Woody Allen/Vineland/Kissinger

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

The Kristy Alley sequences from DC Harry are about the only time the Woodman really approached the intensity of Bergman's "hysterical" sequences. I liked the coldness of "Match Point", but the 22 seconds I've seen of "Scoop" are downright frightning.
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From: "April Phillips" <apes1 at cox.net>
> 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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> 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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