Tue 7 Jul 2009
Kevin Barnes on Woody Allen
Posted by Jeff Kuykendall under of Montreal
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From late high school to college, I went through a big Woody Allen phase. Rented all the films, drove from northern Wisconsin out to Minneapolis to see his latest on the big screen, read his stories, defended him passionately to friends, and so on. These days I’ve sort of moved on, as far as obsessive interests go - I will probably see Whatever Works when it comes out on DVD, and I’ve had Vicki Christina Barcelona, in its Netflix envelope, sitting next to my TV unwatched for about a month now - but reading Kevin Barnes’ lengthy love letter to Woody Allen’s ouvre, for The Quietus, really took me back to college days. I still have two box sets of Woody Allen films on the shelf (up through Radio Days), and he makes me want to break out Love and Death again. And I do want to say that I actually quite like The Curse of the Jade Scorpion…but Hollywood Ending is pretty terrible.
Here’s what Kevin thinks. Thanks to illuminated for the link.
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