Very interesting thought provoking read, thanks. I wonder if such passionate well crafted films could ever return and find a market in today’s TikTok attention span generation?
Fascinating read. Annie Hall and Broadcast News are two of my top ten all time favorite pictures.
Parallel leads in Broadcast News and The Way We Were for sure. I preferred the former because "too serious" was done in nuance, crossing the ever-moving ethics line, whereas Streisand's character was flat out red. Glad you cited Joan Cusack ducking and hurdling to the control room and the Albert Brooks flop sweat scene, both enduring comedy classics. I still sit on my jacket for a posture lift.
Annie Hall was so inventive outside the narrative structure. Woody and Marshall Brickman stuck laughs everywhere. Loved the classroom flashback scene, "Sometimes I wonder where my
classmates are today." The New York vs. Los Angeles contrast never worked better. "Are we driving through plutonium?" So many small moments. Grammy Hall's anti-semitic glance. Duane of the suicidal fantasy behind the wheel in heavy rain. Tony Lacey rubbing the little cocaine spoon to set up the big sneeze.
Re: the editing of Annie Hall. You are absolutely right … they found this film in editing. A great and very thorough overview of this is the chapter on Annie Hall within the book When the Shooting Stops The Cutting Begins.
Very interesting thought provoking read, thanks. I wonder if such passionate well crafted films could ever return and find a market in today’s TikTok attention span generation?
Fascinating read. Annie Hall and Broadcast News are two of my top ten all time favorite pictures.
Parallel leads in Broadcast News and The Way We Were for sure. I preferred the former because "too serious" was done in nuance, crossing the ever-moving ethics line, whereas Streisand's character was flat out red. Glad you cited Joan Cusack ducking and hurdling to the control room and the Albert Brooks flop sweat scene, both enduring comedy classics. I still sit on my jacket for a posture lift.
Annie Hall was so inventive outside the narrative structure. Woody and Marshall Brickman stuck laughs everywhere. Loved the classroom flashback scene, "Sometimes I wonder where my
classmates are today." The New York vs. Los Angeles contrast never worked better. "Are we driving through plutonium?" So many small moments. Grammy Hall's anti-semitic glance. Duane of the suicidal fantasy behind the wheel in heavy rain. Tony Lacey rubbing the little cocaine spoon to set up the big sneeze.
Great piece (so far, still reading).
Re: the editing of Annie Hall. You are absolutely right … they found this film in editing. A great and very thorough overview of this is the chapter on Annie Hall within the book When the Shooting Stops The Cutting Begins.