The Woody Allen Collection, Set 2 (Shadows and Fog / September / Crimes and Misdemeanors / Another Woman / Alice)
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Actor: Denholm Elliott, Dianne Wiest, Elaine Stritch, Martin Landau, Mia FarrowDirector: Woody Allen
Brand: MGM
Writer: Woody Allen
Producer: Charles H. Joffe
Producer: Gail Sicilia
Producer: Helen Robin
Producer: Jack Rollins
Producer: Jane Read Martin
Producer: Joseph Hartwick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 459 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-05
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Woody Allen Collection, Set 2 (Shadows and Fog / September / Crimes and Misdemeanors / Another Woman / Alice)
DVD Review: Woody Allen's "serious" period makes for some good films.
Summary: 5 Stars
Hi there. My name is Marc-David Jacobs and I wsa the first person to review the original set of Woody Allen DVDs last year and I figured that, since no one has taken to reviewing this upcoming new set, I would. For those of you who have read the earlier review, I finally broke down and bought a player JUST so I could watch all of the wonderful new Woody Allen DVDs I had! Well, this second set contains Woody Allen's films in the five year period between "Radio Days" in early 1987 and "Husbands And Wives" in 1992, Woody decided to make five films with either completely humorless Bergmanesque cinematography (i.e., "September") and plots or films with an overall feeling of such (i.e., "Crimes And Misdemeanors"), save for "Oedipus Wrecks," a third of "New York Stories," which also had short films by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Interestingly enough, the bordering years, 1987 and 1992, are the only years in which Allen released two of his own films in the same year, so these are kind of a set of their own, as they have been collected in here. I think these are the only films of his that contain an actual sense of FOREBODING. Sure, "Interiors" is incredibly claustrophobic and dramatically wonderful in it's storytelling and "Husbands And Wives" is a marvelous serious drama, but neither really has the sense of disaster that these have. Perhaps why few people went to see them. The period started with what I consider to be Woody's most serious piece ever, "September" (1987). The cold interaction between these six people in a Vermont countryside set to the pervasive Mendelsohnn theme make for a very great dramatic study. "Another Woman" (1988) is not as serious as "September," but is probably his very best "Bergman" piece ever, even using Bergman's cinematographer Sven Nykvist himself. This is a study of only one person, a woman who's above average life takes a turn for the worse when she discovers her husband is seeing the mistress of the title, amongst other things. "Crimes And Misdemeanors" (1989) is the best-known and most well-recieved film of this period. Martin Landau, Alan Alda and others bring a great quality to this split-screen story of two apparently unrelated people, one of whom, Landau, is the Bergman aspect. His life has been turned upside-down as his long-time mistress threatens to reveal their secret to his wife. Meanwhile, Allen is beset by a hilarious moral dilemma when he is asked to make a biography of jaded Hollywood personality Alda. And, of course, both stories come together at the end (see the cover of the DVD). "Alice" (1990) is the third in this inner trio of extramarital movies which features, for once, the woman (of course played by Mia Farrow [who is in all of these movies, the previously mentioned "Husbands And Wives" being her last with Allen]) thinking about the not-so-unthinkable. However, the moral dilemma placed here is not taken as seriously as Alice visits a Chinese herbalist who seems to have a few good tricks up his sleeves. Chaos ensues, as they say. Finally, we come to "Shadows And Fog," a very dark film, but only in the cinematographic sense. The story focuses around Allen who is divided between mobs in the city trying to find a very ominous killer who always seems to be one step ahead of everyone, causing each group to believe things about the others and about each other. In any other hands, this could be a straight drama, with the vigilante mobs like something out of "Frankstein" or "M" abducting the unwilling helper Allen (who very much resembles Joseph K in Kafka's "Der Prozess") to be either with them or against them. However, if Woody Allen's playing Joseph K, we suddenly have a very comedic piece, with only bits and pieces of the dramas of the others. Incidentally, this movie was adapted from Woody's one-act play "Death," which is anthologized in "Without Feathers," for those who would like to read it. After this stint (some would say "stunt"), Woody resumed his "normal" films with such gems as "Everyone Says I Love You" and "Deconstructing Harry." However, what I'm really waiting to see on DVD are Woody's films between this set and the previous set, from "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" on through "Radio Days." This, I believe, has got to be Woody's most creative period, spawning such oddly different films as the mockumentary "Zelig," the remincent "Broadway Danny Rose," one of Allen's funniest comedies ever and certainly Mia Farrow's best role in just about ANY film and the list goes on. As soon as those are release, every film directed by Woody Allen will be available on DVD, save "Husbands And Wives" and "New York Stories." However, since "Husbands And Wives" is available on VHS for the time being and "Oedipus Wrecks" is only a third of the other, what I'm really waiting for are these films, very few of which are even available on tape (just about everything except the enduring "Crimes And Misdemeanors" [the only one out of all has been out of print for years). So go out and get these films when they're released and especially get Set 3, set for release in about a year. And, while you're at it, go see "The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion" Woody's latest, which is being released August 15th at a theater near you! See you next year!
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