In honor of Woody Allen directing his 40th film in Whatever Works (which I will have a review for soon), Entertainment Weekly ranked all of his films from best to worst, with the result being this list:
1. Manhattan (1979)
2. Annie Hall (1977)
3. Bananas (1971)
4. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
5. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
6. Match Point (2005)
7. What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
8. Zelig (1983)
9. Sleeper (1973)
10. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
11. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
12. Love and Death (1975)
13. Take the Money and Run (1969)
14. Stardust Memories (1980)
15. Small Time Crooks (2000)
16. Deconstructing Harry (1997)
17. Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
18. Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
19. Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
20. Cassandra’s Dream (2007)
21. Husbands and Wives (1992)
22. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
23. Interiors (1978)
24. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
25. Oedipus Wrecks from New York Stories (1989)
26. A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982)
27. Radio Days (1987)
28. Whatever Works (2009)
29. Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
30. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
31. Scoop (2006)
32. Alice (1990)
33. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
34. Another Woman (1988)
35. Melinda and Melinda (2004)
36. Shadows and Fog (1991)
37. Hollywood Ending (2002)
38. Celebrity (1998)
39. Anything Else (2003)
40. September (1987)
-I think it's a pretty good list overall, though I'd definitely move the list around a lot (and will put my own ranking in the blog at some point in the next day or so, depending on if I can see the last Woody Allen movie or two I still need to see)...what would your top 10 Woody Allen movies be?
I haven't seen all that many, but the ones I have seen I'll rank as follows:
ReplyDelete1. The Purple Rose of Cairo
2. Annie Hall
3. Crimes and Misdemeanors
4. Hannah and Her Sisters
5. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
That's it. I've seen most of "Take the Money and Run" as well (but not all of it), and would rank it ahead of "Barcelona", but not the others. I have to see "Broadway Danny Rose" and "Interiors" at some point as well.
1. Annie Hall
ReplyDelete2. Manhattan
3. Sleeper
4. Match Point
5. The Purple Rose of Cairo
6. Bananas
7. Hannah and Her Sisters
8. Radio Days
9. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
10. Crimes and Misdemeanors
-Robbie
1. Annie Hall
ReplyDelete2. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
3. The Purple Rose of Cairo
4. Match Point
5. Hannah and Her Sisters
6. Crimes and Misdemeanors
7. Sleeper
8. Manhattan
9. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...
10. Bananas
I was very tempted to put Vicky Cristina Barcelona first, because everytime I see that movie I just get ths warm and fuzzy feeling inside. It's not a masterpiece of a movie, but it's exceptional at what it tries to do.
1. Hannah and Her Sisters
ReplyDelete2. Manhattan
3. Annie Hall
4. Purple Rose of Cairo
5. Vicky Christina Barcelona
6. Husbands and Wives
7. Match Point
8. Crimes and Misdemeanors
9. Sleeper
Sadly I have only seen 9, he is easily in my top three of directors though, I cannot wait to see Whatever Works.
1. Hannah and Her Sisters
ReplyDelete2. Manhattan
3. Vicky Christina Barcelona
4. Bullets Over Broadway
5. Crimes and Misdemeanors
6. Scoop
7. Mighty Aphrodite
8. Annie Hall
Crimes and Misdemeanors
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Annie Hall
Match Point
Melinda vs. Melinda
Scoop
These are the six that I've seen, I've liked them all a good deal, but Crimes and Misdemeanors is my favorite by a fairly large margin (and I love Dostoevsky)
Am I the only one that thinks that Anything Else is better than it gets credit for?
ReplyDelete1. Hannah and Her Sisters
ReplyDelete2. Annie Hall
3. The Purple Rose of Cairo
4. Mighty Aphrodite
5. Vicky Cristina BarcelonaCrimes
6. Sleeper
7. Crimes and Misdemeanors
8. Love and Death
9. Manhattan
10. Bullets Over Broadway
here's my personal top 40, for debate:
ReplyDelete1.Annie Hall
2.Manhattan
3.Radio Days
4.Deconstructing Harry
5.Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex
6.The Purple Rose of Cairo
7.Sleeper
8.Match Point
9.Mighty Aphrodite
10.Vicky Cristina Barcelona
11.Hannah and her Sisters
12.Anything Else
13.Zelig
14.Crimes and Misdemeanors
15.Melinda and Melinda
16.Small Time Crooks
17.Broadway Danny rose
18.Scoop
19.Bananas
20.Celebrity
21.Bullets over Broadway
22.Whatever Works
23.Stardust Memories
24.Sweet and Lowdown
25.Husbands and Wives
26.Manhattan Murder Mystery
27.A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
28.Take the Money and Run
29.Cassandra's Dream
30.Love and Death
31.What's Up tiger Lily?
32.Interiors
33.Everyone Says I Love You
34.Alice
35.Another Woman
36.Oedipus Wrecks
37.September
38.Hollywood Ending
39.Shadows and Fog
40.The Curse of the Jade Scorpian
cool
ReplyDeleteindeed
ReplyDeleteeven the worst Woody flick is decent entertainment
ReplyDelete-Matt
agreed Matt
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