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Freeman,
PLAY IT AGAIN SAM is one of my favorite Woody Allen films of
all time, along with LOVE AND DEATH. It doesn't get the respect it deserves from
most critics. To me it's a classic blend... hilarious in parts and poignant and
"meaningful" in others without getting too serious about itself as later Allen
films tended to do. As you remarked, it is set in San Francisco, unlike the bulk
of his later films which are almost always set in NYC and environs. I think
this helps. Although ANNIE HALL and MANHATTAN were undeniably great, the NYC
stuff of the last 20 years has a certain sameness about it for me, causing one
Allen film to blend into another in my mind, but his earlier films were set in a
variety of locations and I think that helps adds a unique feel to each. I'm sure
that in 1972 all of those posters were very affordable and readily available in
the movie memorabilia shops on the west coast. I remember buying a
couple during that time myself, paying something like $10 for a 1962 TIME
MACHINE... if only I'd known. The way the posters were shown in that film,
treated casually, with the bottom of the six sheet of CASABLANCA being crumpled
up by the bed pillows, is exactly how movie posters were viewed at the time...
temporary, even throw-away, pop wall art.
-- JR
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Subject: [MOPO] Remember The Discussion Of What Film Posters Are
Visible In A Movie? Freeman
here
This has nothing to do with anything but I am just
distracting before going back on Andale to throw even more good money at
Ebay with no tangible returns.......kind of like a strip club.
Anyway PLAY IT AGAIN SAM was on
HBO. What a hilarious film. But more amazing was the
posters, no doubt all real, none in frames and all over the
apartment of Woody Allen's here playing the most neurotic film critic on
the planet living in San Francisco (weird to see the
Pacific Ocean and not Central Park while Woody afoot.)
Anyway above breeze through to kitchen was THE JUNGLE
PRINCESS, TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD WOMAN, ALL THROUGH THE
NIGHT. In kitchen KEY LARGO,
near front door re-release 1sht
CASABLANCA. Far right of sofa on wall an original release
CASABLANCA insert. And tons of festival and rep house
calendars.
But the most jaw dropping piece, a
pinned up Six Sheet of MALTESE FALCON directly above his bed. With
bottom edges crimping from pillows hitting. Ouch.
Film shot in 1972 possibly these
pieces were still dirt cheap. Taped up, no
frame
Quickly wrote down one of my favorite bits of
dialogue for your Sunday chuckle
Allan
Felix: That's quite a lovely Jackson Pollack, isn't it?
Girl in museum: Yes, it is. Allan Felix: What does it say to you? Girl in museum: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation, forming a useless bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos. Allan Felix: What are you doing Saturday night? Girl in museum: Committing suicide. Allan Felix: What about Friday night? freeman fisher
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