ART IS OBJECTIVE, NOT SUBJECTIVE:

I've Seen Every Woody Allen Movie: Here's what I've learned. (Juliet Lapidos, March 31, 2011, Slate)

Still of Woody Allen in Annie Hall. Woody AllenLike Ian Fleming and P.G. Wodehouse, Woody Allen returns compulsively to the same creative ground. In Allen's case, it's ground trod by anxious, well-to-do white people, who swap partners and drop cultural references in an empty, godless universe. The extent of the similarities from one film to the next is remarkable. It's not just that he recasts actors or that he revisits the themes of domestic boredom and cosmic insignificance. He reuses the same font, EF Windsor Light Condensed, for his titles and credits. He recycles character types: the neurotic Jewish New Yorker (the filmmaker's spit and image), the adulterous intellectual, the hypochondriac intellectual. He recycles plot lines. He even recycles punch lines.

No one wants to hear you talk about yourself all the time. He's someone we laugh at, not with.

Posted by oj at April 3, 2011 10:34 AM
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