Master of intellectual comedy: the 10 best films of Woody Allen

Master of intellectual comedy: the 10 best films of Woody Allen
 Woody Allen is known primarily for his films, which can be snapped up for a quote. Numerous allusions to literary classics, intellectual humor - all these are filled with comedy master.
 1. Midnight in Paris, 2011
At this point, the last published in Woody Allen movie rentals. In 2012 he received the "Oscar" and "Golden Globe" for best screenplay.
The script is really good-looking, the kind that "simple and tasteful." A young couple, the writer and his wife, arrives in Paris - the cultural Mecca of Europeans. He airy-fairy romantic, haunting historical places, where he once spent their evenings Salvador Dali, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and ... gets to him straight in the 1920s.

2. Zelig, 1983
Allen likes to experiment with genres. This - the movie game. Viewer are mockumentary footage of some of the world celebrities, guy by the name of Zelig. By itself, it is not remarkable, but it has one unique quality. Talking to people, he is reincarnated in them and then becomes a dictator, the psychiatrist, the African-American ...

3. Annie Hall, 1977
A number of critics consider this film the best work of Allen. He has won four awards "Oscar". The film is not as such a rigorous development of the plot. This film - the life, the life of the author. And in the movie he is in life, mocks him, watching refleksiruet. Actors - Allen himself, who plays, in fact, himself, and Diane Keaton - a woman with whom Allen and Allen, director-hero was having an affair.

4. Love and Death, 1975
One of the first films of the director, however, worthy of a place in the top ten. Intelligent comedy with lots of allusions to the Russian classics (Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky). Humor sometimes on the verge of falling: this can only afford a connoisseur of literature, and Kojima himself is Allen.

5. Manhattan, 1979
Again, intellectuals, "artists", among them familiar from the film "Annie Hall," "yourself": Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. Zhin New York Manhattan boils, but the gloss of Bohemia - a cover of inner emptiness ...

6. Match Point, 2005
Greatly modernized allusion to Dostoevsky, with his "Crime and Punishment". Twists and turns in the plot does not resemble the classic version, but very subtly Allen reveals the inner drama of the hero.

7. Sweet and Lowdown, 1999
Musician, music connoisseurs and lovers to play with reality, Allen decides in this film to combine their hobbies. It shows the life of a fictional musician - the legendary Emmet Ray in the early 30s.

8. Bullets Over Broadway, 1994
Again, bohemians in the Woody Allen film. At this time, shows a different side: the playwright, in search of funds for the staging of his play, stumbles upon a gangster who is willing to help ... on their own terms.

9. Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986
The relationship of the three sisters - intellectuals and art lovers. Husbands, lovers - all mixed up in this bohemian family.

10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2008
Easy and delicious as wine, a film about the journey of two American women in Spain. There they meet a hot Antonio and his temperamental ex-wife. There are few typical allenovskogo humor, but a lot of sun, feelings, beauty. The film leaves a very pleasant aftertaste.

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