Favorite Woody Allen Movie?

[Va Lefty]

Many people don't find him funny or relevant, that's cool. Don't vote. for those of you that enjoy his films, what's your fav?

[RainDog]

1. zelig

[nuxvomica]

9. A fricken brilliant movie

I watched it probably five or more times back in the day though I haven't seen it in years. It was later ripped off, poorly and more expensively, as Forrest Gump. Zemekis's millions in technology could not match the artistic genius of Gordon Willis.

[Greyskye]

2. Sleeper!

Any movie with an Orgasmatron has my vote!

[Guava Jelly]

3. Mighty Aphrodite

Mira Sorvino


Oh and it was a good movie too

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. I voted for Manhatten

But I loved Bananas, Sleeper and Annie Hall too.

[lost-in-nj]

5. none

what waste of time and money.....

:puke: :puke:


lost

[MonkeyFunk]

6. Impossible to say

I actually like every single Woody Allen movie I've seen, and I love most of them.

"Sweet and Lowdown" is a special favorite, and I recenty saw "Match Point" and thought it was brilliant. I even liked "Shadows and Fog", which everybody else seemed to hate.

[MrSlayer]

7. Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask.

How is this not in the standard choices?

[MrScorpio]

55. I second that emotion

Woefully absent

[End Of The Road]

72. It's the first Woody Allen movie I always think of

The scene where the sperm were lining up.... I was rolling in the aisle.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. Annie Hall.

[begin_within]

10. "The Purple Rose of Cairo" should be on the list too.

"He's fictional, but you can't have everything..."

[MissMillie]

38. yep

:thumbsup:

[Highway61]

11. Annie Hall

Re: the spider in the bath tub..."Ya didn't tell me it was the size of a Buick...."

[PassingFair]

12. I like Hannah & Her Sisters...

The characters were so complex and
so different from one another ....

AND every one of them is an unsympathetic
character.

SO interesting!

[HERVEPA]

13. Bananas

[OmahaBlueDog]

14. I love Bananas for the Howard Cosell coup' d'etat commentary.

[HERVEPA]

63. Concerning Cosell, have you ever seen the movie Better Off Dead?

[OmahaBlueDog]

65. No, I haven't seen Better Off Dead (at least I don't remember it)

[HERVEPA]

73. Early John Cusack. Contains two Asian guys who learned English

listening to Howard Cosell (on Wide World of Sports, I believe)

[cloudbase]

39. I'm in for Bananas, too. n/t

[Throd]

43. Rebels are we, born to be free...

...just like the fish in the sea.

[Fenris]

15. Love and Death

Best movie ever.

[Richardo]

17. THANK you.

I love that movie.

Boris: If a man said that to me, I'd break his neck.
Anton: *I* am a man.
Boris: Well, I mean a much shorter man.

[meegbear]

28. His best!

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

[terrya]

30. I agree with you....this is my favorite Woody Allen movie.

[Rambis]

33. One more Love and Death vote

brilliant movie

Napoleon: This is an honor for me.
Boris: No, it's a greater honor for me.
Napoleon: No, a greater honor for me.
Boris: No, it's a greater honor for me.
Napoleon: No, a greater honor for ME.
Boris: Well, perhaps you're right. Perhaps it IS a greater honor for you.
Napoleon: And you must be Don Francisco's sister.
Sonja: No, you must be Don Francisco's sister.
Napoleon: No, you must be Don Francisco's sister.
Sonja: No, you must be Don Francisco's sister.
Boris: No, it's a greater honor for me.
Napoleon: I see our Spanish guests have a sense of humor.
Boris: She's a great kidder.
Sonja: No, you're a great kidder.
Boris: No, you're Don Francisco's sister

[mikeytherat]

40. "And we have to burn the food so the French won't get it.

Although, it's tough to light borscht."

Sonja: "If only we were children again!"
Boris: "Yes. Preferably French children."

Commander: "If we kill more Frenchmen, we win. If they kill more Russians, they win."
Boris: "What do we win?"
Commander: "What do we win, private? Imagine your loved ones conquered by Napoleon and forced to live unde French rule. Do you want them to eat those rich foods and heavy sauces?"
Men: "No."
Commander: "Do you want them to eat souffleé every meal and croissant?"
Men: "No."

mikey_the_rat

[Richardo]

41. "I wonder if you would be as difficult to conquer as Russia." "Well, I weigh less."

:D

[terrya]

45. Sonja: "Boris, you're a coward!" Boris: "Yes, but I'm a militant coward"

[mikeytherat]

48. "And if everyone went around murdering everyone else,

it'd be a world full of murderers! Think what that would do to property values!"

"And if everyone went to the same restaurant on the same night and order blintzes, there would be chaos, but they don't!"

"I'm talking about murder, she's talking about blintzes."

mikey_the_rat

[underpants]

42. WHEAT!!! fields and fields of WHEAT!!!

Countess Alexandrovna: You are the greatest lover I've ever had.
Boris: Well, I practice a lot when I'm alone.

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Sonja: Boris, you can't be serious, you're talking about Mother Russia.
Boris: She's not my mother. My mother's standing right here, and she's not gonna let her youngest baby get shrapnel in his gums.
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Sergeant: If they kill more Russians, they win. If we kill more Frenchmen, we win.
Boris Grushenko: What do we win?

[mikeytherat]

49. "He'll go and he'll fight! And I hope they will put him on the front lines!"

