{"id":15575,"date":"2017-03-17T03:03:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T07:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=15575"},"modified":"2017-03-17T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:58:36","slug":"woody-allen-goes-for-drama-with-interiors-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=15575","title":{"rendered":"Woody Allen goes for Drama with Interiors (1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you’ve made SERIOUS DRAMA, big actor heads are not necessary for primary poster art.<\/p><\/div>\n

Part if this week\u2019s catch-up includes another Woody Allen gem that not unlike Stardust Memories<\/a><\/strong> (1980), divided critics, and perhaps left a few loyal fans puzzled by his attempt to drift from his comfort zone \u2013 or rather their<\/em> comfort zone.<\/p>\n

Interiors<\/a><\/strong> (1978) feels like a filmed Bergman play as filtered and revised with Allen\u2019s own sensibilities, and it\u2019s maybe 50% successful in achieving a balance. When there\u2019s a fumble, one\u2019s likely to grumble along the lines of \u2018Oh please<\/em>,\u2019 but even in those weaker moments the performances are strong. Most of the attention \u2013 awards, nominations, and praise \u2013 went to the film\u2019s older actresses, Geraldine Page and Maureen Stapleton \u2013 but Diane Keaton was rightfully singled out by a few for a natural yet intense performance.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also great to see versatile Mary Beth Hurt (Chilly Scenes of Winter<\/a><\/strong>) in her feature film debut playing the middle, plain, perpetually marginalized sister, which makes for a striking contrast to her later role as the cannibalistic mother in Bob Balaban\u2019s dark nutbar comedy Parents<\/strong> (1989).<\/p>\n

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Diane Keaton and Richard Jordan being VERY\u00a0SERIOUS.<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s also a treat to see Richard Jordan (Kamouraska<\/strong>, Logan\u2019s Run<\/strong>, Raise the Titanic<\/strong>, The Hunt for Red October<\/strong>) in a small supporting role, giving Allen\u2019s clich\u00e9d angry, drunk writer palpable emotional depth by underplaying yet adding somber resonance when Allen\u2019s words aren\u2019t up to par.<\/p>\n

Maybe Interiors<\/strong> deserves a few more viewings \u2013 it\u2019s billing as Allen\u2019s \u2018first drama\u2019 comes with a lot of expectations that can\u2019t be met in one sophomore sitting \u2013 but Twilight Time\u2019s Blu-ray brings out another of the auteur\u2019s films which, for whatever bizarre reason, major studios have either allowed to tumble into out of print status, or not bothered to release on Blu. It\u2019s a funny conundrum for the prolific Allen, because most of Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s films return to DVD and Blu in some form, but Allen\u2019s work, once treated to deluxe boxed sets by MGM\/UA and Miramax, is available in a kind of scattering of titles from each decade of work, which bodes well for indie labels more than keen to give M.I.A. titles the kid glove treatment.<\/p>\n

Coming next:<\/em> utterly ridiculous smut.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Review of Woody Allen’s first formal drama on Blu, the Bergmanesque Interiors (1978) from Twilight Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3520,2562,2563,4995,4985,4999,2784],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Interiors1978_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-43d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15575"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15603,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions\/15603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}