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Banquet on wheels

growabrain — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:40:08 -0800

The intro scene to 'Midnight in Paris' (2011. SLYT)

Every Woody Allen Movie

Egg Shen — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:19:07 -0800

A time slip in "Midnight in Paris"

mark7570 — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 08:13:17 -0800

Woody Allen's 2011 movie Midnight in Paris tells the story of a modern-day character repeatedly finding himself in the 1920s, in a kind of temporary time travel. As it turns out, this is a real-life phenomenon known as a time slip. Perhaps the most famous documented case was from 1901, at the Palace of Versailles. Known as the Moberly–Jourdain incident, it's named after the two women who had the experience while visiting Versailles. After getting lost on their tour they found themselves in an unfamiliar part of the grounds and felt a growing sense of unease. They saw several people who they believed were historical figures - possibly including Marie Antoinette - before finding their way back to the tour group. In 1911 they published An Adventure, a book recounting their experience. Wikipedia reports that the book and the authors were widely ridiculed. A 1981 TV movie, Miss Morison's Ghosts, depicted the incident and its effect on the women's lives. Interestingly, Midnight in Paris references the incident explicitly in a scene in which a character finds himself in a time slip in Versailles.

writer/director/actor

kliuless — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 06:09:37 -0800

Louis C.K. on eating pressure and providing an alternative to The Man - "I ask him to think about what he really needs; when he tells me, I give him a little more. It buys me goodwill with this person; I feel good about what I'm paying them. I like to give people a little more than they want, and I like to ask people for a little less than they're willing to give."

It's all so goddamn interesting. It really is. I love knowing why I was able to sell out in one town, and why I wasn't in another town. I love knowing what goes into everything—the economics, the technical aspect, and how to create the ideas in the show. It's great. If you can have access to all of that, why the fuck would you not want to know? I just love learning. I think learning is how you live.

Why 'Louie' Is So Excellent—And Why It's Getting Better Faster Than Other Shows (Slate) Older, Mellower, but Still Woody: "I do carry an iPhone because I want to have a phone. But more important, on the iPhone my assistant put a few hundred jazz records, and when I travel and practice the clarinet I used to take all this equipment with me. Now, I just have earphones and I can practice the clarinet effortlessly with this thing. I have never sent an email in my life. I never received an email. I have two buttons I can touch—the weather and the Huffington Post." Interview with Patrick Wang of "In the Family" [1,2,3]

"It's amazing how many voices you will encounter trying to convince you to make a bad movie," says Wang. "They say take that wonderful and unique thing you have and turn it into garbage because the people love garbage and what's safer than garbage and we all live in garbage anyway." So amidst these pressures, you must defend original work, he says: "You need someone to say, 'Enough already.' I got tired of waiting for someone, so I said, 'Enough already.' "

(NYT/Ebert)

My worst one was right on the money.

Apropos of Something — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:38:13 -0800

Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion - er, no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin ... New York was his town, and it always would be.

Alvy's back

oldleada — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:14:48 -0800

Vincent Canby never saw a W o o d y A l l e n [nyt reg. req.] movie he didn't greet with a superlative. The director's new Melinda and Melinda opened in Brooklyn yesterday. Critical reaction has ranged from lukewarm to quite negative. Alternet and n+1 call this a case of miscastration. Is the shark dead or has it been jumped? [n+1 and suicide girls interview via gawker.]