...just doesnt go.
Never the less this is a great movie and one of Woody's best.
It just looks weird watching him walk in the streets.Guess were too used to seeing him in NY
Now he wandered of completely :)
I also think this is one of his best...(Manhattan stays my oldtime favorite). Love the clumsy living room scene.
Interesting point, zekidemirag. Woody is a stereotypical New Yorker, but as a long time resident of SF (now living in NY!), I appreciated the scenery and ambience that are unique to the city.
sharei think the san francisco setting ties into the bogart references since that's where the maltese falcon was set. i don't know if it's in the original play or not. it does seem odd seeing woody anywhere but new york tho'.
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Well, I actually liked it better being in SF, I mean, it's great seeing a Woody Allen in a different place, NY is great and all, but for a change...
shareteh movie was filmed in San Francisco due to a strike in New York. The original settings were NYC and Long Island.
shareWell, Woody and New York. Those were the times my friend. But by now we have seen him directing and acting in Paris, Venice, London, Barcelona ... Local boy gone international.
shareWell, Scoop is the only one of his overseas pictures he has acted in so far. He's always been off screen in the others - Match Point, Cassandra's Dream, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Midnight in Paris.
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You're forgetting Everyone Says I Love You where Allen is acting both in Venice and Paris.
shareMy brother and I are fans of the Wood Man, and we are both New Yorkers. He has since moved to California. A couple of years back, independently of each other, we revisited PIAAS, and we were both surprised how un-weird it was to see Woody in San Francisco. My brother says that San Francisco is probably the California city most New Yorkers would feel at home in.
shareRemember Herbert Ross was directing and he chose not to pay homage to the city in the way that Woody did to some of the cities in his later films.
shareSan Francisco is a lot smaller than New York. Kinda more like Boston in my opinion.
share"Take the Money and Run" was also filmed in SF. His next film, with Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine" was filmed in SF. It opens July 26
shareClearly it should have been shot in Casablanca, I mean, Van Nuys airport.
shareIt's a nice time capsule of San Francisco as it was when I lived there in the '70s. In spite of the drug dealers and porn theaters south of Market Street, it was for the most part a beautiful city. The squalid mess that's there today bears it little resemblance.
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