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Synopsis: Renowned filmmaker Sandy Bates is in a professional transition, directing largely comedies early in his career now wanting to direct more serious movies so that he can explore the meaning of life, most specifically his own. Most are fighting him all along the way, including the movie going public, who continually tell him that they love his movies especially the earlier funny ones, to studio executives who are trying to insert comic elements wherever possible into his current movie in production. He reluctantly agrees to attend a weekend long film festival of his movies. Despite the throng of requests for his time, he is further able to reflect on his life as he addresses the questions at the post screening Q&A sessions. He also reflects specifically on his love life as his current girlfriend, married Isobel, shows up unexpectedly, and as he starts to fall for festival attendee Daisy - at the festival with her Columbia professor boyfriend, Jack Abel - who reminds him of Dorrie, a neuro
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Woody Allen
Production: United Artists
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
PG
Year:
1980
89 min
1,749 Views


Your English is perfect. Don't worry.

Whats the matter? You sound...

You want me to call you

back? Can you not talk?

All right, I'll call you back.

Three little words

Oh, what I'd give for that wonderful phrase

To hear those three little words

That's all I'd live for the rest of my days

And what I feel in my

heart they tell sincerely

No other words can tell it half so clearly

Three little words Eight little letters

Which simply mean I love you

What were you trying to say in this picture?

I was just trying to be funny.

Do you find it very hard to direct yourself?

Hard? No. No, I just have

to resist the temptation

to give myself too many extreme close-ups.

Have you studied filmmaking in school?

No, no, I didn't study anything

in school. They studied me.

I understand you studied

philosophy at school.

No, that's not true. I did take...

I took one course in existential

philosophy at New York University.

And on the final, they gave me 10 questions.

And I couldnt answer a

single one of them, you know.

I left them all blank. I got 100.

Oh, you are marvelous.

You are a genius and...

Good questions. Didn't you think so?

You handled them beautifully.

You're a genius.

One of the most intelligent

films I've seen in many years.

- Can I get a photo, Mr. Bates?

- There he is.

Hi! I just think you're great, and I

just wanted to give you this record.

I'm with the Tuberculosis Association.

- We're doing a benefit...

- There you are. There you are.

Mr. Bates! Mr. Bates, may I

have your autograph, please?

If I could just have 10 minutes of your time,

I'd like to ask you a couple of questions.

- Sure.

- Thank you very much.

I'm doing this piece on the shallow

indifference of wealthy celebrities.

And I'd like to include you. I'd

like to include you in my piece.

I'm starving.

Sandy, there's a phone call for you.

Let me show you where the phone is.

I'm Dr. Paul Pearlman.

I did a paper on you and your

films at a psychiatric convention.

Oh, really?

It was very well received,

youll be happy to know.

- I'm glad to hear that.

- For my own records, tell me,

have you ever had intercourse

with any type of animal?

- With an animal? No, I never... Hello?

- Dr. Pearlman, please!

- Yeah?

- Very good.

- Thank you very much.

- Keep up the good work, and good luck.

- No, I don't think that's fair.

- Mr. Bates, can I have a picture of you?

Over here, Mr. Bates. Thank you so

much. One picture. One more picture.

No, I don't want him to touch the film.

Tell him to come up here

tomorrow and well talk about it.

They can't recut my film.

My name is Claire Schaeffer.

I do work with the blind, and we

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