Sweet and Lowdown
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Movie Reviews of Sweet and Lowdown
Movie Review: chicago, perhaps
Summary: 4 Stars
you would enjoy a motion picture a bit more suited towards your own musical taste.may i suggest COYOTE UGLY or CANT STOP THE MUSIC.Movie Review: Great movie ruined by Woody Allen's commentary
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is an absolutely great character story with Samantha Morton somehow stealing the show though she doesn't have a line of dialogue. Sean Penn was great also. I was really getting into the movie when all of a sudden -
- Woody Allen jumps in and interrupts the story with totally useless commentary. He was commenting on the things the movie was showing quite well. ... Then some music expert jumps in and tells us what a great musician Emmett Ray was. Like we couldn't tell from the music he was playing throughout the movie.
So, then this great movie continues, and I start getting back into things, when Woody Allen has to jump in again and start talking at the camera. Ugghhh. What's the problem with showing the story, not telling it to us?
Finally, get back to the story. Just when things get great again, it's jerked back to Woody Allen looking confused and explaining what we just saw, or introducing another version of what might have happened.
Then, at the end, the last scene of Ray is him smashing his guitar and being angry. Jump to Woody Allen who then tells us "No one really knows what happened to him. Some say he went to Europe, some say he didn't."
This has to be the worst ending possible for a documentary. It was almost like Allen was too lazy to research his study and tell us definitively what happened to him.
Overall, if the movie hadn't been chopped up with totally useless commentary and just showed us the story of Emmett Ray, it would have been at 4.5 star movie. But the commentary wrecks the flick's flow at the worst times - usually climaxes, when you're dying to see what'll happen next, but you're pulled into a contemporary studio for observation from someone, so I can't give it more than a three.
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Movie Review: I liked it better when it was La Strada
Summary: 3 Stars
For those who didn't know: "Stardust Memories" was Woody's take on "8 1/2", "Celebrity" seemed to me like "La Dolce Vita" and this film seems like "La Strada." In my humble opinion, "La Strada" was one of the greatest films of all time. So, if you appreciated the sentiment in "Sweet and Lowdown," I recommnend highly its mentor: "La Strada." All in all, I prefer Woody when he's original. For instance, "Annie Hall", "Husbands and Wives," or am I missing something?Movie Review: Penn and Morton are terrific!
Summary: 3 Stars
A minor rebound after last year's disappointing "Celebrity", but still fairly insubstantial compared to the Woodman's past works. The best part of the film is Samantha Morton as the film picks up everytime she's on screen. Her hot/cold, bittersweet relationship with Emmet Ray is the highlight of the film. Penn also does a great job picking at the guitar. Looked like a real pro.Movie Review: Another interesting failure for Woody
Summary: 3 Stars
This film starts out well, and is excellent much of the time, particular the scenes with Penn and Samantha Morton (whose performance is Oscar-worthy, but eventually slides back into the same old Woody Allen stick that hasn't really seemed fresh for at least a decade of films. Unless you are a hardcore Allen fan, this movie will probably lose you about halfway through,