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Movie Notes: Alice

July 3rd, 2009

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Alice Tate (Mia Farrow), a wealthy but bored Manhattan housewife, contemplates leaving her husband (William Hurt) after some mysterious treatments by an acupuncturist.

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Movie Notes: Crimes And Misdemeanors

July 2nd, 2009

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Judah (Martin Landau) unsuccessfully tries to end an affair with stewardess Dolores (Anjelica Huston), who is increasingly getting out of hand and threatening to expose everything to his wife. Meanwhile, Cliff (Woody Allen) is filming a documentary starring his successful brother in law Lester (Alan Alda), and finding it to be extremely stressful.

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Movie Notes: Another Woman

July 1st, 2009

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Graduate school administrator Marion (Gena Rowlands) is writing a book, when she starts hearing the private confessions of patients in the neighboring psychiatrist’s office. She begins contemplating her marriage to Ken (Ian Holm) and former love, Larry (Gene Hackman).

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Movie Notes: September

June 30th, 2009

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Insular Lane (Mia Farrow) moves to a country house with her friend Stephanie (Dianne Wiest) and boisterous mother Diane (Elaine Stritch). Things become complicated when writer Peter (Sam Waterston) and French teacher Howard (Denholm Elliot) arrive - it’s soon clear that everyone is in love with everyone else. Soon, Lane’s dark past comes to the forefront once again.

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Movie Notes: Radio Days

June 29th, 2009

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A heartwarming nostalgia trip to World War II America when radio was a primary form of entertainment.

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Movie Notes: Hannah And Her Sisters

June 28th, 2009

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Hannah’s (Mia Farrow) husband Elliot (Michael Caine) initiates an affair with his sister-in-law Lee (Barbara Hershey). Meanwhile, Hannah’s hypochondrica ex-husband Mickey (Woody Allen) contemplates his own death, and other siter Holly (Diane Wiest) struggles to form an idenity for herself.

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Movie Notes: The Purple Rose Of Cairo

June 27th, 2009

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Waitress Cecilia (Mia Farrow) obsessively goes to movies to escape the dreariness of her marriage during the Great Depression. After watching The Purple Rose Of Cairo several times in one day, the character Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels) steps off the screen and into her life.

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Movie Notes: Broadway Danny Rose

June 27th, 2009

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Danny Rose (Woody Allen) is a borscht-belt theatrical agent managing C-list singer Lou (Nick Apollo Forte), whose girlfriend (Mia Farrow) Tina gets everyone in trouble with the Mafia.

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Movie Notes: Zelig

June 25th, 2009

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Documentary profiling Zelig (Woody Allen), a human chameleon, who takes on the personality and appearance of those in his immediate vicinity.

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Movie Notes: A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy

June 24th, 2009

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Set in the early 1900s, Nutty inventor Andrew (Woody Allen) invites several couples to a summer party at his house. Hilarity ensues.

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