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| ACTORS: | Woody Allen |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| MANUFACTURER: | Mgm/Ua Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Box set |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 6 |
| UPC: | 027616860507 |
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Customer Reviews of The Woody Allen Collection, Set 3
The heat is on--the last wave of Woody's films arrive on DVD Well, after the lukewarm and definately standoffish reception of the 2nd Woody Allen Collection (which contained five of his most serious movies), the pressure was apparently on to release the 3rd, and final, remaining set of his films. These are some of Mr. Allen's very finest works, including two of my personal favorites, "Zelig" and "Broadway Danny Rose." ... Most of these films are considered classics and almost all of them are usually sited as Woody Allen at his very best. The only exception may be that of "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy." His first film with .. Mia Farrow, this was also only his second period film after the 19th-century Russian "Love And Death" ..., but one that was a portent of the many to come ... Woody had always considered making a comedy of manners and so, after a year off following the lackluster ... release of "Stardust Memories," this came out. However, it turned out that this was an even bigger bomb than "Stardust Memories" (one of my favorites, incidentally), and still remains one of his two biggest financial disasters.... The film does have it's merits ..., but, on the whole, it is usually ignored by even some of Woody's most adamant fans. And so, when these finally make it to the shelves, all of Woody's films but "Husbands And Wives" will be available on DVD. ...
The Best of Woody?
This is the third release of Woody Allen's pictures and this is a welcome set, focusing on his most developed period. The set includes the wonderful PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO and HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, my favorites as well as the great RADIO DAYS, ZELIG and BROADWAY DANNY ROSE. The only underperformer in the group is A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY. All the films have great widescreen transfers and nice soundtracks. It's great to have this stuff available to us!
Wonderful survey of Woody's 80's years
This edition of the Woody Allen Collection is probably the best of the three box sets recently issued by MGM DVD. While Woody is probably best known for his early-70s slapstick comedies ("Sleeper," "Bananas") and his revolutionary reconstruction of the comedy with "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan," three of his absolute best films appear in this set. "Zelig," whose technological advances foreshadow those of 1994's Academy Award favorite "Forrest Gump" by nearly ten years, is easily the better film, and the three years Woody spent making this film seems well worth the effort. About a "human chameleon," Leonard Zelig, whose insecure shapeshifting act ranges from pure novelty to affinities with fascism, is as funny as it is sharp. The best film in the set, "The Purple Rose of Cairo," also foreshadows the postmodern nostalgia films of the late 1990s, particularly "Pleasantville." Set during the Depression, this film is about a woman trapped in an awful marriage and an equally dissatisfying job. She escapes the misery of her life by watching films. She watches the same film over and over, and one of the characters comes off the screen to intervene in her life. A wonderful, complex and poignant examination of the conflation between fiction and reality, "The Purple Rose of Cairo," though a sad and dramatic film, is as powerful as anything Woody Allen has directed. The third wonderful film here is "Hannah and Her Sisters," which won three Oscars, is a return to the ensemble sensibility Woody perfected in "Manhattan." "Broadway Danny Rose" is probably the best of the remaining titles--about a hardworking theatrical manager who is failure at his work specifically because he cares so much about the personal wellbeing of his clients. Mia Farrow gives one of her best performances here. "Radio Days" is a narratively complex film about a Jewish family from Rockaway in the 40s whose lives are informed and entertained by the radio (just as we are entertained by the television and the internet today). The one weak film in the set is "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy," which is very similar to the much better Ingmar Bergman film "Smiles of a Summer Night." It involves three couples together in the country one weekend who all seem to be paired with the wrong lover. This set shows an intoxicating run of quality films by a director at the peak of his powers.