What is your favorite Woody Allen Film?

[ronzo]

I'm sure it's been done before, but Bananas is on and I'm inspired.

I know it's tough...

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. Crimes and Misdemeanors and Annie Hall

a tie for me.

[bif]

19. 3-way tie

Annie Hall, Manhattan, & Radio Days. Couldn't choose a favorite.

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. No Sleeper? Husbands and Wives? Love and Death?

All great movies.

[grannylib]

5. Sleeper rocked...my favorite....

[Terran]

26. Mine too

Sleeper is his slapstick comedic height, the best of his early films.

[ronzo]

11. I know.

Alas, only ten spots... you know how it goes.

[smirkymonkey]

3. I love his older movies...

voted "Take the Money and Run", but you missed "Love and Death" which is a tie for me, and Bananas. Also, Sleeper should be on there too!

Whoops: just noticed you mentioned Bananas - sorry!

[BurtWorm]

4. Love and Death

A beautiful film and a hilarious parody of all Woody Allen holds dear: Russian literature, Russian cinema, existentialist philosophy, and Ingmar Bergman, in particular.

[meegbear]

12. My favorite Woody movie!

His takes on philosphy are hilarious!

[BurtWorm]

16. The slaptstick is very funny too!

I can make myself crack up thinking about the dueling scene or the assassination of "Napoleon."

"How ya doin', ya highness?"

[Iverson]

14. That's my vote too.

He also sends up T.S. Eliot in a scene where he's writing poetry by the fire.

[waywest]

6. Sleeper/Bananas

....born to be free, just like the fish in the sea!

[PurityOfEssence]

7. Stardust Memories

And I HATE Crimes and Misdemeanors...

[flamingyouth]

8. Play it Again Sam is one of my favorites

Also love Annie Hall, Hannah & Her Sisters, Sleeper, Love & Death, Manhattan...

[PurityOfEssence]

34. Woody didn't direct "Play it Again, Sam"

He wrote it, stars in it, and it's fabulous, but he didn't direct it. For this reason, it's no more a Woody Allen Movie than "What's New, Pussycat?" is.

(Herb Ross did.)

[kayleybeth]

9. Annie Hall

one of my favorite movies of all time.

[MissMillie]

10. Purple Rose of Cairo

that is Allen, isn't it?

[Barad Simith]

24. me too

[Brucey]

13. While Manhattan gets the most critical acclaim, and

Annie Hall has won the most awards, and Interiors is the most underrated, and Woody thinks his best is Stardust Memories, I still get an immense giggle from Love and Death.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

23. I love it when he's asked what his plans are for the war

I plan to flee.

[smirkymonkey]

32. F-L-E-A, Flea....

:)

[Bertha Venation]

15. Bullets Over Broadway (don't speak, don't speak)

Oscars for Dianne Weist (who ROCKS) and Chazz Palmienteri.

[Loonman]

17. The one where he plays the over-analyzing guy

With sexual hang-ups

[BurtWorm]

27. Refresh my memory...

It sounds so familiar, but I just can't place it. Was he sort of a nebbish in that one? Was he wearing glasses?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

28. No, it's the one where he was worried about his health

Maybe to the point of hypochondria.

[BurtWorm]

31. Oh yeah!

And he made all sorts of wisecracks that went over the heads of those shallow people he was dealing with! Great movie!

:thumbsup:

[Barad Simith]

29. was that 'Play It Again Sam'?

[Character Assassin]

18. Hannah and her Sisters. Hopelessly over-the-top romantic. That ending!

Could he possibly have made it any more perfect?

[LiviaOlivia]

20. Broadway Danny Rose

Hands down. Bittersweet and hysterically funny at the same time.

[Kolesar]

35. Absolutely!

That one is my favorite by far.

[blueraven95]

21. Everybody Says I Love You

or Sweet and Lowdown, or Small Time Crooks. I think his newer films are amazing

[DisgustipatedinCA]

22. Don't forget Sweet and Lowdown

I own 28 Woody Allen DVD's. They're the most treasured part of my otherwise unimpressive movie collection.

[ronzo]

30. Sweet and Lowdown is a good one.

I've only seen it once, but I was impressed.

:toast:

[bicentennial_baby]

25. What's up Tiger Lily?

I loooooove it! :bounce:

[Feanorcurufinwe]

33. Play it again, Sam.

I first saw it in the movie theatre on a double bill with 'Casablanca' playing first...

[HPLeft]

36. Love and Death

It was extremely funny, Diane Keaton is wonderful, and it allowed to me to make good use of the Russian Lit course that I took college. It's still my favorite Allen film, although there are a few that are close (Bananas, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters).

I'm finding, however, the post-Mia Farrow Woody hard to take. I'm thinking that Woody really should have sued his Freudian analyst for malpractice.