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Woody Allen: Greatest Director?

HOWARD MEGDAL: Don’t get me wrong: Woody Allen’s last decade has not been his strongest. Only Vicky Cristina Barcelona is likely to make its way into the pantheon of his films, while some others- I’m looking at you, Anything Else- are best forgotten entirely.
THOMAS DELAPA: Allen is definitely in the pantheon in American film, but “finest”? That’s a huge statement. Better than Orson Welles, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese and perhaps the greatest director ever, Anglo-American Alfred Hitchcock?

Two Views of Whatever Works

HOWARD MEGDAL: Whatever Works didn’t.

AKIE BERMISS: All in all, it was a great film. And I DO mean film. Not a movie. Allen is a composer and his compositions betray his talent and dedication to craft. Much of what we find to be funny today owes its success to Allen’s wild invention days of the 70s. His anti-hero schlubbs, his idiosyncratic way of making New York a character in the story, his snappy dialogue — and on and on.

Arrested Development Movie: Michael Cera: Come On!/Movies are what whores do for money

HOWARD MEGDAL:

I want to get my biases right out on the table: I am a huge Arrested Development fan and a huge Michael Cera fan.

But let’s make this clear: if you are the reason there is no Arrested…