Tag Archives: Woody Allen

10 Pieces of Music Inseparable From a Movie

March 4, 2019 flawintheiris

This post is borne out of a conversation that came up between friends some time ago, about the how some pre-existing songs have been used so successfully in film to make them forever joined with said film in my mind and heart. In some cases it's because the picture introduced me to the song, or… Read More

Version Control: Where Else You Can Get Me Right Now

September 12, 2016 flawintheiris

Just in case you were wondering where I'm putting my efforts these days aside from this space, here's an update: Living film encyclopedia Stephen Cooke and I are back hard at work on LENS ME YOUR EARS, our podcast. We took an unofficial hiatus for part of this year, but have now landed again. This… Read More

Café Society review — Woody in a Wistful Mood

July 28, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Woody Allen | 96 min | Amazon Prime |▲▲▲△△ "Until, one day out hunting, she mistook him for a deer." That line's got great bite, maybe the best in the whole picture, a fleeting moment of Woody Allen's wit at its sharpest—though, granted, some context will help with getting the laugh if… Read More

The Lobster review — Absurdist dystopia brings the yuks (for awhile)

April 27, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos | Written by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou | 118 min | ▲▲▲△△ Imagine a world where single people must check in to a resort hotel and submit to a host of rules—no masturbation, but sexual touching with maids is required. If these singles don't fall in love with another person within… Read More

Watching Robin Williams

August 17, 2014 flawintheiris

I figured I'd wait a few days before offering any kind of tribute to Robin Williams. Give the news a chance sink in. It seems to me a universal tragedy; someone so talented, so adored, would feel so despondent as to end his life. Depression doesn't discriminate. Of the more moving remembrances to the Oscar-winning actor… Read More

Magic in the Moonlight review

August 13, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Woody Allen | Amazon Prime While there's a certain inevitability to a new Woody Allen movie—he's made one a year since the early 80s, and was pretty quick about putting them out in the years before that, too—going to see one of his pictures and reviewing it in 2014 nearly feels… Read More

Fading Gigolo review

June 4, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by John Turturro Murray (Woody Allen) is a New York bookseller. His buddy, Fioravante (Turturro), is a florist. Things are a little slow in both of their businesses, so Murray hatches a plan to pimp his chum out to dissatisfied, wealthy women, including Dr Parker (Sharon Stone) and her libidinous BFF Selima (Sofia… Read More

Blockbuster Blues 2014: The Good and The Grim Prospects for This Season at The Movies

May 14, 2014 flawintheiris

This summer's blockbuster selection looks pretty dire, I gotta say. In April we had Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Transcendence. This month we've got The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past. These are big-budget science fiction and fantasy films, highly anticipated, which make all in the Nerd Nation very happy—and me too. But the first three are… Read More

How do I watch Woody Allen now?

February 9, 2014 flawintheiris

Yesterday I sat down with an old friend. We talked about movies, as we sometimes do, and since we both grew up watching Woody Allen, we talked about the reasons he's been in the news lately. She said, "I can forgive a lot, but this is one thing where I'd leave him on a desert… Read More

Blue Jasmine review

August 19, 2013 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Woody AllenJasmine is actually Jeanette. Somewhere along the way she changed it, because Jeanette didn't have the requisite flair. Jasmine married up, to Hal, a New York one-percenter if there ever was one. Except Hal is crook and when he's arrested, the lawyers take everything. Jasmine, desperate, heads to San Francisco… Read More