“Why is life worth living?…”
Groucho Marx; Willie Mays; the second movement of the Jupiter Symphony; Louis Armstrong’s recording of Potato-head Blues; Swedish movies; Sentimental Education by Flaubert; Marlon Brando; Frank Sinatra; those incredible apples and pears by Cézanne; the crabs at Sam Wo’s; and, of course, Tracy’s face.
Love and Art. It’s personal, it’s subjective, it’s tricky.
Manhattan. “Boy. This is really a great city. It’s really a knock out.”
How to do a montage right. In honor of Woody Allen’s latest picture premiering at Cannes today (w/ great reviews already), Midnight in Paris, let’s remind ourselves of the master writer/filmmaker’s best. Opening sequence of Manhattan, dir. Woody Allen, 1979.
