Seriously, go watch the trailer and come back and tell me that the shots don't look awkward.
I know Woody has never been much of a visual artist, but this is a whole new level of ineptitude and laziness on his part. It's like he's not even trying to get any sort of competency going for his films now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc9Hi-12Bio
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He's replicating the same style he had in his old New York movies in the 90s, probably on purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHjG3QjhWf0
Allen has always been a visual, as well as verbal artist, and has employed some of the greatest cinematographers in the business. "A Rainy Day in New York" is beautifully filmed, particularly the rain sequences.
shareYeah, I agree, this thread is trolling. Selena Gomez alone is cinematographic enough!
shareThe OP probably deleted his account out of embarassment. He says that Allen is not a strongly visual director, but he has worked with some legendary cinematographers like Gordon Willis and Sven Nykvist. In the case of "Rainy Day in New York", he is working with Vittorio Storaro, the talented cinematographer who gave us "Apocalypse Now". Too bad the OP saw only the two minute trailer and penned his entire judgement on the film based on it. I've watched the trailer twice and don't see anything "inept" in it.
shareI'll have to agree.
Seeing Storaro's name at the beginning I thought I'd be in for a beautifully shot movie... this was quite drab looking. Far, far, far from Storaro's best work.
A lot of people in this thread seem to be defending the movie on name power (Allen, Storaro) as opposed to what they see on screen. Look, this isn't the worst shot movie around but given some of Storaro's work it is quite bland and flat.
To be fair Storaro was 79 and Allen was 83 when this was made, they're doing well to be alive at their ages never mind making movies.
HD, 1080p trailer instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIVRldiVDL8