Arrow Academy s third Woody Allen collection spans 1986-91 and the bulk of his work with Mia Farrow, who is featured in all seven of these films. They start with the much-loved family saga Hannah and Her Sisters, a warm and witty return to Allen s beloved Manhattan, and the nostalgic Radio Days, a collection of stories from the time of Allen s own 1930s/40s childhood. More sombre fare comes with the Chekhov-influenced ensemble piece September and Another Woman, with a tour de force role for Gena Rowlands as a middle-aged philosophy professor whose accidental eavesdropping makes her reassess her life. And with Crimes and Misdemeanors, Allen made one of his greatest films, a multi-layered and almost Dostoyevskian reflection on guilt that also finds room for some of his funniest one-liners. The box concludes with two of his more fantastical films, the romantic comedy Alice, in which relationships are guided with the aid of mysterious invisibility herbs , and the black-and-white, star-studded Shadows and Fog, an homage to Kafka and German Expressionism that was based on Allen s own one-act play Death. Collection includes: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Radio Days (1987) September (1987) Another Woman (1988) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Alice (1990) Shadows and Fog (1991)
G**4
Excellent later period Allen
Never written a review before but felt compelled to write this as nobody else had! The 7films here include the last he made with Farrow before their relationship went pear shaped. Two of his best films are included - Hannah and her Sisters & Crimes and Misdemeanours- along with 2 of his serious movies and 3 others which although not Allen classics are worth a viewing. Another great blu Ray box set.
H**M
Seven films, not a dud amongst them
Here’s the problem I have, at the time of writing, with saying anything about Woody Allen’s films. It is a dilemma that I probably share with thousands of others. On the one hand, I am a Woody Allen fan. I always have been. On the other he has been the recent subject of a single repeated allegation of child abuse from a single source. This allegation concerns an alleged event that occurred sometime in the period in which these films were made.Woody Allen said that the charges had been dismissed in court 25 years ago, and a handful of ‘A’ listers like Diane Keaton and Alec Baldwin have come out and supported Woody Allen.What has all of this got to do with this collection of Woody Allen films? Nothing if the charge is false. But, leaving all of that to one side, and taking the films in this collection purely at face value, it’s a comfortable 5 stars from me.
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