Woody Allen/Vineland/Kissinger

[April Phillips]

I have to disagree on one point.  I thought Deconstructing Harry was quite 
good.  It was edgier than anything he'd done before or since (which upset a 
lot of people) and the idea of an author who could only survive inside the 
universe of his own creation was interesting.

Match Point was truly awful.  It was much better the first time I saw it as 
Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Carvill" <JCarvill at algsoftware.com>
To: "April Phillips" <apes1 at cox.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:05 AM
Subject: RE: Woody Allen/Vineland/Kissinger


Ah yes, we longtime Woody fans have suffered a *lot* over the years. Don't 
think he's done anything really worthwhile since Crimes & Misdemeanors. 
Despite what the critics led us to believe, 'Match Point' was rubbish. Of 
his more recent films, I suppose if I had to pick I'd take Anything Else, if 
only for Christina Ricci's performance. Melinda & Melinda was execrable.

But that Woody Allen 'Young Kissinger' made me laugh out loud when I first 
read Vineland. A good example of how Pynchon takes TV and 'low culture' and 
makes something 'greater than the sum of its parts' from it. And of course 
it's a reference (intentional or no) to Annie Hall.




>From: April Phillips [mailto:apes1 at cox.net]

>The real harrowing news is that Woody recycled old scripts and caricatured
>his old shtick in 'Scoop.'  "Old" Woody I can live with.  Clichéd Woody is
>too much for a longtime fan like me to take.

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