Woody Allen's "Sleeper"... worth watching today.

[speedoo]

It's just now ending on TCM and I have enjoyed it very much. A very under rated early Woody Allen film and perhaps the one that has the most significant message for us. That message being, the danger of an oppressive government. Told in a very funny way, of course.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070707/

[momophile]

1. also some of Colorado's greatest architecture

in my opinion...

[speedoo]

4. I agree.

Do you happen to know which part of Colorado was the filming location? Did not see much of the Rockies so I am guessing the eastern part of the state.

[momophile]

7. most of them are right along the Front Range

a couple in Boulder, several in Denver, and the main house, the Sculptured House, is in Genesee just west of Denver up I-70 and is considered one of Colorado's main landmarks.

If you want to know more, I'll dig up an article I have about the architecture of the movie.

[speedoo]

8. Yes, please.

Would love to read the article, thanks.

[momophile]

10. ok... I finally found it

I used the article in a couple of graduate papers including my masters thesis. I'll pm it to you.

[tigereye]

2. that movie has held up well!

still quite relevant!

[cuke]

3. What a neat idea!!

I haven't seen it in a long time, but from what I can remember it should be fun to watch again, and I usually don't like re-seeing movies

[Bennyboy]

5. My favorite Woody Allen Movie....

The Orb! The Orgasmatron!

[Call Me Wesley]

6. Two words:

Greenwich Village.

There, I said it. ;)

Great movie! I just recently watched it again and I'll watch it again afterwards. Stop or I shoot the nose!

[bridgit]

9. Sleeper's way funny!!

:thumbsup:

[Richard Steele]

11. "This is 'tobacco'. It's one of the healthiest things you can put into your body."

SLEEPER will always have a special place in my heart.

I saw it for the first time when I was spending 2 weeks
visiting at my cousin's house in the summer of 1977.
They were "RICH" by my standards- they had 32 channels of
Cable TV, and my cousin had his own 12" B&W TV in his room.

I waatched "Sleeper" on that TV- they had seen it before.

3 days later that same week, his folks proposed that we go
to see a movie.

They were reading movie reviews & discussing the merits of
various films when a small, two-word "opening tonight" ad
caught my nine-year-old eye, and I DEMANDED that that was
the movie we needed to see.

They relented in the face of my loud childish CERTAINTY,
and we went to see that small, unknown movie, the night it opened,
against their "better judgement".

It was called "Star Wars". You may have heard of it.

I remember "Sleeper" because I saw it the first week I watched "cable TV",
the week I was "5th row center" at OPENING NIGHT for Star Wars.