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Woody Allen is one of the most “prolific” Hollywood directors, who during his lifetime deserves the title of a classic of American cinema. Pictures of Woody Allen, no doubt, are included in the “golden” fund of world feature films.
Year after year, he shoots brilliant films that delight both critics and ordinary viewers. Despite his venerable age, Mr. Allen continues to make amazing films, distinguished by virtuoso acting, interesting plot and subtle humor.
All his works have their own unique style that distinguishes them from many other films.
10 Zelig | in 1983
This tape is deservedly included in the list of the most successful films of the master. A discreet black-and-white mockumentary about Leonard Zelig, a man who knew how to change his occupation, religion, and even race in no time just for the sake of gaining popularity with others.
Refined humor, with a strong semantic component make this picture one of the most stylistically flawless in the history of American cinema.
9. Parsing Harry | 1997
Harry Block is a lucky aspiring writer with obvious signs of neurosis, he, out of arrogance, spent the entire fee on a new book, which he can’t get started. In addition, the hero needs to solve another problem in his incomprehensible relationships with women and friends.
At this time, the girlfriend of the central character marries his friend. Another friend has a heart attack. The ex-wife, a psychoanalyst, does not give permission to take their common son to herself.
A similar situation brings Harry to the point that he decides to invite a girl of easy virtue, with the help of which he steals his own son …
8. The era of radio | 1987
This is a subtle comedy-reminiscence of the director of the film, about the 30s and 40s – a time when people were not poisoned by television, but spent a lot of time listening to the radio. It was the voices from the radio that told them the main news, which sometimes influenced the course of history.
The plot of the picture is based on the memories of a little boy Joe, who lives in a noisy Jewish family. All its members constantly quarrel and make noise, but radio is invisibly present in their reality, as the personification of this complex era filled with great events and no less great upheavals.
7. Hanna and her sisters | 1986
The main characters of the picture are three sisters: Hannah, Lee and Holly. Hanna is a popular actress, an exemplary mother, a sympathetic and caring sister, an intelligent, well-mannered and beautiful woman; Li is the mistress of an elderly artist; Holly dreams of a brilliant acting career, but for now she has to earn a living as a cook at receptions.
The measured and understandable existence of three sisters is broken at the moment when Hannah’s husband Elliot suddenly realizes that he is in love with her sister Lee. He does not find the strength to admit this for a long time, and even after Lee, for the sake of Elliot, breaks off relations with his lover, the man does not dare to divorce his wife …
6. Bullets over Broadway | 1994
The action of the picture takes place in New York in the 1920s. An aspiring talented playwright puts all his strength into pushing his play. This is not so easy to do, because the production needs money. After a long search, he still finds an investor, a well-known mafioso in criminal circles, who agrees to give money for the production, but on the condition that his young kept woman becomes the leading role.
The girl loves the theater and dreams of becoming an actress, but she is completely mediocre and very capricious. The author of the play will have to make a choice: put on a play with a bad actress in the lead role, or refuse a tempting offer from a gangster …
5. Crimes and misdemeanors | 1989
The successful Dr. Rosenthal has everything a person needs to be happy: a large respectable house, a caring wife, children and many good friends.
However, he cannot fully enjoy his measured existence because of his ex-lover Dolores, who for some reason decided that for her sake the hero would leave his wife and children …
4. Husbands and wives | 1992
Tragicomedy filmed according to all the rules of the inimitable Woody Allen. The central figure of the picture is a neurotic writer, immersed headlong in family conflicts. At some point, he and his wife become aware that their old friends are going to divorce soon. This news becomes a shock for them, besides, a crisis has clearly emerged in their relationship.
Woody Allen considers this picture one of the best in his filmography, since, according to him, all those unusual innovative ideas that he carried out while working on the picture were a success.
The film was shot entirely on a handheld camera, which quite often captured the actors from behind or completely lost sight of them. In addition, during editing, the famous director could afford to cut off this or that scene in the middle of an important action for the characters.
3. Vicky Cristina Barcelona | 2008
Vicky and Cristina decide to go to Barcelona. Vika has a fiancé, while Christina, on the contrary, is looking for adventure. After some time, the girls meet a Spanish artist.
The man immediately tells the girls that they are equally attractive to him, and that he would like to spend the night with both of them.
Vicki is discouraged by this situation, but even more surprised that Christina decides to spend the whole weekend with this strange type. However, the most interesting thing begins when the ex-wife of a lustful Spaniard appears on the stage …
2. Match point | 2005
Chris, a well-known tennis player in the past, is going through a difficult life period. Having finished his sports career, he is trying to find himself, and suddenly Nola appears on his way, whose image on the screen was embodied by the charming Scarlett Johansson. This is a typical heartbreaker, from which you should expect only trouble. Despite this, Chris loses his head from love, and the girl, at this time, begins to have an affair with his friend, Tom …
1. Midnight in Paris | 2011
A writer and hopeless romantic, fascinated by the era of the 1920s, comes to Paris with his girlfriend and finds himself in the past. He manages to meet great personalities who lived in the first half of the twentieth century.
People then were not yet “poisoned” by the benefits of civilization known to his contemporaries – they are simpler than the contemporaries of the protagonist, romantic and love life. And the more he gets acquainted with all the charms of that time, the less he wants to return to the present …