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Considering Woody Allen's popular- ity, it's amazing he's been able to keep his filmmaking territory all to himself. After all, his neurotic, paranoid New Yorker persona isn't registered at the patent office. Any bright college philo- sophy major with a keen wit has the ability to turn the texts of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Hegel and Schopenauer inside-ou-t by applying them to the real f, world. The average person's concern with greater metaphysical questions end when they become accountants or .J piano tuners, for sanity's sake. Allen lias applied his deceptively formulaic approach to any number of genres since 19G!); science fiction ("Sleeper"), the Neil Simon-typ- e comedy ("Play it again, Sam"), film noir ("Broadway Danny Rose"), fantasy ("The Purple Rose of Cairo") and most recently, the domestic melodrama, "Hannah and Her Sisters."

Movie Review

Allen does more than just parodies, which saves him from being an overly sentimental version of Mel Brooks. Allen knows too much to slide over the surface of a genre and he's too cynical to take even his romantic nihilism too seriously. For awhile it was "hip" to be like Woody Allen, to be an intellectual, vulnerable male with all your salary invested in psychoanalysis. Now, in the age of Rambo, Allen has taken the emphasis off himself in his of films. "Interiors" and "The Purple Courtesy Orion Pictures Rose of Cairo" excluded him entirely Farrow, Hershey and Wiest portray the sisters In Woody Allen's new 'Hannah and "Hannah and Her sisters" casts film, and Her Sisters.' him as an interesting bit player, like a Rosencrantz or Guildenstern, provid- in and out of each pie, scurrying others creating art, of being artistic, of being death is an imposing wraith, but life is Woody Allen films). The scene in which ing comic relief from the family melo- that one in the emotional lives, glitch auteur and maverick and successful all what happens to you while you wait. Allen's character, faced with the chasm drama and setting the would have been disasterous. Allen philosophical, machinery at once. could do sitcoms and Sure, maybe Nietzsche and Kierke- of eternity, opts for Catholicism, is moral tone. The of the film is plot engagingly they'd come off like Renoir, Cukor, Fel- gaard are right, but sex is more fun. funnier than anything he's written in a Allen casts few in "Han- elaborate because of surprises simple, only the lini and Douglas Sirk all rolled into Sure, love is fragile and tenuous, but long while. nah." His ensemble is familiar of it (Mia quantity characters incorporates. one. What's occasionally irritating is death would be a lot harder to take At the end of Allen's "Annie Hall" Farrow as Hannah, Tony Roberts) and Hannah is the successful Allen's domineering, knowledge of this fact. Some- without some good solid blows from the main character tells a story about a when it isn't irri-tating- familiar, it's older forced into ly predictable. sister, nurturing her times his philosophical asides are Eros and Cupid. man who walks into his office Allen has the same eye for two sisters and to analyst's interesting enough guilt power predictable, but only in the For Woody Allen fans none of this is to complain of an love faces that Fellini has, seduc- the American unsatisfactory finding average family. context of Woody Allen. If this were a news is hot as the next alien birth on affair with a woman who thinks she's a tive beauty in the most eccentric of In and out of this walk husbands, Spielberg film, all life in the film would the cover of the Weekly World News, chicken. facial features. The off-han- only real surprise lovers, senile dead for the d artists, stop comments on but his arguments are always more "Why do you keep back to in casting is Michael Caine as Han- of from going parents (show people course, Nietzsche, life, death, Catholicism, convincing and more sublime, more her?" The asks the man. nah's husband, Elliot. Caine is such a the old business analyst school), partners, Judaism and Krishna that litter this mature and filled with conviction. "Because I need the The man matter-of-fac- t actor eggs." casual, that it children, secretaries, theatrical direc- film. If it seems as I've seems the though missed replies. intricacies of a Woody Allen tors, rock bands and enough stylistic But in "Hannah and Her the some Sisters," of the beauties the film has to Why do we keep going back to Woody film would bore him. devices to raise "Hannah and Her Sis- can audience just relax and know offer in this review, I'll try to sum up Allen films, if are in But everyone is picture perfect. The ters" from melodrama to art. where they many ways exactly Woody Allen is taking here. The filmwork is immaculate and predictable? plot of the film involves so many peo-- Woody Allen is always conscious of them and how he'll get there. Sure, it's in color (always a surprise lately in We need the eggs.

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