the thread for NY comedy filmmakers (and others') homages to peak-period Woody Allen

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reading about Louis CK's new film made me think of how many of these there are, practically a subgenre unto itself:
- When Harry Met Sally (the earliest one of these?)
- Top Five
- Frances Ha (feel like a bunch of Baumbach's fit here but this one is the most on-the-nose)
- various episodes of Girls (pick one)

extra points if it's shot in black-and-white

Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 September 2017 15:42 (seven years ago)

Trying to think if Polanski has anything

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 September 2017 15:43 (seven years ago)

Carnage!

Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 September 2017 15:44 (seven years ago)

granted there's only a few laughs in that one, I wouldn't really call it a comedy

Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 September 2017 15:45 (seven years ago)

Wasn't there one....actually come to think of it I think jack Nicholson was behind the camera

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 September 2017 15:49 (seven years ago)

Nicholson's only directed four films, three of which predate Allen's peak period and the last of which was The Two Jakes in 1990, so not sure what you're thinking of (Carnal Knowledge maybe?)

Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:00 (seven years ago)

Heh

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:02 (seven years ago)

Carnage is most definitely a comedy/satire, tho a semi-botch of a film. Not really Allenesque though (playwright is a French woman, don't know if she's a fan).

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:08 (seven years ago)

Ed Burns is probably the worst at this, starting with The Brothers McMullen... tho I didn't subject myself to the follow-ups.

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:12 (seven years ago)

yeah I wouldn't argue too hard for it. I was trying to unravel the mysteries of darraghmac's thinking, probably a futile exercise.

xp

Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:12 (seven years ago)

Heh

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:29 (seven years ago)

set in my town but Miami Rhapsody is drenched in Allen.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:30 (seven years ago)

well, Mia Farrow's in it so that counts for something

Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:35 (seven years ago)

Louis CK just made a very blatant one?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-louis-ck-film-20170910-story.html

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:35 (seven years ago)

That's mentioned in OP no

streeps of range (wins), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:41 (seven years ago)

ulp

In the film, C.K. plays a successful TV producer whose 17-year-old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) begins a relationship with Malkovich's aged director. It spawns a kind of crisis for C.K.'s character, who has his own issues with how he treats women.

The Guardian called it "a very funny and recklessly provocative homage to Woody Allen, channeling his masterpiece 'Manhattan' and brilliantly finding a fictional way to tackle his personal reputation head-on."

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:42 (seven years ago)

Btw Οὖτις darragh is referring to the fact that Polanski raped a 13-year-old at Nicholson's house

streeps of range (wins), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:43 (seven years ago)

Wait I mean

lads

streeps of range (wins), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:43 (seven years ago)

ah, didn't know the location of that incident

Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:44 (seven years ago)

The Paul Rudd segment from The Ten, iirc?

Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:44 (seven years ago)

"I Love You, Daddy" sounds pretty gross idk if I want to see that

Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:45 (seven years ago)

The Ten

wtf how have I never heard of this before!

Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:47 (seven years ago)

Wait I mean

lads

― streeps of range (wins), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:43 (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:49 (seven years ago)

ah, didn't know the location of that incident

also confused by Polanski rape predating Allen's peak period but whatever, typical darragh derail

Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:52 (seven years ago)

Modern Romance

new noise, Friday, 15 September 2017 02:57 (seven years ago)

i've been watching Mr. Show and halfway through the Nostradamus skit it goes into a full Woody Allen pastiche complete w black and white "archival" footage and title cards

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 September 2017 13:57 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

wow just watched "The Ten" and the whole thing feels like a pastiche of Allen's *earlier* comedic style - heavily endebted to the structure and tone of stuff like Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, Sleeper, Love and Death, his NY Stories segment. It isn't really much good but I was surprised to see Wain & co. go so hard in that direction.

Οὖτις, Friday, 29 September 2017 16:15 (seven years ago)


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