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Blue Jasmine (2013) Story & Direction: Woody Allen We were just discussing the other day whether a person's work should be assessed by his work alone. Quite often than not, personal actions, inactions, mistakes and crimes are used with vile against their ingenious work of art. Just because of Hitler's nefarious acts, are we going to downplay his picturesque painting of Vienna? How about his push for advancement in German technology? Then there is Roman Polanski with the cast of black cloud overshadowing his deeds. What about all the prodigies, geniuses and the insane who are a separated alone by a fine line who had behaviours clashing with norms of society? Woody Allen, often frowned upon by the world at large for the alleged misconduct with his step daughter, has come up yet with another winner. It has all the trademarks of Allen's typical brand of comedy. Cate Blanchett, gives a Oscar deserved performance of downtrodden wife of a crooked businessman in verge of ...

This 1977 Woody Allen film is the typical story in typical Woody Allen style of a typical insecure nervous guy Alvy Singer @ Max (Woody Allen), a comedian, monologuing about his frustrating life and his break-up with his girlfriend, Annie Hall. He starts talking about his childhood life living under a roller coaster and his perennially squabbling parents and his weird Jewish relatives.  Max, after 2 failed marriages, try to make it with a struggling singer, Annie (Diane Keaton). The two are equally pathologically pessimistic on everything. They find a psychoanalytical explanation to their every dissatisfaction. Even I would get irritated with his constant each others' squealing and whining if I were in their shoes. He makes everything look complicated and so does she. After living together for some time in New York, he manages to give her confidence to sing and jump start her flogging singing career. Then they got bored with each other. After some soul searching in Californ...

Midnight in Paris 2011 40 over years after Shammi Kapoor gyrated to the world through his signature dance moves in 'Evening in Paris', Woody Allen's handiwork of 'Midnight in Paris' made it to the Oscars. 'Midnight in Paris' is a typical Woody Allen movie with a rather timid male character trying make sense of life and is bullied upon to do things, like getting married, where to stay after marriage and take ridicules from the soon to be in-laws. Owen Wilson (Gil Pender), a dreamy screenwriter who is trying to write a novel and is hoping to hit it big. He is in Paris to gain inspiration for his writing just like the great writers did in the 20s. Writers always felt that Paris on the 20s was the place to be to churn out the creativity charms of a person. He secretly wished that he was living in that era. His fiancé meets up with a friend (a Mr Know-It-All) and his partner but Gil feels out of place as he is belittled more than once. Whilst walking b...