What's your favorite Woody Allen movie?

[red dog 1]

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Commenting on "Sleeper," film critic Roger Ebert wrote:
"If the plot sounds slightly insane, recollect that one Allen movie began with Howard Cosell doing a play-by-play of an assassination, and another had Woody slapping Listerine under his arm and squirting Right Guard into his mouth before a big date."

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	What's Up Tiger Lily (1966)
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	Take the Money and Run (1969)
	1 (10%)
	Bananas (1971)
	2 (20%)
	Play It Again Sam (1972)
	3 (30%)
	Love and Death (1975)
	1 (10%)
	Annie Hall (1977)
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	Sleeper (1973)
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	Manhattan (1979)
	2 (20%)
	Sweet and Lowdown (1995)
	1 (10%)
	Match Point (2005)
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[WhiteTara]

1. None. I believe his daugther and he is an incestuous pedophile

and his work disgusts me.

[red dog 1]

16. See reply # 15

[NightWatcher]

2. None. I wish Mia would've let Sinatra do what he offered.

Sorry, not sorry.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

On 9-11 the owner of the local independent theater here in Palm Springs chose to keep his business open all day, telling his employees, "People are going to need somewhere to go..."

I went to an afternoon showing, and there were about 30 of us taking a break from the never-ending coverage of the tragedy.

That's the reason it's my favorite Woody Allen movie.

[longship]

6. "Constantinople!"

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Others - first Radio Days

then -
Interiors
Annie Hall
Hannah and her Sisters
Manhattan
Blue Jasmine

So one favorite and 5 others that are all clustered behind it

[unblock]

5. Shawshank redemption

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. not Woody Allen

[unblock]

13. Ah, that would explain why I like it.

[jberryhill]

34. lol

[red dog 1]

9. I forgot about Radio Days

I love that one!

(Interiors was kind of depressing)

I never saw Blue Jasmine.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. Interiors was depressing, which is why I loved it - such a huge departure for Allen.

You must see Blue Jasmine - Cate Blanchett just knocks it out of the park

[red dog 1]

49. I'll put Blue Jasmine on my wish list

[SeattleVet]

7. Sleeper

...followed by What's Up Tiger Lilly

[dhol82]

11. Sleeper! Thats my favorite!

Loved it.

[red dog 1]

51. You can now vote for Sleeper

[customerserviceguy]

25. Yes, that was my favorite, too

and it was done before we knew that Woody was a perv.

[red dog 1]

54. The real "perv" now occupies the White House

He very likely raped a 13-year-old girl back in the early 1990s
https://www.justiceforkatie.com

(You can now vote for Sleeper)

[Loki Liesmith]

31. This is the correct answer

[red dog 1]

52. You can now vote for Sleeper

[red dog 1]

50. You can now vote for Sleeper

[Lunabell]

12. The one where he gets arrested for pedophilia

[red dog 1]

15. Lighten up....This is the DU Lounge

Besides: (From Wikipedia)
"A months-long investigation by the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of Yale-New Haven Hospital concluded that Dylan (his 7-year-old daughter) had not been sexually assaulted."

In a deposition, the pediatrician who was on the team of investigators said that he thought Dylan had been "coached" by Mia Farrow.
Dylan's answers were "inconsistent"..i.e., She said one thing, then, later, she said something else.
If Allen had actually sexually assaulted her, shouldn't her answers to the Yale-New Haven Hospital team have been "consistent"?
Also, it was a couple of Farrow's housekeepers who alleged that Allen "might have sexually abused his daughter."

[Lunabell]

19. Yeh, cause rape and pedophilia are such light hearted matters

Smh

[red dog 1]

22. "Rape"??

What rape?
Did I miss something?
Was Woody Allen accused of rape?

As far as pedophilia goes...pedophilia is definitely NOT a "light hearted Matter"..

Do you know something that the local police and the Yale-New Haven Hospital Child Sexual Abuse Unit doesn't know?

