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Top 10 Undervalued Woody Allen Films

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Top 10 Undervalued Woody Allen Films

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Best Soundtracks Of 2011

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Best Soundtracks Of 2011

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Drew Friedman, minus liver spots, draws for Mr. Media viewers! (Video Interview)

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Best Films of 2011...So Far

We are half way through the year and award season is nearly upon us. Usually, the... more

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The Real Kings of Comedy

They say that stand up comedy has been around since the 1800’s but it never... more

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Midnight in Paris

Who hasn’t been lured to Paris because of the romance of a bygone era—a... more

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The Woodman Gets Nostalgic

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Frat Boy At the Movies: Midnight in Paris

The frat boy takes a look at the latest movie from Woody Allen and Owen Wilson.

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Midnight In Paris: Nostalgia Rules

What the 20's in Paris might have felt like.

I have been feeling very nostalgic lately. We are living in a time of war, poverty, obesity, adultery, mediocrity, obsession with celebrity, and the Tea Party. It reminds me of that scene in The Ten Commandments when Moses comes down with the tablets only to find the “chosen people” have completely run amuck. Donald Trump is like that Edward G. Robinson character, hyping up the flock to pray to the golden calf, a.k.a. Kim Kardashian. Who have we become? Why are like sheep to the slaughter of our own best intentions? Eh, this is not for now, but I did thoroughly enjoy Midnight In Paris, Woody Allen‘s new movie. Midnight In Paris actually brought me back to a time that I long for. Unlike this movie, where the lead character romances the 1920′s in Paris and is whisked back to that time, through emotional time travel, I long for the late 1970′s in New York City. As in the case of the film’s star, Owen Wilson, whose present has him conflicted with certain life choices, my time now has me scratching my head. Besides, the 2010′s are not as fabulous as the 1970′s.

Midnight In Paris is delicious and as good as the movies that Woody Allen made in the 1970′s, back when people ran in droves to see them. Last night’s screening across the street from Bloomingdale’s was a throw back to when I would schlepp in from New Jersey to see his films at the Baronet – Coronet Theaters. I thought back to Sleeper, circa 1975. Like Sleeper, our hero in the film is thrust into another world, where his modern day sensibilities serves as a guidepost to what life is like or, rather, can be like. In Sleeper, Miles Monroe (Allen) is thrust into the future, where as in Midnight, Gil (Owen Wilson) keeps returning to the past. Wilson is perfect as a new version of Woody Allen from the 70′s. He has that same lovable, awkward contradiction of insecurity and confidence wrapped up in one, just unsure of his next steps. What I loved most about Midnight was how simple it was, complete with a happy ending. And not the Arnold Schwarzenegger kind, but a real happily ever after one. Like movies from the good old days, when films did not HAVE to be fast NOR furious and pirates sang along with Judy Garland. And in the case of horror, as with Hitchcock, a mere shadow could scare the beJesus out of a packed theater rather than have you watch someone getting sliced in half. Woody Allen has tapped in the zeitgeist, mine anyway, but surely I am not alone in wanting to go backwards as opposed to evolving as a society. Because if you call this evolution, well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.

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The 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival Kicks Off With Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight In Paris’ – PHOTOS

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Top 10 Woody Allen Films

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HOT Hollywood Birthdays December 1, 2010

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Woody Allen Wants to make Obama Dictator in Chief

Erich Graetz, owner and manager of the producer of kerosene lamps and electrical systems Ehrich & Graetz AG, had inherited the company from his father Max Graetz in 1936. Max and his two sons, Erich and Fritz, were among the critics of the Weimar Republic. Ehrich & Graetz AG profited much under Hitler’s regime. The company employed the services of about 1,100 forced laborers during the war, one third of them Jewish. In 1943 the SS took the Jewish workers to the concentration camps. Erich only complained about the loss of the labor of the “non-Aryans.”

Erich Graetz is better known for his exclamation in the early 1930s, “Ist Hitler nicht ein famoser Kerl?” (“Isn’t Hitler a fabulous guy?”) He supported Hitler’s ascent to power, and he took advantage of the forced labor provided by the dictatorship government of the Nazi Party. Hitler was just fabulous, wasn’t he? He had to have dictatorial powers. That’s what Germany needed. How else would Germany be restored to power?

Of course, we know what Hitler brought to Germany—utter devastation, destruction, and suffering. Erich and Fritz lost all they had. They could have foreseen as early as 1936 what was coming. But they were deceived by their blind worship of Hitler. After all, wasn’t he ein famoser Kerl?

Woody Allen lived his whole life quite comfortably in a nation that more than any other nation on the planet had liberty and justice for all, embedded in its Constitution, and in the very fabric of its society. He had the freedom to make films that most Americans resented, and also movies that didn’t necessarily agreed with the views of the political elite at the time. He could say things that so many of us disagreed with, and he could get away with them. There were no “crystal nights” at Woody Allen’s shop, and he wasn’t sent to a concentration camp. Even when he married his very young stepdaughter, the court didn’t give him what he deserved. He got away with much.

But these days Woody Allen is of the opinion, that Obama is just brilliant, and he must be given dictatorial powers. Obama just must be allowed to force the majority of us Americans to do what he wants. We shouldn’t be allowed to make our own decisions, or have it our own way. We should be under dictatorial rule of this fabulous president. Obama must be given the power to impose “crystal nights” on the rest of us and send us to concentration camps if he considers such actions good for the nation.

In short, after taking advantage of the liberties in America, Woody Allen wants to make sure that other Americans are deprived of that privilege. Why? Because for Woody Allen, Obama ist ein famoser Kerl.

Just like Erich Graetz 70 years ago, Woody Allen is intelligent enough to foresee what would be coming to America if Barrack Hussein Obama was given dictatorial powers. The Founders of this country warned against it, and we have the examples of so many other “brilliant dictators” in other countries in recent history. But just like Erich Graetz, Woody Allen is blinded by his own primitive tribal superstition that blocks his brain and wouldn’t allow him to see the irrationality of his own words. The Apostle Paul says in his epistle to the Romans about folks like Woody Allen, that,

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures (Rom. 1:21–23).

In its flight from God and His Law, the Left didn’t find freedom from religious beliefs, neither did it find wisdom. To the contrary, the Left rejected the ordered house of the Christian religion only to live in the jungle of primitive creature worship and superstition; and instead of wisdom, it got irrationalism and stupidity. Woody Allen is an end product of this process.

Irrational superstitious creature-worshippers do not build civilizations. They can only live as parasites in a civilization created by those who worship the Creator. Woody Allen’s faith is dying across America, and his brilliant famoser Kerl will go down in history as the worst President America ever had. God is not to be mocked.Erich Graetz, owner and manager of the producer of kerosene lamps and electrical... more