"Thanks a lot, mom! My mother, folks!"

mikey_the_rat

[underpants]

53. ...

I love that part

[barb162]

56. Yes and it has great music too.

Besides all those great lines.

[Richardo]

58. We got to play 'The Lt. Kije Suite' in our high school orchestra

It's as much fun to play as it is to listen to.

[barb162]

59. I thought that would be a hard piece to play for most high school orchestras

The movie was well orchestrated as are most of Woody's movies. Radio Days and Manhattan were excellent that way too.

[edbermac]

16. C&M - very funny and very tragic.

Alan Alda was so obnoxious you wanted to slap him.

[Richardo]

18. Leave us not forget 'A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy'

:)

[Richardo]

19. What's Up Tiger Lily?

:D

[WCGreen]

24. I remember seeing that when I was about 13 years old...

Freeze, ort he Egg Salad get's it...

[Richardo]

31. That is the perfect age to see that movie

I found it hilarious at that age...

"Saracen dog! Anglo-Saxon Hun! Turkish Taffy!"

[Ellen Forradalom]

44. Another vote for What's Up Tiger Lily

"I'm Phil Moskowitz, loveable rogue!"

[Bennyboy]

20. Where's the Love for SLEEPER?

The Orgasmatron! The ORB!

[fishwax]

21. I like Sweet and Lowdown

[Tuesday Afternoon]

32. That is a good movie.

I had already forgotten about it.

[LynneSin]

36. I forgot about that one - I love Sweet and Lowdown too

Ok that's 2 Woody movies that I watch - that and Sleeper

[leftofthedial]

22. Sleeper

[WCGreen]

23. I really like Radio Days....

Manhattan and Bullets over Broadway were really good movies...

Black and White with Gershwin...

How could you not love Manhattan...

[JCMach1]

25. No Bananas? I did, oddly enough, like Match Point

Go figure!

[JCMach1]

26. I also liked Zelig!

[riverdeep]

27. Favorite is probably, 'Take the Money and Run'

I like his straight-up comedies, exclusively. Pretentious crap with the annoying Diane Keaton in stuff like 'Annie Hall' or 'Manhattan' makes me wretch. Watching Woody with a young Mariel Hemingway in 'Manhattan' also is disturbing, knowing what we know now.

Honorable mention also has to go to a little known gem, 'Small Time Crooks' (2000). One of his best pure comedies, ever.

[NoPasaran]

29. Sleeper

In general, I prefer the earlier, funny ones.

[momophile]

34. Sleeper has the best architecture

just sayin'...

[LynneSin]

35. This poll SUCKS without Sleeper

It's the ONLY Woody Allen Movie that I like to watch. Get rid of Matchpoint - that was sucky

[geardaddy]

51. Yes, Sleeper is a must in this poll

Also, Play it Again Sam.

[last_texas_dem]

37. I haven't seen enough of his movies to make a judgment

Oddly, the only two Woody Allen movies I have seen are two that are probably considered some of his least remarkable: the cheesy but watchable, at least IMHO, Everyone Says I Love You and some fairly recent one I forget the name of that starred Christina Ricci and Jason Biggs!

[Bennyboy]

46. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex*

But were afraid to ask is pretty damn funny.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

47. Has anyone mentioned "Sleeper"?

:rofl:

[geardaddy]

50. What about "Everyone Says I Love You"?

[CBHagman]

64. Hey, any movie that features...

...Marx Brothers impersonators singing "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" in French is all right with me.

I also like Bullets over Broadway, but Hannah and Her Sisters wins out as the favorite, at least as of this writing. Woody's not done yet.

[Orrex]

52. Husbands and Wives is magnificent

So wrong and so right, for so many reasons.

[barb162]

54. Love and Death and Radio Days and Manhattan

are all great movies.

[Richardo]

57. No 'Broadway Danny Rose' yet?

"I don't wanna badmouth the kid, but he's a horrible, dishonest, immoral louse. And I say that with all due respect."

[Westegg]

60. Hannah. For many reasons...

...and one of them is the following quote from Max Von Sydow's character, the misanthropic painter:

"You see the whole culture. Nazis, deodorant salesmen, wrestlers, beauty contests, a talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers. Third-grade con men telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak with Jesus, and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."

[u4ic]

61. The ones I don't watch

I've never been able to sit through one. I find his neuroticism annoying, to say the least.

[tishaLA]

62. Interiors, then Zelig

I love the still cameras in Interiors, with people floating in and out of frame. I know it's been overlooked because it's sandwiched between Annie Hall and Manhattan, but it has an elegiac beauty most of his "serious" films lack.

[MonkeyFunk]

68. ooh, I love Interiors...

what a fantastic movie.

[quiet.american]

66. Hands down -- "Broadway Danny Rose." :) nt

[Forkboy]

67. I like all his old stuff, but for some reason Play It Again Sam always kills me the most.

Take The Money And Run is pretty awesome, too. I actually don't really like Sleepers much, or pretty much anything he's done since Zelig. But his old stuff (including his books) are great.

[Vidar]

69. Other. I loved Casablanca, but I really enjoyed "Play It Again, Sam"--Woody's sendup of Bogey.

[DFW]

70. Trying to decide between Sleeper and Bananas

King Solomon didn't have a more difficult choice.........

[bigwillq]

71. Bullets over Broadway (nt)