If so, why don't you tell them?

THEY determined that Dylan was not molested!
THEY determined that Dylan's answers were "not consistent" (Why was that?)
The judge dismissed the case!

If you have any evidence that proves that Woody Allen molested his daughter, then you should come forward and notify the police.



Now, If you want to talk about REAL pedophilia and REAL child rape, go to the website of the woman who testified, under oath, in a US Federal Court deposition, that Donald J. Trump and his convicted pedophile friend, Jeffrey Epstein, raped her when she was 13-years-old.
Another woman also gave a deposition, under oath, that she witnessed the rape.
The President of the United States raped a 13-year-old girl and GOT AWAY WITH IT!
Why aren't you angry about that?
https://www.justiceforkatie.com

[CountAllVotes]

27. Lost cause to defend this artist

Same story as Michael Jackson even though he was acquitted by a jury of his peers and was innocent.

America is great at finishing off its finest talents one can't help but notice, innocent or guilty, those tabloids rule!

[Lunabell]

41. You know they found child pornography on his computer after his death.

He may not have been found guilty for child rape, but what was he doing with kiddy poem on his computer? I'm sick of apologists. #metoo

[Ohiya]

43. Since you seem to be from the future...

... could you tell me what next Wednesdays powerball numbers are going to be?

Thanks in advance!

[CountAllVotes]

60. Quit reading those tabloids

Because of them, Michael Jackson is dead & those tabloids are part of the reason why.

Find some other form of FAKE NEWS to occupy yourself with.

[CountAllVotes]

29. +1

Right. Go after the real guilty trash and dump tRump!

[Lunabell]

40. Yes obviously you missed his daughter Dylan Darrow accusing him of rape

When she was only 7. SEVEN YEARS OLD! I believe her. #metoo.

[red dog 1]

44. Yeah, I guess I did "miss his daughter Dylan Farrow accusing him of rape"

Are you're referring to her "CBS This Morning" interview with Gayle King which aired Jan 18, 2018?

If you are, then the Jan 18, 2018 New York Times article on that interview,
as well as the Jan 18, 2018 Washington Post article on that "CBS This Morning" interview,
also "missed his daughter Dylan Farrow accusing him of rape" because there is absolutely no mention of any rape allegation in either article.
If it were true, that is, if Dylan Farrow told Gayle King that Woody raped her when she was 7,
don't you think that the NYT and the WaPo articles of January 18 would have included that in their respective articles?
That would be big news, wouldn't it?
(Because of computer limitations, I'm unable to post links to the articles, but they both can easily be found using Google)
WaPo article title: "He's been lying for so long: Dylan farrow speaks out on her allegations against Woody Allen"
NYT article title: "Dylan Farrow Accuses Woody Allen of Sexual Abuse in TV Interview"

What WAS in the WaPo article was the following:
"New York state child welfare investigators and a Yale-New Haven Hospital report at the time found abuse DID NOT HAPPEN."

The New York Times article about the Gayle King interview never mentions any rape allegations by Dylan Farrow either.
However, it does say the following:
"Dr. John M. Leventhal, the doctor who led the investigation into Mr. Allen, interviewed Ms. Farrow nine times in 1992 and said that he FOUND INCONSISTENCIES in her story, even raising the possibility that she may have been 'coached' by her mother."

Speaking of Mia Farrow "coaching her daughter," Dylan's older brother Moses has said that he witnessed his mother doing exactly that - relentlessly coaching Dylan, trying to drum into her that her father was a dangerous sexual predator." (Same WaPo article of 1/18/2018)

If Woody Allen raped his 7-year-old daughter, wouldn't Dr. John M. Leventhal, the doctor who examined her, have found evidence of such a rape?

What is your source for suggesting that Dylan Farrow even said in that interview that Woody Allen raped her?
(I would like to see that).

