Woodython Five (12): Woody’s Round-Up!
I’m not really known as a ‘completer finisher’, I’m more of an ‘ideas man’, who throws random thoughts into the ring in the hope that one eventually takes hold and […]
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Woodython Five (11) – For Hire
“…it seemed to me like a very standard film persona for a comedian. Someone who is a physical coward, who lusts after women, who is good hearted but ineffectual and […]
Woodython Five (9): Woody’s Women
There are two enduring cliches that appear in reviews of Woody’s output. The first has peppered critique at various points over the past twenty years: “a return to form”. Its […]
Desert Island Films #89 – The Dirk Malcolm Alternative
Originally posted on Head In A Vice:
Dirk from The Dirk Malcolm Alternative has kindly submitted his Desert Island Films. Please read on for his choices and reasons, and be sure…
Woodython Five (6) – New York Stories
“I not only was totally in love with Manhattan from the earliest memory, I loved every single movie that was set in New York, every movie that began high above […]
Woodython Five (4) – Mia
“She’s a good actress. She can play many different roles. She has a very good range. She can play serious roles, she can play comic roles. She’s photogenic , very […]
STARBURST MEMORIES – Woody Allen on Woody Allen
At the beginning of this year’s Woodython, I promised to provide a review of some of the Woody literature available in the Dirk archive. Woody Allen on Woody Allen is […]
Woodython Five (3) – Crimewave
On Friday it was the monthly Dirk club, when Dom-Dirk and I pour us a single goblet of wine each and sit passing judgement on the great and the good. […]
Starburst Memories: Dread & Superficiality: Woody Allen as a Comic Strip by Stuart Hample
This handsome book is a collection of the ‘Inside Woody Allen’ cartoon strips that were syndicated daily between 1976 – 1984. It was endorsed by Woody and he provided jokes […]
DOM: Annie Hall (Allen, US, 1977)
Alvy: ‘It’s all mental masturbation.’ Annie: ‘Oh well, now we’re getting to a subject you know something about!’ Alvy, ‘Hey, don’t knock masturbation, its sex with someone I love.’ When […]
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