martedì 14 marzo 2017

Woody Allen, a cinema philosopher

                                                             Woody Allen
Woody Allen was born in 1935 in New York, is an actor, author, filmmaker, comedian, playwright, and musician. His career was started in the 50s writing little scripts for television. He's best known for his cinematography and for his average of making movies: almost one film a year. His best movies are "Annie Hall", "Manhattan", "Hannah and her Sisters" and also others important films. He won four Oscars: in 1978 for "Annie Hall" for best directing and best original Screenplay; in 1987 for "Hannah and her Sisters" for best original Screenplay and in 2012 for "Midnight in Paris", always for original Screenplay. So we understand that his screenplays are awesome because of his biting humor and for his passion for philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis and European cinema. The majority of his movies are milestones of cinema also thanks to the women he met and married in life who were his inspirations, especially Diane Keaton, considered the biggest love of his life, in fact "Annie Hall" was devoted to her (Annie is her second name and Hall is her real surname). An other woman who inspired him was Mia Farrow but I think the best inspiration was Diane Keaton because thanks to her he made his best movies and wrote his best screenplays.

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in a scene from "Annie Hall" (1977).

The main theme of his movies is love but we mustn't consider his films just like "love stories" because they're more than a simple love story, He also puts in his movies philosophy and literature's references ispiring on one of his idols, Ingmar Bergman, who inspired him for his dramatic movie Interiors (1978)..


Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in a cult scene from "Manhattan" (1979).

That's just a part of his awesome cinematography because if we had to talk about all his works we should have more time, We can say his movies consacrates him as one of the best filmmaker of all time,