[NanceGreggs]

37. Some facts ...

Woody Allen is 82, and his career spans over sixty years. He has never been accused of molesting any child - OTHER THAN the accusation leveled by Mia Farrow, who made the accusation in the midst of a very bitter humiliating break-up.

As we all know, pedophiles cannot control their sexual impulses, and are repeat offenders – and yet Allen has never been accused of such behaviour before or since the incidents that Farrow alleged.

Not a single person has ever come forward to make similar accusations, or even to suggest seeing or hearing anything untoward in Allen’s behaviour at any time.

Farrow, on the other hand, has never been a stranger to lying and being deceitful, especially where her own interests are concerned. She betrayed one of her closest friends, Dory Previn, and had an affair with her husband, Andre Previn, who later left his wife for Farrow.

In 2013, Farrow revealed that her son with Allen, Satchel (now Ronan), was “possibly the child of Frank Sinatra” – which means she was unfaithful to Allen and, despite being unsure of his parentage, passed the boy off as Allen’s child.

Allen started a relationship with Farrow’s adopted daughter, Soon-Yi, when she was 19 – not a “child”. They never had a father-daughter relationship – Allen never even lived in the same home as Farrow’s adoptive children and those of her previous relationships. Allen and Soon-yi have now been married for decades, without a hint of scandal.

The case of molestation against Allen was dismissed, the judge having found that Dylan, the child he’d allegedly molested, had been coached by her mother.

So if you believe that Allen is guilty, you are basing that on a SINGLE accusation by a child who had been coached by a very bitter, vindictive Farrow – a woman whose own lies and erratic behaviour was well-known.

Those are the facts – but don’t let them get in the way of the ludicrous idea that an 82-year-old “pedophile” with a lengthy, high-profile career has managed to escape detection his entire adult life.

[Vinnie From Indy]

57. Thank you for this!

eom

[edbermac]

58. One thing intrigues me about this whole case.

Mia Farrow's brother, John Villiers-Farrow pled guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2013 for sexually abusing two boys for over eight years.

"Businessman John Villiers-Farrow pleaded guilty to two counts of child abuse after he was handed down 39 charges for the molestation of the boys who were his neighbors in Maryland in 2002. He pleaded guilty in July so he could get a lighter sentence but has always asserted his innocence. His sentence was suspended for 15 years, which means Villiers-Farrow will spend at least the next ten years in jail."

....

"The first victim moved near to Villiers-Farrow’s home when he was six-years-old, and came to know the family because they had a son who was a few years younger than him. The victim spent a lot of time at the family's home and Villiers-Farrow would buy him gifts, take him to baseball games and on other trips, the arrest document states. Prosecutors said that it was when the boy was between the ages of nine and 16 that he abused him regularly. In the same time period, a second boy who was friends with the first victim, was abused about a dozen times over five years, Deputy State Attorney Kathleen Rogers said. The victims told police that he would show them pornographic movies. The encounters escalated to touching and then to oral sex."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478439/John-Villers-Farrow-Mia-Farrows-brother-jailed-sexually-abusing-2-boys.html

I don't know if Dylan was or wasn't abused by Allen or anyone else for that matter. But I find it interesting that I've never seen any statements by Mia, Ronan or Dylan discussing JVF.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

61. Very thorough and concise wrap-up.

This anti-Allen stuff seems to come up periodically around here. There are some folks who are really dug in on him being a pedophile or this or that in the face of all the facts to the point where sadly I have to wonder what their real issue is with him.

[Va Lefty]

65. Thanks for posting this

Huffington Post really seems to be on an anti-Allen binge lately.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

63. This.

1000 time this.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Love and Death, followed closely by Take the Money and Run and Annie Hall.

Bananas was pretty good too.

[red dog 1]

17. I'm surprised Bananas has zero votes so far

I loved It!

[Generic Brad]

18. Are you referring to ones he starred in or ones he authored?

If we go with ones he authored/directed I would go with "The Purple Rose of Cairo". If we go with ones he acted in - "Annie Hall".

