Manhattan. Woody Allen. 1979. ⚃

Man, this is a dark transfer. Is it supposed to look like this? I got a DVD box set… should probably have waited for the 2K box set, but that still hasn’t happened? Oh, there’s two boxes with six movies each? But that project stalled in 2016. Allen isn’t the … most happening thing happening now, I guess.

[fifteen minutes pass]

Oh, right, this is the one that starts off with Allen (44) dating Meriel Hemingway (18).

[the end]

This movie is catnip for people who love Manhattan. All those shots of New York looking so romantic…

Diane Keaton is absolutely amazing in this. And I guess it’s one of Allen’s best performances as an actor? And, you know, Manhattan. And the relationship complications are probably the best plotted of any of his movies? But. I found it kinda hard to really connect with this movie, watching it now. I remember loving it when I’ve seen it before (probably a handful of times in the 80s), but I’m not really loving it now.

Annie Hall. Woody Allen. 1977. ⚄

[forty minutes pass]

I bought a Woody Allen box set the other year, and it’s taken me er years to get through it, so now I’m just gonna watch the final four movies.

It’s a concept.

I haven’t seen this movie since… I’m guessing the early 80s? I wonder where I saw it, though. VHS? Did they do a re-run at the cinema? Something?

I have no idea. I kinda remembered the … main digressive feeling of it all, but I didn’t remember that it’s essentially a Robert Altman movie, but with more jokes. And I love Robert Altman movies!

[the end]

But I was kinda vacillating between thinking “this should be funnier” and “aww, this is the best”.

Diane Keaton basically makes this movie worth watching.

R100. Hitoshi Matsumoto. 2013. ⚅

[the end]

I’m usually kinda liveblogging these things, but I was just flabbergasted by the originality of this movie. It’s like nothing else. I mean, on one level, it’s a goofy Japanese exploitation movie, but it’s just so… odd…

It’s riveting and very funny. I don’t even know what this is. Whenever I think I’ve figured it out, the movie’s ahead of me and morphs into something else.

Fantastic.