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   madkevin to Calvin Rice   
   Re: Woody Allenisms   
   08 Jan 04 14:11:29   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.movies.past-films, rec.arts.movies.current-films   
   From: madkevin@golden.net   
      
   "Calvin Rice"  wrote in message   
   news:22680de.0401080217.22bedb65@posting.google.com...   
   > jdk00@yahoo.com (Johnnie Kendricks) wrote in message   
   news:<3ffca0ab.69729913@news.cis.dfn.de>...   
   > > You've obviously never seen Annie Hall.  Either that, or you are a   
   > > complete moron.   
   >   
   > Several Allen movies have been better than Annie Hall, IMO.  AH was the   
   > transition film from the old to the new Woody, but doesn't bear much   
   > watching anymore.  Manhattan is much more of an enduring classic, and   
   > other masterpieces like Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo,   
   > Radio Days, Hannah and her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, ... are   
   > all better than Annie Hall, IMO.   
   >   
   > -cr   
      
   There is little critical consensus that "Stardust Memories" is somehow a   
   masterpiece, unless by masterpiece you mean "the one that rips off Fellini more   
   than Bergman".   
      
   Kevin "Vitelloni" Cogliano   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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