[red dog 1]

23. The ones he directed

[RandomAccess]

20. None. For all the above reasons.

[TexasBushwhacker]

62. Yeah. I've found him creepy since he hooked up with Soon To

I watched Manhattan recently, to see if I still found it funny. I didn't. He just seems like the ultimate narcissist. Ronan believes his sister and that's good enough for me. Considering that he and Dylan will be disinherited, they had pretty good motivation to recant, but they haven't.

BTW, he really did have an affair with a teenager while he was making Annie Hall.

FWIW, I was molested as a child, as was my mother, so I'm sure that colors my perception.

I haven't watched a Polanski film since Chinatown either.

[mucifer]

21. Crimes and Misdemeanors. It was actually a lot like MatchPoint but better.

[sarge43]

24. Radio Days n/t

[TDale313]

26. I believe his daughter. n/t

[MLAA]

32. +1 and havent gone to see any of his films since

[Loki Liesmith]

28. Wheres Sleeper?

[red dog 1]

48. Good question!

I should have included it in the poll.

It's one of his best...far better than "Everything You Always Wanted To know About Sex"

So, with apologies to whomever voted for "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex,"
and because there are now 4 votes for Sleeper, "Sleeper" is now a poll option.

[GP6971]

30. None.

I refuse to watch anything with or produced by him.

[malchickiwick]

33. He's an awful person, but Crimes and Misdemeanors is a brilliant film. Annie Hall too, but less so.

[jalan48]

35. I liked 'Midnight in Paris'.

[donco]

36. None

Worth a dime.

[Wolf Frankula]

38. I prefer his earlier movies, where he's trying to be Woody Allen.

Not where he's trying to be Bergman, Truffaut, Godard or De Sica. I wondered if he'd ever try to be Kurosawa.

Wolf

[R B Garr]

39. Mighty Aphrodite, and Mira Sorvino won an Oscar for

her work in that movie. She was absolutely magnificent. I always wondered what happened to her — such a great actress and now we see that her career was derailed by Weinstein. Such a shame.

[Lunabell]

42. What's your favorite Harvey Weinstein movie?

[DFW]

45. Bananas

[Orrex]

46. Husbands and Wives

Terrific performances all around, but Judy Davis is magnificent.

Great camera work, and tThe dialogue, as always, is superb. I also love Sydney Pollack in this role.

Strictly speaking, none of the characters is likable, but they are generally sympathetic to some degree or another.

And Allen himself gives a surprisingly self-effacing role. His writing professor character Gabe becomes involved with a much, much younger student, but it doesn't work out well, and Gabe seems to realize only too late that he is chiefly responsible for his own interpersonal failings.

[aka-chmeee]

47. I love "Zelig"

Apparently made before Farrow went into scorched earth mode.

[Skittles]

53. I liked Hannah and Her Sisters

surely I can say I liked a movie without endorsing pedophilia

[snowybirdie]

55. Never saw one

He was too weird for me. Glad I trusted my gut. Those poor children

[LeftInTX]

56. Bananas and Radio Days

Both are very different movies. Radio Days is about a kid in the 1940s, based on his own childhood. It is light-hearted and well done.

Bananas is crazy and one of my favorite comedies. Ranks up there with Airplane for me.

I haven't seen Take the Money and Run.

I don't care for Annie Hall, Love and Death, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Play it Again Sam etc etc.

[First Speaker]

59. Purple Rose of Cairo

[Paladin]

64. I voted for "Annie Hall," but "Broadway Danny Rose" is a small enduring gem.

Great tribute to Borscht Belt performers and their tireless managers.

[pressbox69]

66. Bananas

Howard Cosell steals the movie.

[red dog 1]

67. Play It Again Sam..

..is probably my favorite, but I also love:

- Take The Money & Run
- Bananas
- Sleeper
- Sweet and Lowdown
- What's Up Tiger Lily