Zelig
Part of the Early Woody Allen
| Director: | Woody Allen |
|---|---|
| Certificate: | BBFC PG |
| Length: | |
| Format: | Other |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
- Year:
- 1983
- Running time:
- 84 minutes
- Studio:
- MGM
- Territory:
- Worldwide
- Directed by:
- Woody Allen
- Starring:
- Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Buckwalter, Martin Chatinover, Stanley Swerdlow, Paul Nevens, Howard Erskine, Ralph Bell, Richard Whiting, Will Hussong, Stephanie Farrow, Susan Sontag, Saul Bellow, Ed Herlihy (voice), Patrick Horgan (narrator).
Leonard Zelig, the "human chameleon", is profiled in this mock-documentary. Technically advanced and beautifully shot by Gordon Willis. Director Woody Allen appears as Zelig in scenes that purport to be vintage newsreel clips of the 1920s and 1930s, but are actually clever recreations, "aged" and scratched-up Citizen Kane-style by special-effects maestros Joel Hynick, Stuart Robinson and R. Greenberg Associates. Worth remembering this appeared a year before Hollywood was wowed by mockumentary This is Spinal Tap. A gem of a film.
Other films in the Early Woody Allen :
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Film: Manhattan
13 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
A divorced New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead.Starring:Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Mariel Hemingway
16
Film: Sleeper
16 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Woody Allen pulls out all the comic stops here, utilizing everything from Orwellian social satire, sci-fi movie parody, Harold Lloyd-style pratfalls,and a scene involving giant fruits and vegetables that has to be the funniest sight gag ever committed to celluoid. And join us before the film at about 7:15pm to hear Yoshie Kawamura play for us on the piano and set the mood for Woody.
20
Film: Play It Again, Sam
20 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Based on his own stage play about a film critic with seduction problems who takes Bogart as a role model - this shows Allen at his best, exploring the gap between movie escapism and reality. It's not really as pretentious as that with plenty of good sight gags and one-liners. The working out of the parallels with Casablanca are masterly. Unusual in that Allen is here directed by Herbert Ross .
23
Film: Love And Death
23 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
In part a homage to all things Russian especially the literature of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, in part a reprise of the gags of earlier successful Allen movies. Allen siezes the opportunity for sumptuous epic cinematography especially in the battle scenes where Love and Death makes effective use of its technical qualifications. The fact that it looks like an awards-baiting historical epic make Allen’s usual antics look sillier and funnier.
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Film: Annie Hall
30 Mar 2014, 7:30 p.m.
'Filled with poignant performances and devastating humor, Annie Hall represents a quantum leap for Woody Allen and remains an American classic.' Rotten Tomatoes. Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer (Allen) reflects on his past romance with tightly-wound WASP singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton, née Hall). Funny, wry, tender and fashion-setting Annie Hall beat Star Wars to the Oscar for Best Picture. And stay by after the film for a short piano recital by Yoshie Kawamura: after Woody a little musical indulgence with some Chopin…