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Woody Allen’s Love and Death (1975): The Early, Funniest One

Mar 6, 2015 Wade Sheeler 2

Woody Allen has been making movies for so long, most may not remember when his career was divided into just two distinct periods; the mature work and the early “funny ones.” This was circa 1980, when […]

Movies

A Film Romance: Woody Allen’s THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985)

Feb 23, 2015 Kyle Turner 0

The movies are a dream, where our unfulfilled desires come to life. The movies are a kind of wish fulfillment. Not least of all for Cecilia (Mia Farrow), a woman who lives her unfortunate existence […]

Movies

Out of the Past: Woody Allen, Nostalgia, the Meaning of Life, and Radio Days

Jul 25, 2014 Kyle Turner 2

“I firmly believe, and I don’t say this as a criticism, that life is meaningless.” — Woody Allen I don’t believe that for a second. Saying Woody Allen likes to be perceived as nihilistic is […]

Movies

Acceptance, Forgiveness and Love: The simple charms of BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (1984)

Jul 16, 2014 Wade Sheeler 2

During the early 1980s, Woody Allen was having a particularly fertile period. In the late ’70s, after hitting it out of the park with Annie Hall, forever cementing himself in the pantheon of romantic comedy […]

Movies

Leaning to the Left, the Right or The Front

May 29, 2014 Wade Sheeler 0

For some reason, which I can’t, to this day, completely understand, I have an obsessive fascination and disgust over one of our darker periods in mid-twentieth century history; the work of the House Un-American Activities […]

Opinion

Celluloid Dreams: Why We Love Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr.

Apr 22, 2014 Kyle Turner 1

Enough people have written extensively on Buster Keaton’s 1924 masterpiece Sherlock Jr., not to mention Andrew Horton’s book on the film, and certainly there have been a plethora of those who have written on the […]

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