The Director's Chair: W(oo)dy Allen has something to say to you.

 

As you may or may not know, PBS released another great

American Masters Series on Woody Allen last week. Anyone see it?

I would have thought he would have been a great director to tell the story

of Marilyn Monroe, with Scarlett Johansson leading.

My two cents on the bizz.

Anyways,

It was in university when I finally figured out who was the underlying inspiration to anything somewhat funny in contemporary comedy. The Master of Despair has about 89 movies and doesn't seem like he's slowing down. I will not cover all of his movies, but most likely Woody's early funny ones, and his later films that did well over in Europe as opposed to America. 

Here's a great movie done in 1989 with Jean Luc Godard,

French New Wave Master. I got in an unfortunate argument with a

video salesman about Godard's importance to film. I cursed his video shop! This was in the 

summer, not the holidays, so I'm clear.

Without further ado, 

Woody Allen

"Masterbation and Art, the two things I am a complete expert at."

For the french immersion students...

Woody's best in my opinion.