{"id":15523,"date":"2012-01-26T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=15523"},"modified":"2020-03-16T21:28:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:28:48","slug":"midnight-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/01\/26\/midnight-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

America’s greatest film maker.<\/i><\/p>\n

If you don’t already know that Woody Allen is America’s greatest film maker, then it’s high time you took your Spielberg schmaltz<\/i>-blinkered saccharine brain and aired it out a bit. Allen seems to have moved much of his film making to Europe in recent years (hardly surprising after all those years in a nation which denigrates intellect as ‘elitism’ and puts down our best and brightest as ‘geeks’ and ‘nerds’) with such movies as Everyone Says I Love You<\/a>, the finest musical (with ‘Chicago’) of recent years, Match Point<\/a>, (a fine society murder-thriller), Vicki, Christina, Barcelona<\/a> (the story of a muse, an electric Pen\u00e9lope Cruz) and, most recently, Midnight in Paris<\/a>, a charming piece of nostalgia and whimsy rivaled only by his own Manhattan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Allen has long commanded access to the very best actors – who wouldn’t<\/i> want to act for the American master? – and the cast of Midnight in Paris is as good as it gets. His recreation of Gertrude Stein<\/a>‘s salon of writers and painters of the 1920s is perfection itself. There is no better way of illustrating this by comparing the photographs of a leading American member of that group, the surrealist photographer Man Ray, with Allen’s realizations in the movie. Man Ray and the great Lee Miller<\/a> were lovers at the time.<\/p>\n

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Hemingway by Man Ray and by Woody Allen<\/i>
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Dali by Man Ray and by Woody Allen.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

The actors in the Allen movie, shown above, are Corey Stoll and Adrien Brody, respectively.<\/p>\n

You don’t have to love Paris to love the movie, but if you are a Francophobe it beats me why you are reading my blog.<\/p>\n

It’s not enough to be an original thinker with a fertile mind. Those alone are not prescriptions for success. A solid work ethic is the glue that binds, and you can read all about Allen’s here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For Allen’s take on Manhattan’s architecture, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

America’s greatest film maker. If you don’t already know that Woody Allen is America’s greatest film maker, then it’s high time you took your Spielberg schmaltz-blinkered saccharine brain and aired it out a bit. Allen seems to have moved much of his film making to Europe in recent years (hardly surprising after all those years … Continue reading Midnight in Paris<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-photographers","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35128,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15523\/revisions\/35128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}