do tend to canter to a more adult or mature audience. I like more thought-provoking films, personally.

However, he makes films for a small audience, and frankly, none of his films ever seem to show up anywhere near where I live. The last Allen film I saw was Match Point, I think, and I found it to be forgettable. Not a bad film, just not particularly memorable. The last Allen film I really liked was Everyone Says I Love You, but I'm a sucker for feel-good musicals.

So, I'm just wondering if Woody Allen has created any truly remarkable films in the past 20 years, and if so, what are they so I can track them down? Thanks.

[–] wooody 9 years ago

I thought Match Point was quite good. Try Paris At Midnight....NOW!

[–] LifeisaStateofMind 9 years ago

Definitely. Midnight in Paris was classic Woody Allen charm, and won him an academy award. Blue Jasmine was a superb, intense drama.

[–] rudeboy_murray 9 years ago

Blue Jasmine is terrific, for my money his best film since Bullets Over Broadway.

[–] The_White_Hotel 9 years ago

Blue Jasmine is by far my favourite Allen movie since Sweet and Lowdown. Midnight in Paris was okay. Didn't like Match Point. I think it's clear that he is much diminished since the 90s. Between 1969 and 1999 there's only two or three Allen films that I don't much care for out of something like 25 movies. Since 1999 there's only two or three I like and even those can't hold a candle to work like Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors etc. He'll never make a film like those again, as much as I would love him to.

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[–] julienrodger 9 years ago

I don't know about "truly remarkable" - I think he hasn't made one of his masterpieces since the 90s personally. But I'd still take his last 10-15 years over almost any other director's in that time frame based on quantity of very good to great work.

His most notable films in terms of critics and the public since 2000 are Match Point, Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine. Midnight in Paris was nominated for Best Picture and Blue Jasmine won Best Actress for Cate Blanchett.

Personally I have never agreed that much with how critics rank Allen films, so I don't necessarily agree. I see Midnight in Paris as one of his weakest films of all time and Blanchett is the main driving point behind Blue Jasmine's success. I think his last 3 films Cafe Society, Irrational Man, and Magic in the Moonlight is the biggest roll he's been on in a while

[–] akeshishian17969 9 years ago

All of them.

[–] kj-fuller 9 years ago

I don't believe there has ever been a good Woody Allen movie

[–] Grethiwha 9 years ago

My first introduction to Woody Allen was "Scoop", which I loved. I really loved that whole "London Trilogy" back in the day, but Match Point is the most popular of that lot.

Since then I've seen nearly every Woody Allen movie. My favourite of the more recent ones is probably "Whatever Works". Of course I'm also a big Larry David fan. He is an ideal match to deliver Woody Allen's lines. :)

And of course Midnight in Paris, as people have mentioned, is a legitimately whimsical Woody Allen movie. And I too loved Everyone Says I Love You.

Besides those, Vicky Cristina Barcelona should also probably be mentioned, as a particularly good one.

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